Tracklist:
Beautiful Things
Plain Jane
Breaking Me Down
I Could Save the World
Fly
Tender Lights
I'll Surrender
Whatever
Fallin' Through the Pages
Back from the Blue
Instant Karma
All My Favorite Things
UPC: 659467712720Label: Wicked Cool RecordRelease Date: 7.31.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
Chlorine Fumes
Twisted Charm Honey
Caravelle
Flor en la Sombra
Marching Clocks
Circular Rites
Oruga Encantada
Sur la Lune
Brücke
Photochromic Gaze
Rising Year
UPC: 3516628511912Label: Born Bad RecordsRelease Date: 8.14.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
Boa Viagem
Maria
Encontrei Amor
Beira Mar
Late Night
Brazilian Spirit
Saudade
Baiamba
UPC: 5065026483034Label: Far Out RecordingsRelease Date: 7.24.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
Back to Nature
Brand New Life
Visitors
I Can't Escape Myself
Goodbye to Love
Rock on
Smoke and Mirrors
Day Breaks, Night Heals
Gentle on My Mind
Richard!
End Credits
UPC: 5061017257448Label: London RecordsRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: CD
Parallel Stride is the fourth solo album from Doug Gillard, the Ohio-bred, New York-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Guided by Voices, Nada Surf, Death of Samantha, and Cobra Verde. Long celebrated as one of American indie rock's most distinctive guitarists, Gillard's solo work centers on timeless songwriting values: hook-driven melodies, emotionally resonant lyrics, and finely crafted performances. Across eleven engaging tracks - including "Face Of Smiles," "Yes, She Loves Me," and "Lost Alarmists" - Parallel Stride delivers vivid wordplay and magnetic melodicism, often summed up by the shorthand "Wire backing Paul McCartney." Recorded in the New York City area with co-producers Tom Beaujour and Travis Harrison, the album stands among the most compelling work of Gillard's career.
Tracklist:
Face Of Smiles
Parallel Stride
Yes, She Loves Me
Until I See You Again
Lost Alarmists
New Vista
My Friends
Saving My Life Every Day
Western Or Larabee
Cannons
She Showed Me The Earth
UPC: 727252324615Label: Dromedary RecordsRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: CD
Blizzard is the striking debut album by Dove Ellis. Featuring the singles 'To The Sandals,' 'Love Is,' 'Pale Song,’ and ‘Heaven Has No Wings.’ Dove Ellis opened for Geese on their US tour last year.The album received press pick up from Americana Highways, Pitchfork, The Guardian, The Line Of Best Fit, DIY Magazine, Paste Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Stereogum, NPR and more.The album was recorded in London and Liverpool with mixing by Sophie Ellis and Andrew Sarlo.
Tracklist:
Little Left Hope
Pale Song
Love Is
When You Tie Your Hair Up
Jaundice
Heaven Has No Wings
It Is a Blizzard
Feathers, Cash
Away You Stride
To the Sandals
UPC: 198704936890Label: Black Butter RecordsRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: CD
Down's third album, Over The Under, originally released in 2007, hit #26 on the US Billboard charts and #46 on the UK charts. 19 years later, this newly remastered edition comes with a bonus track called Invest In Fear (only on CD and streaming platforms) which was previously unreleased on streaming and unavailable on any physical product in the US. With a bunch of 2026 festival dates booked already, look for more activity this year and possibly a new record.
