Updates + Additions
New Releases
“I WANT MY LOVED ONES TO GO WITH ME,” Noah Cyrus – July 11
“All Things Light,” Cam – July 18
“After the Flood,” Caterpillars – July 25
“Revival,” Coffin Break – July 25
“Motel Du Cap,” Good Charlotte – Aug. 8
“Birdsong,” The Blow Monkeys – Aug. 15
“Blame It on the Weather,” Kerosene Heights – Aug. 15
“Interior Live Oak,” Cass McCombs – Aug. 15
“CiCi,” Ciara – new release date: Aug. 22
“decoder,” Glitterfox – Aug. 22
“Out of This Town,” Coyle Girelli – Aug. 29
“Without Further Ado, Vol 1,” Christian McBride Big Band – Aug. 29
“Animal Poem,” Anna Tivel – Aug. 29
“Gallows,” blessthefall – Sept. 5
“Leo Negro,” JayWood – Sept. 5
“Life On the Moon,” Modern Life Is War – Sept. 5
“Man of the North,” Liam St. John – Sept. 5
“Baby Man,” Fruit Bats – Sept. 12
“You’re Weird Now,” Guerilla Toss – Sept. 12
“Love, Darla,” Laveda – Sept. 12
“Songs No One Will Hear,” Arjen Anthony Lucassen – Sept. 12
“Season of the Peach,” Black Lips – Sept. 19
“The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World,” Motion City Soundtrack – Sept. 19
“Dance Called Memory,” Nation of Language – Sept. 19
“Bleeds,” Wednesday – Sept. 19
“Based on the Best Seller,” Sloan – Sept. 26
“Cut & Rewind,” Say She She – Oct. 3
New Music Friday: June 20, 2025
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Reissues
“More Balls to Picasso,” Bruce Dickinson – July 25
“Dizzy: The Medicine Label Anthology,” Green Apple Quick Step – July 25
“SOS Deluxe: LANA,” SZA – July 25
“Old Time Rock & Roll,” Dwight Twilley – Aug. 1
“All Things Bright and Beautiful: The UK Pop Explosion 1967-1969,” various artists – Aug. 22
“From ‘The Hellhole,'” Marshall Crenshaw – Aug. 29
“Songbird,” Waylon Jennings – Oct. 3
Music Books
“After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace,” Robert Polito – Jan. 27, 2026
“Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture,” Fab 5 Freddy – March 10, 2026
“Almost Grown: A New York Memoir,” Jesse Malin – April 7, 2026
Just Released
(Surprise releases + more)
“Kiss the Ring,” Dyer Davis (Florida rocker’s sophomore album; producer: Davis; Hear here; Big Wing Records)
“A Room With A Door That Closes,” Maiya Blaney (Hear here; Lex)
“Freeze Frame,” Ginger Winn (her second album; Hear here; Keep Good Company)
“sunniest of days,” Kimmortal (five-song EP; Hear here; Odd Doll Records)
“DECK: CLUBS,” Hallelujah The Hills (Hear here; Discrete Pageantry Records)
“Jupiter’s Dream,” JupiterReign (R&B artist’s debut album; Hear here; JupiterReignMusic)
“Shadows of Trust,” Ezra Veda (Amsterdam-based electronic artist’s debut album; Hear here; TCBYML)
“The Greatest Divide,” Marble Ghosts (five-song EP; Hear here; SelfMadeRecords)
Music does the talkin' / Says the things you wanna hear
New Songs Playlist
(Click on title to stream)
Bad, Dylan
Raincheck, Madison Bailey & KAIRO
Heard It in a Country Song, Russell Dickerson
Forsaken, Biohazard … their first single in 13 years
Plastic, Upchuck … produced by Ty Segall
Space to Be Free, Luke Marzec
Broke Down Lines, Left Lane Cruiser
Maxine, Coffin Break
State Trooper, Imaginary People
Dandelion, Peter Landi
Snakeskin, Tanner Adell
Broadside Ballad, Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country
Doomsday, Darcie Haven
All I Wanna Do, Jeff Vidov
Returning, Julian Cubillos
Foggy Like a Bladerunner, SORRYNOTSORRY
Take Me Alive, Tess & The Details
Pretend You Miss Me, Dillon Warnek
Oxygen, Isabella&Sebastian
DREAMCRUSHER, Allegories
I Quit, Foxx Bodies
Airplanes and Telephones, Copper Flats
Broken In Boots, Belles
Enemies, Caterpillars
Abandon, Blood Handsome
Rent Boy, Bylli Crayone
Today’s Birthdays
R.I.P.
Leroy Gibbons (Jamaican reggae singer)
Marjorie Grande (Ariana Grande’s grandmother became the most-senior artist to ever appear on the Billboard Hot 100 at age 98, featured on Ariana’s “Ordinary Things” in 2024)
Stacy Widelitz (co-wrote Patrick Swayze’s “She’s Like the Wind” and composed music for feature films)
Charlie Burrell (classical bass legend)
John Reid (Glasgow-born DJ and vocalist behind Nightcrawlers)
Steven Leckie (The Viletones)
Louis Moholo-Moholo (South African jazz drummer)
This Week In … 2003
(Source: Billboard)
No. 1 Song – “21 Questions,” 50 Cent feat. Nate Dogg
Biggest Movers Within the Top 40 – “Crazy in Love,” Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z (from No. 13 to. No. 8) and “Never Scared,” Bone Crusher feat. Killer Mike & T.I. (from No. 33 to No. 28)
Highest Debut (No. 67) – “Into You,” Fabolous feat. Tamia / Ashanti
Biggest Mover Within the Hot 100 – “Right Thurr,” Chingy (from No. 74 to No. 45)
Shoulda Been a Bigger Hit – “Concrete Angel,” Martina McBride
No. 1 Album – “How the West Was Won,” Led Zeppelin
In U.K.
(Source: Official Charts)
No. 1 Song – “Bring Me to Life,” Evanescence
No. 1 Album – “Hail to the Thief,” Radiohead
In Canada
(Source: Billboard)
No. 1 Song – “There, There,” Radiohead
No. 1 Album – “How the West Was Won,” Led Zeppelin
Music News
> Carol Kaye Declines Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction | Stereogum
> Janis Ian, Brenda Russell, Vicki Peterson & More to Be Honored by Women Songwriters Hall of Fame | Billboard
Tour + Festival News
> Addison Rae Announces World Tour Dates: North America, Europe, Australia | Variety
> The B-52’s, Devo to Embark on Co-Headlining Cosmic De-Evolution Tour | Rolling Stone
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