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If you haven’t already, check out the dynamic duo of D’Gonzo and S’harder as they discussed May’s new releases in their fireside chat. 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: the batteries in your Wii Remote are nearly depleted.


– List of Releases: June 19th, 2026 –


Adult Magic – Are You Even Happy Now?
Genre: Power Pop / Post-Grunge
Label: Dead Broke

Avarice – Perpetual Ruin
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Label: Mighty Music

Belvedere – Seven Years of Bad Luck
Genre: Skate Punk / Melodic Hardcore
Label: Thousand Islands

Cochise – Trench Town
Genre: Trap / Rage
Label: Sony / Columbia

Conflux – In the Wake of Saturn
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Progressive Metal
Label: [independent]

D12 – D12 Forever (Vol. 1)
Genre: Hardcore Hip Hop / Gangsta Rap
Label: Compound Interest

Daniel Lanois – Belladonna Nocturne
Genre: Electroacoustic / Ambient
Label: Red Floor

Einherjer – Lifeblood
Genre: Viking Metal / Folk Metal
Label: By Norse

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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: the flowers in the garden are representative of those in your heart. Treat them both nice.


– List of Releases: June 12th, 2026 –


BASIC – BASIC
Genre: Krautrock / Experimental Rock
Label: No Quarter

Bebe Rexha – Dirty Blonde
Genre: Dance-Pop / Festival Progressive House
Label: Empire

BIG|BRAVE – in grief or in hope
Genre: Drone Metal / Doomgaze
Label: Thrill Jockey

Big D and the Kids Table – The Good Ole American Saturday Night
Genre: Ska Punk / “Stroll”
Label: SideOneDummy

Blxst – Labor of Love
Genre: Contemporary R&B / Pop Rap
Label: Empire

Bob Wagner – I’ve Been Down
Genre: Alt-Country / Americana
Label: Royal Potato Family

The Bobby Lees – New Self
Genre: Garage Punk / Punk Blues
Label: Ipecac

Defiled – Altered State
Genre: Death Metal / Groove Metal
Label: Season of Mist

Dirty Heads – 7 Seas
Genre: Pop Reggae / Pop Rap
Label: Better Noise

Embrace – Avalanche
Genre:

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Lots to celebrate in June! 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: back in my day, we had two sticks and a rock for the entire platoon, and we had to share the rock!


– List of Releases: June 5th, 2026 –


100 Demons – Embrace the Black Light
Genre: Metalcore / Beatdown Hardcore
Label: Closed Casket Activities

A.A. Williams – Solstice
Genre: Doomgaze / Post-Rock
Label: Reigning Phoenix

August Burns Red – Season of Surrender
Genre: Melodic Metalcore / Progressive Metal
Label: Fearless

Bad Stuff – Bad Stuff
Genre: Garage Rock / Slowcore
Label: Relapse

Bedouine – Neon Summer Skin
Genre: Baroque Pop / Chamber Folk
Label: Thirty Tigers

Blood Incantation – All Gates Open [Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Genre: Progressive Metal / Death Metal
Label: Century Media

Converge – Hum of Hurt
Genre: Post-Hardcore / Metalcore
Label: Epitaph

CyHra – Requiem for a Pipe Dream
Genre: Alternative Metal / Trance Metal
Label: Reigning Phoenix

Death Cab for Cutie – I Built You a Tower
Genre: Post-Punk Revival / Krautrock
Label: Anti-

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Somehow, we returned. 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: you never know if your bad luck spared you from your worse luck.