Tracklist:
Three Suns and One Star (Remaster 2026)
The Path (Remaster 2026)
N.O.D. (Remaster 2026)
I Scream (Remaster 2026)
On March the Saints (Remaster 2026)
Never Try (Remaster 2026)
Mourn (Remaster 2026)
Beneath the Tides (Remaster 2026)
His Majesty the Desert (Remaster 2026)
Pillamyd (Remaster 2026)
In the Thrall of It All (Remaster 2026)
Nothing in Return (Walk Away) [Remaster 2026]
Invest in Fear (Bonus Track) [Remaster 2026]
UPC: 4065629760731Label: Nuclear BlastRelease Date: 6.19.26Format: CD
Downtown Boys have pushed relentlessly forward as an artistic and political project since their founding. Singer Victoria Marie and guitarist/singer Joey La Neve DeFrancesco first met at union meetings while working together at a hotel in Providence, RI, writing many of the band's early songs about labor organizing and exploitative workplaces. The quintet is completed by Joe DeGeorge (sax/synth), Mary Jane Regalado (bass), and Joey Doubek (drums). Over years of touring, and three acclaimed albums, Downtown Boys have continued to grow as artists, musicians, and organizers. Now, the band has arrived with Public Luxury, an enthralling album that keeps politics front and center while summoning the band's most urgent and powerful sound to date. The definition of Public Luxury falls very much in line with that of the title of the second Downtown Boys LP, Full Communism. Straight up, Public Luxury means, "everything for everyone." It's the stubborn insistence that a better world is possible, while fully recognizing the horrors we witness daily, and the individual and collective responsibility to resist the nihilism and hopelessness we all feel. Sentiments like "everything for everyone," and "we will have it all" perfectly represent the cathartic, communal live experience this cadre of multi-instrumentalists create. These sentiments also encapsulate the inclusive, joyful sonic fusion that defines the album: anthemic punk and indie rock mix with Latin traditions, drum machines blend with acoustic drums, saxophones punctuate riffs, and layers of synths add flourishes from new-wave to industrial. The amount of ground covered on Public Luxury can't be overstated, and yet the album feels totally vital and cohesive. Public Luxury is a revisitation of the band's past for the sake of their future. It was co-produced by DeFrancesco with recording engineer and longtime Downtown Boys supporter Seth Manchester (Lambrini Girls, Lightning Bolt, Model/Actriz) at the Pawtucket, RI studio and arts space Machines With Magnets, not far from the band's first home of Providence, RI. Victoria Marie's grandmother-a monumental figure for the band throughout their existence-passed away in May of 2025, and her influence looms large over the album; the songs "No Me Jodas" and "Sirena" are crystallized representations of the love between a woman and her ancestor.Beyond the loss, rage and frustration of the present, Public Luxury points boldly towards a vibrant, open-hearted vision of both music and the world: "Our music is simply for anyone and everyone who believes in the new future we can make together," Victoria Marie declares. "A world that will be awkward, inconsistent, yet truly free when it comes to all that matters."
Tracklist:
No Me Jodas
The City Begins
Sirena
Yellow Sun
Viva la Rosa
Enemy Without
You're a Ghost
Albuterol
Mi Concha
Public Works
Public Luxury
UPC: 098787173321Label: Sub PopRelease Date: 6.26.26Format: CD
Downward’s self-titled LP returns in a deluxe vinyl edition or CD, now expanded with two new tracks: “Get Some” and “Drawl.” Released alongside the band’s signing to Pure Noise Records, this updated edition further cements Downward as one of heavy music’s most compelling new voices. A must-have for fans of emotionally charged post-hardcore, shoegaze, and alternative.
Tracklist:
Drawl
Get Some
Request Made
Wind Up
Absolute Value
Line
Darkscreen
Ibex
Out of Luck
Perfect Food
The Waltz
Rival
Leechy
UPC: 810540039374Label: Pure Noise RecordsRelease Date: 8.14.26Format: CD
Heavy Petting by Irish folk-psych group Dr. Strangely Strange returns for it's 55th anniversary in a newly expanded 2-CD edition that re-examines one of the era's most quietly distinctive folk-psych albums. Newly restored and carefully rebalanced from original sources, this edition presents the album in striking clarity, alongside additional studio recordings, contemporary radio performances, and rare live material from the period. Far from a historical footnote, Heavy Petting emerges as a singular snapshot of a band in motion-intimate, elusive, and increasingly recognized as an essential, if eccentric, artefact of the underground folk-psych canon.
