Another 31-day month’s in store for us. Feel free to jam the playlist below, request reviews from staff and contributors, let us know what you’re looking forward to this week (in music or otherwise), and remember… is a hot dog a sandwich?

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– List of Releases: August 7th, 2026 –

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The Anchoress – As We Once Were
Genre: Art Pop / Chamber Pop
Label: LNFG

Cancer Bats – Give Me Dirt
Genre: Hardcore Punk / Heavy Metal
Label: Bat Skull

Ceremony – Tell Me Your Dream
Genre: Hardcore Punk / Post-Punk
Label: Relapse

Citizen – Halcyon Blues
Genre: Alternative Rock / Emo
Label: Run for Cover

Dinner Party – Whatchu Bringing?
Genre: Neo-Soul / Jazz
Label: Sounds of Crenshaw

DMA’s – DMA’s
Genre: Indie Pop / Pop Rock
Label: Wonderlick

The Dresden Dolls – Yes, Virginia… (Tailor’s Version)
Genre: Dark Cabaret / Piano Rock
Label: Cooking Vinyl

Electric Callboy – Tanzneid
Genre: Electronicore / Neue Deutsche Härte
Label: Century Media

FLO – Therapy at the Club
Genre: Dance-Pop / Contemporary R&B
Label: EMI

Hana Stretton – Tiarn
Genre: Ambient / Post-Minimalism
Label: Brierfield Flood Press

Hulder – Verbolgen
Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: 20 Buck Spin

Inspectah Deck – Dragon’s Breath
Genre: Boom Bap / Chipmunk Soul
Label: Urban Icon

John Carpenter / Cody Carpenter / Daniel Davies – Cathedral
Genre: Horror Synth / Gothic Metal
Label: Sacred Bones

Labor of the Negative – The Triumph of Time and the Disillusioned
Genre: Avant-Garde Metal / Black Metal
Label: I, Voidhanger

The Lampreys – Masquerade
Genre: Glitch Pop / Plunderphonics
Label: dawk26

Lawrence English – The Rest Is My Ghost
Genre: Ambient / Drone
Label: Room40

Man/Woman/Chainsaw – Cannonball
Genre: Art Rock / Post-Punk
Label: Fiction

Margaret Glaspy – I Am Both
Genre: Indie Folk / Indie Rock
Label: ATO

Mountain Boy – The Nights
Genre: Indie Folk / Alt-Country
Label: Holiday

The Mountain Goats – Days
Genre: Heartland Rock / Power Pop
Label: Cadmean Dawn

Neptunian Maximalism – Nāgabhūtaṃ
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz / Drone Metal
Label: I, Voidhanger

Overmono – Pure Devotion
Genre: Progressive House / Melodic House
Label: XL

Papangu – Celestial
Genre: Jazz-Rock / Progressive Rock
Label: Deck

Q – Do You See Me?
Genre: Synth Funk / Alternative R&B
Label: Columbia

Public Opinion – The Curse of Public Opinion
Genre: Garage Punk / Pop Punk
Label: SideOneDummy

Ravyn Lenae – Blue Island
Genre: Minneapolis Sound / Contemporary R&B
Label: Atlantic

Role Model – Chuck Timely & The Hourglass
Genre: Roots Rock / Rockabilly
Label: Interscope

Rowena Wise – Bad Things Feel Good*
Genre: Indie Pop / Contemporary Folk
Label: Beloved

Slow Fiction – Dollhouse
Genre: Indie Rock / Shoegaze
Label: Tight Knit

Temple of Dread – Dreadspawn Dominion
Genre: Death Metal / Brutal Death Metal
Label: Testimony

wave to earth – bad pieces
Genre: Psychedelic Folk / Bedroom Pop
Label: WAVY

Why Bother? – Beyond Step One
Genre: Garage Punk / Synth Punk
Label: Feel It

Xandria – Eclipse
Genre: Symphonic Metal / Power Metal
Label: Napalm

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