– List of Releases: May 29th, 2026 –


’68 – They Are Survived
Genre: Noise Rock / Post-Hardcore
Label: Pure Noise

aespa – LEMONADE
Genre: K-Pop / Pop Rap
Label: SM

Alana Springsteen – I Hope This Helps
Genre: Country Pop / Contemporary Country
Label: Columbia

All Them Witches – House of Mirrors
Genre: Heavy Psych / Occult Rock
Label: BMG

Aural Imbalance – Fragile Shapes
Genre: Atmospheric Drum and Bass / Jungle
Label: Spatial

Balmora – These Graven Halls
Genre: Melodic Metalcore / Melodic Death Metal
Label: Daze

Bluetech – Petite Constellations
Genre: Psybient / Progressive Electronic
Label: DiN

Boards of Canada – Inferno
Genre: Downtempo / Progressive Electronic
Label: Warp

Brian Jackson – Now More Than Ever
Genre: Jazz-Funk / Soul
Label: BBE

The Bug Club – Every Single Muscle
Genre: Garage…

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The Internet’s most “It’s here, I guess” Weekly is once again back like clockwork, even if a stopped clock is right twice a day. 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: the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.


– List of Releases: May 22nd, 2026 –


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:

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Please 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: you can’t just shoot a hole into the surface of Mars.


– List of Releases: May 15th, 2026 –


49 Winchester – Change of Plans
Genre: Alt-Country / Americana
Label: New West

Active Child – Active Child
Genre: Art Pop / Alt-Pop
Label: Masterworks

Advent Horizon – Falling Together
Genre: Progressive Metal / Progressive Rock
Label: Bandwagon Music

Aeons in Solitude – Black Lumina
Genre: Gothic Rock / Darkwave
Label: Soman

The All-American Rejects – Sandbox
Genre: Power Pop / Alternative Rock
Label: Slick Shoes

Atavistia – Old Gods Awaken
Genre: Folk Metal / Melodic Death Metal
Label: Blood Blast Distribution

Beautiful Hotnes – Tastes Like Filth
Genre: Electro-Industrial / Electroclash
Label: Delete Yourself

Crow and Gazelle – Truth Be Told
Genre: Americana / Contemporary Folk
Label: [independent]

Crown Lands – Apocalypse
Genre: Progressive Rock / Heavy Psych
Label: InsideOut

Defect Designer

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Please 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: only a Sith deals in absolutes.


– List of Releases: May 8th, 2026 –


Action Bronson – Planet Frog
Genre: Drumless / Abstract Hip Hop
Label: Baklava

Aldous Harding – Train on the Island
Genre: Avant-Folk / Art Pop
Label: 4AD

Amy Grant – The Me That Remains
Genre: Folk Pop / Acoustic Rock
Label: Thirty Tigers

Ashley McBryde – Wild
Genre: Contemporary Country / Country Pop
Label: MCA Nashville

Basement – WIRED
Genre: Alternative Rock / Indie Rock
Label: Run for Cover

Black Milk – CEREMONIAL
Genre: Conscious Hip Hop / Jazz Rap
Label: Computer Ugly

Black Veil Brides – Vindicate
Genre: Melodic Metalcore / Alternative Metal
Label: Spinefarm

Broken Social Scene – Remember the Humans
Genre: Indie Rock / Chamber Pop
Label: Arts & Crafts / City Slang

Cola – Cost of Living Adjustment
Genre: Post-Punk Revival / Indie Rock
Label: Fire Talk

 Crashdïet – Art of Chaos
Genre: Glam Metal / Hard…

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Please 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:


– List of Releases: May 1st, 2026 –


American Football – American Football (LP4)
Genre: Post-Rock / Indie Rock
Label: Polyvinyl

Ana Roxanne – Poem 1
Genre: Ambient / Impressionism
Label: kranky

Asake – M$NEY
Genre: Afrobeats / Boom Bap
Label: EMPIRE

The Black Keys – Peaches!
Genre: Blues Rock / Boogie Rock
Label: Easy Eye

BLARF – Film Scores for Films That Don’t Exist
Genre: Avant-Garde Metal / Orchestral Music
Label: Stones Throw

Bonner Kramer & Thurston Moore – They Came Like Swallows: Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza
Genre: Experimental / Progressive Ambient
Label: Silver Current

The Boo Radleys – In Spite of Everything
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia / Art Rock
Label: 1984 Recordings

Cage Fight – Exuvia
Genre: Metalcore / Groove Metal
Label: Spinefarm

Cape Crush – Place Memory
Genre: Emo-Pop / Indie Rock
Label: Wanna Hear It

Chris Brain – Red Sun Rising
Genre: Chamber Folk / Folk…

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Below is an intentionally incomplete cadre of new releases for April 24th, 2026. 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: if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.