Tracklist:
Ballad Of The Wasps
Summer Breeze
Kilmanoyadd Stomp
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
Sign On My Mind
Gave My Love An Apple
Jove Was At Home
When Adam Delved
Ashling
Mary Malone Of Moscow
Goodnight My Friends
Lady Of The Glen (Single Edit 1970 Mix)
Sweet Red Rape
Good Evening Mr. Woods
Horse Of A Different Hue
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo
Lady Of The Glen (Full Version 2007 Remix)
Jove Was At Home (Radio Session)
On The West Cork Hack (Radio Session)
Ashling (Radio Session)
Mary Malone Of Moscow (Radio Session)
Frosty Mornings (Radio Session)
Horse Of A Different Hue (Radio Session)
On The West Cork Hack (Radio Session)
Ballad Of The Wasps (Radio Session)
Sweet Red Rape (Radio Session)
When Adam Delved (Les Cousins '70)
On The West Cork Hack (Les Cousins '70)
Ballad Of The Wasps (Les Cousins '70)
Gave My Love An Apple (Take 1)
UPC: 601570655814Label: Think Like A Key RecRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: CD
Swedish gothic doom entity DRACONIAN is finally back! Their new studio album, In Somnolent Ruin, will creep its way from the artist’s spirit into the light of day on May 8, 2026 via Napalm Records. This promises to be one of the most personal records in the band’s discography, revealed through a dreamlike journey across nine tracks and the poetic lyricism of vocalist Anders Jacobsson. As a recurring theme, DRACONIAN explore Plato’s theory of the soul – an element that was not planned from the very beginning, but instead emerged organically during the creation. In 2022, the band announced the return of vocalist Lisa Johansson. Johansson had been the band’s vocalist for their first five records before leaving DRACONIAN in 2011 for personal reasons. In Somnolent Ruin marks her comeback.
Tracklist:
AWelcome Thy Arrow
A The Monochrome Blade
B Anima (feat. Daniel Änghede)
B The Face of God
C I Gave You Wings
C Asteria Beneath the Tranquil Sea
CCold Heavens
D Misanthrope River
D Lethe
UPC: 810210531146Label: NapalmRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: CD
"Straight up, no one is having more fun than me when we're up there!" beams DRAIN frontman Sammy Ciaramitaro, whose face is perpetually glued in a grin. For anyone that's seen the Santa Cruz hardcore firebrands live, there's no mistaking that fact. Drain isn't just a good time as Sammy presides over the chaos of stage diving bodies and mic-grabbing frontline; it's a party-and everyone is invited. (Dolphin shorts and boogie boards are optional but encouraged.) "The vibe of it is, enthusiastic, hectic," says the vocalist. "Five people deep singing and stagediving, then kids going berserk behind that. It's a great vibe and I think people pick up on that." That, in a nutshell is DRAIN. The trio inject a serious dose of relatability-not to mention catchiness-into hardcore's penchant for toughness and brutality on their new Epitaph album, "... IS YOUR FRIEND". Ciaramitaro's desperate, snotty howl rides roughshod over thrash-leaning riffage as rhythms bounce in a big way. If you're picturing the Pacific Ocean waves that rise and fall along the coastal town, occasionally violently so, you're not far off.
Tracklist:
Stealing Happiness from Tomorrow
Living in a Memory
Scared of Everything and Nothing
Nothing But Love
Can't Be Bothered
Loudest in the Room
Nights Like These
Who's Having Fun?
Darkest Days
Until Next Time
UPC: 045778812028Label: EpitaphRelease Date: 11.7.25Format: CD
DRAIN – the Santa Cruz, CA based hardcore band, whose energetic live shows have propelled them to peak underground popularity (during a global pandemic) and they are ready to break wide open in 2023.Living Proof is the band’s Epitaph Records debut and follow up to their 2020 breakout release, California Cursed. The new album is a testament to the hard work and heartfelt ethos that’s at the center of DRAIN’s good-time psyche. There are a couple surprises on the album. Rapper Shakewell appears on the track, “Intermission”. There’s also a cover of “Good, Good Things,” a nearly four-decade old melodic punk carol by the Descendents: slam-pit forebearers to DRAIN if there ever were any. “It’s crazy because the song’s been out like forty years, but lyrically it’s a DRAIN song!” exclaims vocalist Sam Ciaramitaro. “It just hits on everything that I love, that I’m about.”What Sammy’s about is plenty wholesome. “I hope with this record that when someone hears it, it gives them hope,” beams. “If we were able to get through the tough times, anyone can. I can’t wait to play these songs and hear a room full of people singing back to us. We’re what the title says, the Living Proof.”Produced by longtime friend and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Young (God’s Hate, Suicide Silence), then mixed by John Markson (Drug Church, Koyo), this is hardcore for everybody. “As the band gets bigger, I try and keep that feeling alive,” says the smiling singer. “Every night I set up the merch and run it until it’s time to play. I want to be the guy that everyone says hello to. I want to thank every single kid that comes out for being there.”
