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From a meteorological lens, some of us are starting to feel the dog days of summer, so hopefully those of you upside-down are persevering through the cat nights of winter. Below is an ostensibly incomplete list of new releases for August 15th, 2025. Feel free to jam the playlist, let us know what you’re looking forward to this week, and thank you for teaching kids everywhere a valuable lesson: if things don’t go your way, just keep complaining until your dreams come true. Until then, we’ll catch you for the next one!


– List of Releases: August 15th, 2025 –


The Aces – Gold Star Baby
Genre: Dance-Pop / Nu-Disco
Label: SoundOn

Alison Goldfrapp – Flux
Genre: Dance-Pop / Electropop
Label: A.G Recordings

Audrey Hobert – Who’s the Clown?
Genre: Electropop / Indie Pop
Label: RCA

Babyface Ray – Codeine Cowboy
Genre: Detroit Sound / Trap
Label: Empire

Baest – Colossal
Genre: Heavy Metal / Death ‘n’ Roll
Label: Century Media

Big Noble – It’s Later Than You Think
Genre: Ambient Techno / Sound Art
Label: [self-released]

Black Honey – Soak
Genre: Indie Rock / Alt-Pop
Label: Foxfive

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Good news, everyone! mm/dd/yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy are the same this week! This won’t happen again until… 10/10. Hopefully we’ll get there if we stack ’em one week at a time! All we can do is try, and trying is the first step towards failure. In the meantime, below is a not-exactly-comprehensive list of new releases for the week of August 8th, 2025. Feel free to jam the playlist, let us know what you’re looking forward to this week, and we’ll catch you on the next one!


– List of Releases: August 8th, 2025 –


Ada Lea – when i paint my masterpiece
Genre: Indie Folk / Neo-Psychedelia
Label: Saddle Creek

Amaarae – BLACK STAR
Genre: Jersey Club / Dance-Pop
Label: Interscope

Anamanaguchi – Anyway
Genre: Slacker Rock / Indie Rock
Label: Polyvinyl

Attack Attack! – Attack Attack! II
Genre: Metalcore / Electronicore
Label: Oxide

Aversions Crown – A Voice from the Outer Dark [EP]
Genre: Deathcore / Technical Death Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast

BABYMETAL – Metal Forth
Genre: Kawaii Metal / Metalcore
Label: Capitol

Bad Suns – Accelerator
Genre: Electropop / Post-Punk Revival
Label: Epitaph

The Black Keys – No Rain, No Flowers

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It might seem tragic that August is both Romance Awareness Month and National Catfish Month, but we figure the latter has to do with the fried-in-Old Bay-and-cornmeal variety. Below is a non-exhaustive list of new releases for August 1st, 2025. Jam the playlist, tell us your favorite sandwich/panini (since those are celebrated this month as well), and we’ll catch you next time!


– List of Releases: August 1st, 2025 –


ACCVSED – Dealers of Doom
Genre: Metalcore / Alternative Metal
Label: Arising Empire

Almost An Island – Almost An Island
Genre: Ambient / Drone
Label: Past Inside the Present

araabMUZIK – Electronic Dream 2
Genre: Instrumental Hip-Hop / Trap [EDM]
Label: Genre Defying Entertainment

The Armed – The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
Genre: Post-Hardcore / Noise Rock
Label: Sargent House

Between Friends – WOW!
Genre: Alt-Pop / Indietronica
Label: 10K

Car Bomb – Tiles Whisper Dreams [EP]
Genre: Mathcore / Djent
Label: Church Road

Centuries of Decay – A Monument to Oblivion
Genre: Progressive Death Metal / Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Label: [independent]

Chance the Rapper – Star Line
Genre: Pop Rap / Pop Reggae
Label: n/a…

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Below is a partial list of some new releases for July 25th, 2025. It’s also Shark Week this week. Jam the playlist, vote on the best shark, and let us know what the haps be in your neck of the sea — and we’ll catch you next time!