– List of Releases: April 24th, 2026 –


The Amity Affliction – House of Cards
Genre: Metalcore / Alternative Metal
Label: Pure Noise

Angelo De Augustine – Angel in Plainclothes
Genre: Chamber Folk / Indie Folk
Label: Asthmatic Kitty

At the Gates – The Ghost of a Future Dead
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Gothenburg Sound
Label: Century Media

Atreyu – The End is Not the End
Genre: Melodic Metalcore / Alternative Metal
Label: Spinefarm

Body Thief – Halfway to Hallelujah
Genre: Swancore / Post-Hardcore
Label: [independent]

Carla dal Forno – Confession
Genre: Dream Pop / Ethereal Wave
Label: Kallista

CAVS – Sojourn
Genre: Jazz Fusion / Spiritual Jazz
Label: p(doom)

City of the Sun – Under the Moon
Genre: Post-Rock / Shoegaze
Label: Nettwerk

Death Lens – What’s Left Now?
Genre:

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Below is a non-exhaustive list of new releases for April 17th, 2026. 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: had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong!


– List of Releases: April 17th, 2026 –


Anitta – EquilibrIVm
Genre: MPB / Funk Brasileiro
Label: Republic

Arkells – Between Us
Genre: Indie Rock / Pop Rock
Label: [independent]

Bensley – Supraliminal
Genre: Dancefloor Drum and Bass / Neurofunk
Label: AEI

Chief State – Keep Your Friends Closer
Genre: Emo-Pop / Pop Punk
Label: Mutant League

Crimson Glory – Chasing The Hydra
Genre: US Power Metal / Heavy Metal
Label: BraveWords

Crippled Black Phoenix – Sceaduhelm
Genre: Art Rock / Progressive Rock
Label: Season of Mist

Eaves Wilder – Little Miss Sunshine
Genre: Alternative Rock / Indie Pop
Label: Secretly Canadian

Frog – Frog for Sale
Genre: Indie Rock / Sunshine Pop
Label: [independent]

From Ashes to New – Reflections
Genre: Alternative Metal / Metalcore
Label: Better Noise

Godsnake – Inhale

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Didn’t we just do one of these? Sorry about that. While you are welcome to go back in time to last week, the superior option is checking out DrGonzo’s Skinny Puppy video essay. Below is a short list of new releases for April 10th, 2026. 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: we are so back (until we are not, but until then, we are so back).


– List of Releases: April 10th, 2026 –


808 State & Humanoid – In Place of Language [EP]
Genre: Acid House / Acid Techno
Label: De:tuned

Archspire – Too Fast to Die
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Progressive Metal
Label: [independent]

Artificial Astronaut – When the Familiar Ends
Genre: Alternative Rock / Post-Rock
Label: [independent]

As Everything Unfolds – Did You Ask to Be Set Free?
Genre: Alternative Metal / Melodic Metalcore
Label: Century Media

Bilmuri – KINDA HARD
Genre: Alternative Rock / Easycore
Label: Columbia

Bodysnatcher – Hell is Here, Hell is Home
Genre: Downtempo Deathcore / Beatdown Hardcore
Label: MNRK Heavy

Broadside –

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Below is a short list of new releases for April 3rd, 2026. 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 that, somehow, we return to regularly-scheduled programming (at some point).