Tracklist:
Run Your Luck
FTS (Kys)
Devil's Itch
Evil Finds Light
Imposter
Intermission (Feat. Shakewell)
Weight of the World
Watch You Burn
Good Good Things
Living Proof
UPC: 045778783922Label: EpitaphRelease Date: 5.5.23Format: CD
An album announcement that is fifteen years in the making, GRAMMY®-winning, progressive music titans Dream Theater return with their sixteenth studio album, Parasomnia. The album marks the first album featuring the iconic lineup of vocalist James LaBrie, guitarist John Petrucci, bassist John Myung, keyboardist Jordan Rudess and drummer Mike Portnoy since 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings. The album was produced by Petrucci, engineered by James ‘Jimmy T’ Meslin, and mixed by Andy Sneap. Hugh Syme returns once again to lend his creative vision to the cover art. From the opening track “In The Arms Of Morpheus” to the closer of “The Shadow Man Incident,” Dream Theater returns with a collection of songs that showcase what has earned the band a loyal following for four decades. Clocking in at 71 minutes, Parasomnia takes the listener on a musical journey that has become synonymous with the band since the beginning of their career. The album is available on several formats including:Ltd Deluxe Box-set – includes Ltd Deluxe 2CD+Blu-ray Artbook (Incl. CD1: full album, CD2: instrumentals, Blu-ray: Dolby Atmos & 5.1 Surround Sound - mixed by Mark Gittins, High-Resolution Stereo Mixes, animated visualizers for each song created by Wayne Joyner, + 68-page booklet), Ltd Gatefold 180g Dark Green 2LP (feat. alternative cover artwork), Majesty-logo dream catcher keyring, Sleeping mask, Dream journal, 60x60cm poster & hand-numbered, foil-stamped certificate of authenticity. Limited to 3500 copies worldwide.Ltd Deluxe 2CD+Blu-ray Artbook - (Incl. CD1: full album, CD2: instrumentals, Blu-ray: Dolby Atmos & 5.1 Surround Sound - mixed by Mark Gittins, High-Resolution Stereo Mixes, animated visualizers for each song created by Wayne Joyner, + 68-page booklet)
Tracklist:
In the Arms of Morpheus
Night Terror
A Broken Man
Dead Asleep
Midnight Messiah
Are We Dreaming?
Bend the Clock
The Shadow Man Incident
UPC: 198028437424Label: Inside OutRelease Date: 2.7.25Format: CD
In 2024, GRAMMY®-winning, progressive music titans Dream Theater celebrated their 40th anniversary as a band, as well as the return of founding member Mike Portnoy, with a mammoth tour starting at London's legendary O2 Arena and continuing across the globe. 'Quarantième: Live à Paris' is a live presentation of that tour, filmed and recorded live in Paris in front of a huge audience at the Adidas Arena. Performing tracks from across the band's career, as well as material from their most recent acclaimed studio album, ‘Parasomnia’, this stunning audio/visual release documents a very special time in the band's history. Presented in several formats, with artwork by longtime collaborator Hugh Syme, 'Quarantième: Live à Paris' will be available as a Limited Deluxe 3CD+3Blu-ray artbook, including 68-pages of photos and artwork as well as bonus material on one of the Blu-ray discs. It will also be available as a Special Edition 3CD+2Blu-ray Digipak, Limited Deluxe 180g 4LP boxset & digitally. The blu-ray includes the full show with Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound, 24-bit high-resolution stereo audio.
