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– List of Releases: May 22nd, 2026 –

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6lack – Love is the New Gangsta
Genre: Alternative R&B / Trap Soul
Label: LVRN

A – Prang
Genre: Alternative Rock / Power Pop
Label: Cooking Vinyl

A Good Year – Play
Genre: Alt-Pop / Indie Rock
Label: Escho

Aja Monet – The Color of Rain
Genre: Jazz Poetry / Spiritual Jazz
Label: drink sum wtr

Alela Diane – Who’s Keeping Time?
Genre: Contemporary Folk / Americana
Label: Loose

Armored Saint – Emotion Factory Reset
Genre: Heavy Metal / US Power Metal
Label: Metal Blade

As the Sun Falls – Songs from the Veil
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Folk Metal
Label: Theogonia

Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti – Almost Waking
Genre: Chamber Folk / Modern Classical
Label: Unheard of Hope

Bladee – Sulfur Surfer
Genre: Rage / Experimental Hip Hop
Label: Trash Island

Bleachers – Everyone For Ten Minutes
Genre: Pop Rock / Heartland Rock
Label: Dirty Hit

Blindead 23 – Deuterium
Genre: Progressive Metal / Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Label: Peaceville

Boys from Heaven – The Wanderer
Genre: AOR / Yacht Rock
Label: Frontiers

Crash of Rhinos – Logbook
Genre: Midwest Emo / Post-Hardcore
Label: Storm Chasers

Dan Byrne – There is Where the Show Begins
Genre: Blues Rock / Hard Rock
Label: Frontiers

Dimmu Borgir – Grand Serpent Rising
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal / Melodic Black Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast

The Early Years – Modern Moonlight
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia / Shoegaze
Label: Sonic Cathedral

Ecca Vandal – Looking for People to Unfollow
Genre: Alternative Rock / Post-Hardcore
Label: Loma Vista

Ed O’Brien – Blue Morpho
Genre: Art Rock / Chamber Folk
Label: Transgressive

Elder – Through Zero
Genre: Heavy Psych / Progressive Rock
Label: Blues Funeral

Erik Grönwall – Bad Bones
Genre: Hard Rock / Power Pop
Label: Playground Music

fakemink – Terrified .
Genre: Pop Rap / Jerk
Label: EtnaVeraVela

Future Islands – From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth [Compilation]
Genre: Synthpop / Indietronica
Label: 4AD

Hammock – The Second Coming Was a Moonrise
Genre: Ambient / Post-Rock
Label: Hammock Music

Hyd – Hold Onto Me Infinity
Genre: Synthpop / Alt-Pop
Label: Cascine

Impure Wilhelmina – Le Sanglot
Genre: Post-Metal / Progressive Metal
Label: Season of Mist

JPEGMAFIA – Experimental Rap
Genre: Experimental Hip Hop / Hardcore Hip Hop
Label: AWAL

Keops – Bitter Story for Humanity
Genre: Groove Metal / Heavy Metal
Label: NoCut

Lowertown – Ugly Duckling Union
Genre: Slacker Rock / Alt-Country
Label: Summer Shade

Maisie Peters – Florescence
Genre: Pop Rock / Folk-Pop
Label: Asylum

Marisa Anderson – The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music
Genre: American Primitivism / Ambient Americana
Label: Thrill Jockey

Marmozets – Co.War.Dice.
Genre: Dance-Punk Revival / New Rave
Label: Nettwerk / Alcopop!

Northborn – Northborn
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Symphonic Metal
Label: Art Gates

Pig – Hurt People Hurt
Genre: Industrial Rock / Electro-Industrial
Label: Metropolis

Requiem in White – The Visible Heaven
Genre: Gothic Rock / Ethereal Wave
Label: The Circle Music

School Fair – Unexpected Violence
Genre: Post-Punk / Slacker Rock
Label: Mutual

Simon Joyner – Tough Love
Genre: Contemporary Folk / Americana
Label: BB*ISLAND

Steep Canyon Rangers – Next Act
Genre: Progressive Bluegrass / Alt-Country
Label: Yep Roc

Thomas Dollbaum – Birds of Paradise
Genre: Alt-Country / Folk Rock
Label: Dear Life

Visible Cloaks – Paradessence
Genre: Ambient / Progressive Electronic
Label: RVNG

Western Addiction – Psychedelic Munitions
Genre: Hardcore Punk / Melodic Hardcore
Label: Fat Wreck

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