– List of Releases: April 3rd, 2026 –


Angine de Poitrine – Vol.II
Genre: Math Rock / Psychedelic Rock
Label: [independent]

Arlo Parks – Ambiguous Desire
Genre: Alt-Pop / Alternative R&B
Label: Transgressive

The Bevis Frond – Horrorful Heights
Genre: Psychedelic Rock / Folk Rock
Label: Fire

Billy Fuller – Fragments
Genre: Krautrock / Minimal Synth
Label: Invada

Bloody Valkyria – Requiem: Reveries of the Dying
Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Symphonic Metal
Label: Northern Silence

Bon Iver – Volumes: One
(Selections from Music Concerts 2019-2023
Bon Iver 6 Piece Band)
Genre: Art Pop / Indietronica
Label: Jagjaguwar

Bruce Hornsby – Indigo Park
Genre: Art Pop / Piano Rock
Label: Thirty Tigers

Charley Crockett – Age of the Ram
Genre: Progressive Country / Honky Tonk
Label: Island

Codefendants – Lifers
Genre: Rap Rock / Experimental Hip Hop
Label:

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HEY! LISTEN! Below is a beefier-than-usual, but still unfinished-by-design list of new releases for the week of March 27th, 2026. They say that there is no medicine that can cure a fool… I guess that’s true. 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: the flow of time is always cruel.


– List of Releases: March 27th, 2026 –


The Academy Is… – Almost There
Genre: Power Pop / New Wave
Label: I Surrender

ADULT. – Kissing Luck Goodbye
Genre: Electroclash / Synth Punk
Label: Dais

Anteaters – Songs That the Renaissance Popes Taught Us
Genre: Post-Punk Revival / Noise Rock
Label: Elasticstage

Big Harp – Runs to Blue
Genre: Alt-Country / Contemporary Folk
Label: Saddle Creek

Black Label Society – Engines of Demolition
Genre: Heavy Metal / Groove Metal
Label: MNRK

The Boxer Rebellion – The Second I’m Asleep
Genre: Alternative Rock / Dream Pop
Label: Absentee

Bragolin – I Don’t Like What It Does to Me
Genre: Darkwave / Post-Punk
Label: Young & Cold

The Casualties – Detonate
Genre: Street Punk / Oi!

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The way I see it, there’s two types of people: those who spend their lives trying to build a future and those who spend their lives trying to rebuild the past. Below is an intentionally incomplete list of new releases for the week of March 20th, 2026. 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: nothing’s a cliché when it’s happening to you.


– List of Releases: March 20th, 2026 –


Alex Isley – When the City Sleeps
Genre: Contemporary R&B / Neo-Soul
Label: Warner

Asian Glow – Arin Cot
Genre: Shoegaze / Noise Pop
Label: Longinus

Assignment – With the End Comes Silence
Genre: Progressive Metal / Power Metal
Label: Massacre

Attila – Concrete Throne
Genre: Nu Metal / Metalcore
Label: [independent]

Avalon Emerson & The Charm – Written into Changes
Genre: Dream Pop / Baggy
Label: Dead Oceans

BTS – ARIRANG
Genre: K-Pop / Contemporary R&B
Label: BIGHIT

The Dear Hunter – Sunya
Genre: Art Rock / Progressive Rock
Label: Cave & Canary

Ego Ella May – Good Intentions
Genre: Neo-Soul / Contemporary R&B
Label:

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Our actions have consequences. To be reminded of them is not punishment. Below is a non-exhaustive list of new releases for the week of March 13th, 2026. Forgiveness can be powerful, even for the unworthy. 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: you must live with your deeds, but don’t be troubled by them.


– List of Releases: March 13th, 2026 –


A Somber Funeral – Since You Left These Shores
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal / Blackgaze
Label: Fiadh

Alexis Taylor – Paris in the Spring
Genre: Art Pop / Indietronica
Label: Night Time Stories

Anjimile – You’re Free to Go
Genre: Alt-Pop / Avant-Folk
Label: 4AD

Art School Girlfriend – Lean In
Genre: Glitch Pop / Indietronica
Label: Fiction

The Black Crowes – A Pound of Feathers
Genre: Blues Rock / Southern Rock
Label: Silver Arrow

Bound in Fear – A Mind Too Sick to Heal
Genre: Downtempo Deathcore / Slam Death Metal
Label: Unique Leader

Brigitte Calls Me Baby – Irreversible
Genre: Post-Punk Revival / Big Music
Label: ATO

Cashier – The Weight [EP]
Genre: Shoegaze / Noise Pop

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