Tracklist:
Metropolis Pt. 1 (Live a Paris 2024)
Overture 1928 (Live a Paris 2024)
Strange Deja Vu (Live a Paris 2024)
The Mirror (Live a Paris 2024)
Panic Attack (Live a Paris 2024)
Barstool Warrior (Live a Paris 2024)
Hollow Years (Live a Paris 2024)
Constant Motion (Live a Paris 2024)
As I Am (Live a Paris 2024)
Orchestral Overture (Live a Paris 2024)
Night Terror (Live a Paris 2024)
Under a Glass Moon (Live a Paris 2024)
This is the Life (Live a Paris 2024)
Vacant (Live a Paris 2024)
Stream of Consciousness (Live a Paris 2024)
Octavarium (Live a Paris 2024)
Home (Live a Paris 2024)
The Spirit Carries On (Live a Paris 2024)
Pull Me Under (Live a Paris 2024)
UPC: 198029631029Label: Century MediaRelease Date: 11.28.25Format: CD
Recorded in Denver, Colorado on June 15, 1981 and broadcast on European radio networks, this performance captures The Dregs during a period when their blend of rock, jazz fusion, and instrumental interplay had earned them a dedicated following. Led by guitarist Steve Morse, the band moves easily between intricate passages and driving rock sections, giving a clear picture of how their music translated to the stage. The result is a strong live snapshot of one of the most distinctive instrumental groups of the era.
Tracklist:
Divided We Stand
Pride O' The Farm
Twiggs Approved
Kat Food
Lime Rock
Odyssey
I'll Just Pick
Punk Sandwich
Rock and Roll Park
The Bash
Cruise Control
Rod and Steve Jam
Strawberry Fields - Hendrix Channeling - Cruise Control
Take It Off The Top
UPC: 630428400320Label: Audio Files RecordsRelease Date: 5.29.26Format: CD
On Dropkick Murphys' 13th studio album, the stories run deep, the memories push hard, and the joy remains infectious. Across the album’s 12 songs, the Boston band imbue the same kind of joy one might celebrate with family and friends. And even when the moods are sad and pensive, it’s hard not to feel personally invested in the band’s emotional spectrum. For The People shows courage and confidence, speaking up against the injustices happening in the United States, doing so with the strength and power that harkens back to Dropkick Murphys’ earliest punk rock roots. Whether it’s politics, family, friends or simply “life,” Dropkick Murphys continue to write music that regular people can identify with. The poignant album cover was created by renowned social/political artist Shepard Fairey's design firm Studio Number One, and the album was produced and mixed by longtime Dropkick Murphys collaborator Ted Hutt.For The People includes guest features form Mary Wallopers, The Scratch, Bill Bragg, and original band member Al Barr.
Tracklist:
Who'll Stand With Us?
Longshot (feat. The Scratch)
The Big Man
Chesterfields And Aftershave
Bury The Bones (feat. The Mary Wallopers)
Kids Games
Sooner Kill 'Em First
Fiending For The Lies
Streetlights
School Days Over (feat. Billy Bragg)
The Vultures Circle High (feat. Al Barr)
One Last Goodbye "Tribute To Shane" (feat. The Scratch)
Dropped on My Head
Take Your Bow
Straight Edge (I Liked You Better)
A Hero Among Many
Sirens
UPC: 5400863189556Label: Play It Again SamRelease Date: 10.10.25Format: CD
Dropkick Murphys history with Woody Guthrie dates back decades, from covering "Gonna Be A Blackout Tonight" on their 2003 album Blackout, to using some of Guthrie's writing about Boston in their immortal hit "I'm Shipping Up To Boston". But on their latest album, This Machine Still Kills Fascists, Dropkick Murphys have crafted an entire record around the seminal American folk icon, bringing Woody Guthrie's perennial jabs at life-many of which are from the 1940s and '50s-into the present, with the resulting music eerily relevant to today's world. The idea for the collaboration had been percolating between Guthrie's daughter Nora and the band for more than a decade, with Nora curating a collection of her father's never before-published lyrics for the band over the years. The result is one of Dropkick Murphys most unique releases, and the culmination of two like-minded rebellious artists collaborating, albeit nearly a century apart.