– List of Releases: July 25th, 2025 –


16volt – More of Less
Genre: Industrial Rock / Electro-Industrial
Label: Metropolis

Alessi Rose – Voyeur [EP]
Genre: Alt-Pop / Indie Pop
Label: Atlantic

Alice Cooper – The Revenge of Alice Cooper
Genre: Hard Rock / Psychedelic Rock
Label: earMUSIC

Anchor & Braille – New Mexico
Genre: Alternative Rock / Post-Punk
Label: Equal Vision

Beheaded – Għadam
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Technical Death Metal
Label: Agonia

Blankenberge – Decisions
Genre: Shoegaze / Dream Pop
Label: Automatic Music

Bleary Eyed – Easy
Genre: Shoegaze / Noise Pop
Label: Born Losers

Boneflower – Reveries
Genre: Screamo / Post-Hardcore
Label: Deathwish

Bruce Dickinson – More Balls to Picasso [Revisited/Regenerated]
Genre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Label: BMG

Cheat Codes – Future Renaissance
Genre: Dance-Pop / Electropop
Label: Create Music Group…

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Below is a partial list of notable new releases for July 18th, 2025. What are you looking forward to this week? Jam the playlist (or the DK Rap in honor of Donkey Kong Bananza‘s release) and let us know what the haps be — and we’ll see you all for the next one!


– List of Releases: July 18th, 2025 –


Abigail Williams – A Void Within Existence
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal / Melodic Black Metal
Label: Agonia

Above & Beyond – Bigger Than All of Us
Genre: Melodic House / Progressive Trance
Label: Anjunabeats

Alex G – Headlights
Genre: Indie Folk / Americana
Label: RCA

Ba’al – The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here
Genre: Post-Metal / Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Label: Road to Masochist

Billie Marten – Dog Eared
Genre: Bedroom Pop / Indie Pop
Label: Fiction

Bush – I Beat Loneliness
Genre: Alternative Rock / Post-Grunge
Label: earMUSIC

Clairvoyance – Chasm of Immurement
Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal
Label: Carbonized

Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway – Addicted to the Violence
Genre: Alternative Metal / Alternative Rock
Label: Scarred for Life

DJ Haram – Beside Myself

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Welcome back to our humble abode, rife with intrusive boner pill ads and a roller grill featuring products that might survive a nuclear holocaust. We’re sorta like 7-Eleven: we’re not always doing business, but we’re always open. Jam the playlist below, let us know what you’re looking forward to this week, and we’ll catch you on the flippity-flip.


– List of Releases: July 11th, 2025 –


Amy MacDonald – Is This What You’ve Been Waiting for?
Genre: Power Pop / Pop Rock
Label: Infectious

Born of Osiris – Through Shadows
Genre: Metalcore / Djent
Label: Sumerian

Clipse – Let God Sort Em Out
Genre: Gangsta Rap / Experimental Hip-Hop
Label: Roc Nation

Disembodiment – Spiral Crypts
Genre: Death Metal / Death Doom Metal
Label: Everlasting Spew

Gina Birch – Trouble
Genre: Post-Punk / Art-Pop
Label: Third Man

GIVĒON – BELOVED
Genre: Pop-Soul / Contemporary R&B
Label: Epic

Goon – Dream 3
Genre: Indie Rock / Neo-Psychedelia
Label: Born Losers

Gwenno – Utopia
Genre: Art Pop / Dream Pop
Label: Heavenly

Hammock – Nevertheless
Genre: Ambient / Post-Rock
Label: Hammock

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Happy Pride, Happy Canada Day, Happy 4th of July — July is also Social Wellness Month and UV Safety Awareness Month, so please wear sunscreen and stay properly hydrated when you’re out touching grass during National Picnic Month! Here are some new releases on deck for the week of July 4th. Jam the playlist and let us know what you’re looking forward to this week!


– List of Releases: July 4th, 2025 –


Divine Sentence – Killing is a Cycle
Genre: Metalcore / Sludge Metal
Label: Blood Blast Distro

Haarvöl – Horizons of Suspended Zones
Genre: Experimental / Dark Ambient
Label: Crónica

Jonny Nash – Once Was Ours Forever
Genre: Ambient / Modern Classical
Label: Melody as Truth

Kae Tempest – Self Titled
Genre: Conscious Hip-Hop / Electro Hop
Label: Island / EMI

Kesha – . [Period]
Genre: Dance-Pop / Alt-Pop
Label: Kesha Records

Necht – The Inevitable Suffering [EP]
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal / Blackened Death Metal
Label: [self-released]

Nilüfer Yanya – Dancing Shoes [EP]
Genre: Bedroom Pop / Alt-Pop
Label: Ninja Tune

Rival Consoles – Landscape from Memory
Genre: Future Garage / Ambient Techno
Label: Erased Tapes…

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