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
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:…
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
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…
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
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
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
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]
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
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
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
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
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
Oh, hi. So. How are you holding up? Because I’m a potato. Below is a smattering of new releases for the week of March 6th, 2026. Look at you. Sailing through the air majestically. Like an eagle. Piloting a blimp. 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 square root of rope is string.
– List of Releases: March 6th, 2026 –
Acranius – Whiteout Genre: Slam Death Metal / Deathcore Label: Blood Blast
Andrew Wasylyk – Irreparable Parables Genre: Chamber Jazz / ECM Style Jazz Label: Clay Pipe
Bitter Branches – Let’s Give the Land Back to the Animals Genre: Noise Rock / Post-Hardcore Label: Equal Vision
Black Lung – Forever Beyond Genre: Stoner Rock / Heavy Psych Label: Magnetic Eye
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – We Are Together Again Genre: Contemporary Folk / Americana Label: No Quarter
Book of Churches – Book of Churches Genre: Chamber Folk / Contemporary Folk Label: Gravity
Bosse-de-Nage – Hidden Fires Burn Hottest Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal / Post-Metal Label: The Fensler
You’ve been a good friend to me. That means something. Below is a sample of new releases for the week of February 27th, 2026. A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON! 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: there are so few pleasures in life as fine as your company.
– List of Releases: February 27th, 2026 –
A Wilhelm Scream – Cheap Heat Genre: Melodic Hardcore / Skate Punk Label: Creator-Destructor
And Also the Trees – The Devil’s Door Genre: Art Rock / Gothic Rock Label: And Also the Trees
Archive – Glass Minds Genre: Art Rock / Ambient Pop Label: Dangervisit
Bill Callahan – My Days of 58 Genre: Chamber Folk / Indie Rock Label: Drag City
Black Swan – Paralyzed Genre: Hard Rock / Glam Metal Label: Frontiers
Some gentle housekeeping: there seems to be a resurgence of phobic and/or ableist slurs of late and this must cease, please. When the trash takes itself out like lemmings, there’s no need to regress into edgelord posturing. Give a man a little power, and he falls in all kinds of love with himself. Also, the 2025 staff list is appreciably similar to the community list — who else was going to put Deafheaven at #1 along with The Callous Daoboys and Ethel Cain in the Top 5? One fun fact is that Oklou made its way high up in the 30-11 tier. Love is a chemical; we give it meaning by choice. Whether you are a daily presence (hi!), took a short break (welcome back!), or are returning after a long respite (samesies!), we love you, even if we don’t love the site “randomly” timing out. Below is a small batch of new releases for the week of February 20th to continue placating the one person who thinks these get posted too late in the week. We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make 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 yes, congratulations, you’ve won a battle of wits with a home appliance!