Tracklist:
Two 6's Upside Down
Talking Jukebox
Ten Times More
Never Git Drunk No More
All You Fonies
The Last One
Cadillac, Cadillac
Waters Are A'risin
Where Trouble Is at
Dig a Hole
UPC: 5400863089221Label: Dummy Luck MusicRelease Date: 10.7.22Format: CD
Boston punk veterans Dropkick Murphys link up with rising hardcore band Haywire for an 8-song LP built out of time spent touring together in Europe last fall. Each band contributes three original tracks, plus a cover of the other-Haywire taking on "The Boys Are Back," and Dropkick Murphys reworking "Always By My Side." The collaboration carried over to the stage during Dropkick Murphys' "For the People... In The Pit" St. Patrick's Day Tour which marked the bands 30th Anniversary run this February and March, where both bands shared the bill. A straightforward split that connects two generations of the same city and same scene.
Tracklist:
Citizen I.C.E.
Only The Strong
Solidarity
Always By My Side
NEW ENGLAND FOREVER
HANG UP THE TELEPHONE
THE HENCHMEN
THE BOYS ARE BACK
UPC: 5400863210991Label: Play It Again SamRelease Date: 6.26.26Format: CD
Drug Church is the logical limit of heavy alt. Like the Bee Girl from the Blind Melon video pitting hard for Helmet. Hit Your Head, recorded with Jay Maas, fully embraces the futureless aesthetic the band hinted at on previous records. This is worst-body-on-the-beach music. These are fired-from-your-window-tinting-job songs. An album for people on probation for crimes that aren't even cool. Big riffs and petty concerns.
Tracklist:
Banco Popular
Aleister
Aging Jerk
Bagged
Drunk Tank
Green Like Me
Park and Ride and Park and Ride
Hit Your Head, Greedy
Then Try
Big And Shitty
What
UPC: 810540039022Label: Pure NoiseRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: CD
Paul Walker is the debut studio album by American post-hardcore band, Drug Church. It features 10 tracks, including "Thinking About Joining Drug Church", "Reading Youtube Comments", and "Clifton Country".
Tracklist:
Thinking About Joining Drug Church
Reading YouTube Comments
Clifton Country
Shopping For a Belt
Donny's Woods
Learning To Speak British
Attending a Cousin's Birthday Party
Deconstructing Snapcase
Thrill Hill
Riding the Bus To Schenectady
UPC: 810540038995Label: Pure NoiseRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: CD
Drug Church, monsters of alt-rock, have weathered a year of dope shows and fan adoration since the release of their seminal punk masterpiece Paul Walker. Now, the chickens have come home to roost. The band has dedicated itself fully to a true ‘sophomore slump’ EP full of indulgent missteps and overreaching stabs at pop crossover. All that being told, they’re “the sickest band ever” has yielded real results.On Swell, Drug Church push their idiosyncratic blend of punk and alt to new heights of sick. Recorded with J. Robbins (every band, ever) in a big, professional studio, Swell delivers the biggest Drug Church sound to date. It’s pretty much the life-changer you assumed it would be.This new repress of the album includes remastered tracks.
Tracklist:
Does It Work?
Mall Swat
Work Shy
Ghost Dad
Zero Zero
But Does It Work?
MallSWAT
Work-Shy
Ghost Dad
Zero Zero
UPC: 810540038964Label: Pure NoiseRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: CD
Secret Love is the finest expression yet of the profound friendships that created Dry Cleaning. Here, the south London four-piece take their place in rock's avant garde, catalysing the Reaganite paranoia of early 80s US punk and hardcore with the dry strut of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian degradation, playful no wave and pastoral fingerpicking, while Florence's delivery, meticulously calibrated to her bandmates' soundscapes, asserts her in a lineage of spoken-word artists stretching from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings' Sue Tompkins.
Tracklist:
Hit My Head All Day
Cruise Ship Designer
My Soul / Half Pint
Secret Love (Concealed in a Drawing of a Boy)
Let Me Grow and You'll See the Fruit
Blood
Evil Evil Idiot
Rocks
The Cute Things
I Need You
Joy
UPC: 191400086821Label: 4adRelease Date: 1.9.26Format: CD
Sudanese-American artist Dua Saleh continues their boundless ascent with Of Earth & Wires, a resolutely warm, spiritual, and frenetic album exploring notions of home, humanity, and renewal.Featuring contributions from Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), aja monet, Gaidaa, and more, Saleh threads and deconstructs indie, R&B, and electronic pop with flashes of Sudanese folk, UK dance, and reggaeton, sounds intrinsic to their story, all held together by ambitious, future-facing production and clear-eyed lyricism.Saleh's soulful, gritty, shape-shifting style has found fans from The New York Times to NME, alongside their breakout role in the Netflix series Sex Education, making 2024's Ghostly International debut, I SHOULD CALL THEM, a proper arrival. The highly anticipated Of Earth & Wires responds to the moment as both a watershed in their career and an urgent dialogue with struggles faced on a universal level.In addition to their musical endeavors, Dua is a rising actor with a breakout role in the well-loved Netflix series Sex Education, where they starred a Cal Bowman for three seasons.
Tracklist:
5 Days
B r e a t h e
Flood (feat. Bon Iver)
Ca'llate
Firestorm
I Do, I Do
Keep Away (feat. Bon Iver)
Glow (feat. Bon Iver)
Speed Up
Anemic
ALL IS LOVE
UPC: 804297847627Label: Ghostly Int'lRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: CD
Duane Betts brings a coastal chill to his new album Isle of Hope, his first on Sun Records. Recorded in the Georgia lowcountry with GRAMMY-award winning producer Dave Cobb, Betts brings his unique blend of Southern rock and roots riffs to tracks co-written by Duane with Stoll Vaughan. Among all the fire on the fretboards is an intimate look at Duane’s sobriety, the loss of his father (Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers), and his decades on the road touring in the rock and jam band worlds.
Tracklist:
Heartache
Reckless
Into the Void
Pills ; Liquor
Silver Afternoon
Down to Houston
Best Wishes
Manatee River
Winners of War
Keep My Hands Clean
UPC: 015047817825Label: Sun RecordsRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: CD
Dummy is a rock band from Los Angeles comprised of Alex Ewell, Emma Maatman, Nathan O'Dell, and Joe Trainor. Their debut full-length Mandatory Enjoyment (Trouble in Mind) arrived in late 2021, becoming one of the year's sleeper hits and garnering praise from Pitchfork, Stereogum, and more. Coming out of lockdown, the band spent two years touring in support of the record, and it is this transformational experience that pulses through Free Energy, the exhilarating follow-up to Mandatory Enjoyment.A creatively restless band, Dummy (Ewell: drums, synths, bass; Maatman: vocals, synths, organ; O'Dell: vocals, guitar, organ; Trainor: guitar, bass, synths) wanted to get harder, dancier, more psychedelic for their next record. This meant applying explorative potentials of electronic textures to the elemental qualities of rock i.e. more vocal loops, sampling, more crazy rhythms, and playful synths - but make those samples of Trainor's guitar, let Maatman sing bolder, experiment with using cold mechanical elements in warm and sparkly ways, and lean harder into traditional-yet-still-awesome forms of rock guitar experimentation like feedback. The result is a record that celebrates music's ability to move the body, whether that be through a teeth-rattling wall of MBV-esque noise, a sticky pop chorus, or a joyous drum machine-or, if you're Dummy, maybe all of them in the same song.Pop music has always been a big part of Dummy's sound and it manifests in different ways all over Free Energy: the bubbly synth sequence made with a Korg EM1 popping all over "Nullspace," the revved-up drone-pop inspired by second and third wave Dunedin Sound bands like Look Blue Go Purple and Dadamah, and the motorik beat powering "Nine Clean Nails," perhaps the most confidently pop song Dummy has ever recorded and one that exemplifies Free Energy's balancing of live performance intensity with electronic augmentations, the dancier rhythmic elements created out of a drum loop recorded by Ewell while the bridge recalls the Feelies with call-and-response guitars from O'Dell and expressive vocals from Maatman.Free Energy also features guest appearances from Oakland-based saxophonist and electroacoustic artist Cole Pulice (Moon Glyph) contributes saxophone and wind synths and Jen Powers of Powers / Rolin Duo (Astral Editions, Feeding Tube Records).
Tracklist:
Intro-UB
Soonish.
Unshaped Road
Opaline Bubbletear
Blue Dada
Nullspace
Minus World
Dip In The Lake
Sudden Flutes
Psychic Battery
Nine Clean Nails
Godspin
UPC: 644110053527Label: Polyvinyl RecordsRelease Date: 7.31.26Format: CD
Los Angeles band Dummy refuses to slow down. After releasing two cassette EP's in 2020 (on Popwig and Born Yesterday respectively), Dummy's debut full-length album arrives via Chicago's Trouble in Mind Records. Employing pummeling guitars and celestial ambience within the same breath, the band folds a myriad of reference points into their drone-pop style. Influence from '60s melodicism and '90s UK noise pop can be found woven in with inspiration from spiritual jazz, Japanese new age, and Italian minimalism.Dummy dodges the brooding, dark, dramatic tropes of contemporary "artistic" music often found in punk, experimental, and electronic, instead insisting on joyous and euphoric sonic palettes. They refuse to be artistically stagnant, continuously shifting their approach to writing across 12 tracks. Shaped by performances around Los Angeles in 2019, songs like "Daffodils" and "Fissured Ceramics" feature relentless driving energy and ample psychedelic noise. Elsewhere, Dummy counterbalances the aggression with meditative synthscapes focused on sound design and studio experimentation, like on the motorik "X-Static Blanket". Finally, centerpiece "H.V.A.C." and the album's final track, "Atonal Poem", seek to synthesize these two poles, offering multi-part journeys through uncharted sonic territory.In contrast to blissed-out instrumentation, Dummy's sardonic lyricism examines "the burden of modern life, consumerism, environmental collapse, alienation, and other anxieties born out of living in this absurd moment in history". Interior design, marine pollution, the psychology of commercial architecture, and nuclear testing are all featured subjects. Dummy's restless creativity keeps them moving ever-forward, continuously challenging themselves and pushing their sound into exciting and exhilarating places. This is - as the album title suggests - "Mandatory Enjoyment".
Tracklist:
Protostar
Fissured Ceramics
Final Weapon
Punk Product #4
Cloud Pleaser
H.V.A.C.
Tapestry Distortion
Unremarkable Wilderness
Daffodils
X-Static Blanket
Aluminum In Retrograde
Atonal Poem
UPC: 644110053428Label: Polyvinyl RecordsRelease Date: 7.31.26Format: CD
Paper sleeve packaging. "Duran Duran" aka "The Wedding Album" released in 1993 was a return to form for the band, charting in the top10 on both the UK and US album charts and spawning the world-wide hit's 'Ordinary World' and 'Come Undone'. UPC: 5026854177816Label: Rhino / ParlophoneRelease Date: 4.10.26Format: CD
Duran Duran personified new wave for much of the mainstream audience. Their reputation was built through music videos, which accentuated their fashion-model looks and glamorous sense of style. Each video the group made was distinctive, incorporating a number of cinematic styles to showcase the band as either part of the jet-setting elite (""Rio"") or as worldly adventurers (""Hungry Like the Wolf""). Between 1982 and 1984, they rocketed from underground British post-punk sensations to teen idols. 1981, Duran Duranbecame the leaders of the new romantic movement, and media sensations in the British music and mainstream press. The group's popularity increased through it's cutting-edge music videos, especially the bizarre, racy clip for ""Girls on Film. "" the single became the group's first Top Ten hit, setting the stage for the fall release of it's eponymous debut album. Duran Duranreached number three upon it's release and stayed in the charts for 118 weeks.
Tracklist:
Drowning Man
Shotgun
Come Undone
Breath After Breath
U.M.F
Femme Fatale
None of the Above
Shelter
To Whom It May Concern
Sin of the City
UPC: 5026854177830Label: Rhino / ParlophoneRelease Date: 4.10.26Format: CD