Albums in Stores – Jul 18th, 2025

super stacked week! most excited about yeemz and Forth Wanderers!

yeemz - Blame the Gods (indie folk)
Run River North - Perfect (indie)
Billie Marten - Dog Eared (folk)
Forth Wanderers - The Longer This Goes On (indie)
Jade Bird - Who Wants to Talk About Love (folk)
Madeline Kenney - Kiss From the Balcony (indie)
Panic Shack - Panic Shack (punk/indie rock)
Coral Grief - Air Between Us (indie rock/shoegaze)
Loose Tooth - New Age (indie rock)
FELIVAND - My Body’s My True North (alt pop)
Nectar Woode - it’s like I never left EP (soul/pop)
Puzzled Panther - Fits of Serenity EP (punk influenced rock)

 

Joe Bonamassa, Bush, Lord Huron, We Are Scientists

 

New PRESIDENT single. Not much I really care about this week.

 

Dream, Ivory
Healy
Jim Legxacy
Alex G

 

Lord Huron, Alex G

 

For fans of Brass Emo, Millington have a new EP out

 

ohhh wow. YESSSSSS

 

Thanks for the heads up on the Run River North new one

 

Happy Friday folks! Plenty of new stuff out today to enjoy.

For a more extensive list of new albums and EPs than what's already listed in the main post, you can check out my release schedule spreadsheet which includes stuff released so far in 2025 and currently beyond as far as November 2025.

It also includes stuff that's expected and/or speculated for release with a supporting source link where available.

SINGLES:
6 Months To Live
20TOKENS
3TEETH (Guns N' Roses cover)
6 Months To Live
Abrupt Decay
The Absent
The Acacia Strain
Adept
Alexisonfire (Live)
Alice Cooper
Alkaline Trio
all in ur head
Allayed
Amon Amarth
Anxious Arms
The Armed
Arriving Home
As The Structure Fails
Atreyu
Avatar
Band-Maid
Big Wreck
Bikkinyshop
Biohazard
biteki (feat. kais, Victxrw & Lil Skele)
Black Honey
The Black Keys
Black Lips
The Black Moods
Black Veil Brides
Blackbriar
Bleak (feat. Frontierer)
Bony Macaroni
Bookburner! (feat. Devin Swank)
Braeker
Burn Absolute
Burning Witches
The Butcher Sisters (feat. Doro)
Call Me Karizma
Castle Rat
CellarDoor
Challenger Deep
Chest
Chokecherry
Clayton King
Cold Hard Steel
Cold Snap
Concrete Ties (feat. Terror)
Cryptopsy (feat. Billy Strings)
Currents
Cutthroat
Daedric
Dark Divine
Dark Watch
Deaf Havana
Decayer
Deceptions (feat. Devin Swank)
Deez Nuts
Delayed Departure
demeanour
Dethrut
Dexterity
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Drain
Enemies & Allies
Espirit D'Air
Etched In Embers
Faced Out
Faith In Failure
Family Man
Federal Death Alliance
Feel The Pain
Feels Like Home
Fit For A King (feat. Chris Motionless)
The Fray
FR3AK
Friendship Commanders (Two songs)
Frontiers
Fury Weekend
Glasshaven
Glasslands
glimmers
Good Charlotte
Greysight (feat. Unity TX)
Grim Reality
Grind Gang
Grow Blind
HANABIE
HATED
Holywatr
Hong Kong Fuck You
Hot Mulligan
I Prevail
In This Moment (feat. Kim Dracula)
Inner Space
Intercourse
Interlinked
Iravera
Kerosene Heights
LaLion
The Last Dinner Party
Laura Jane Grace
Lesser Minds
Let It Rot
Let Me Bleed
Lift The Curse
Lonely Spring
LONG/LAST
Lost Artifacts
Lowdown
Lucidrae
Mainstream Scare
Make Your Own Monster
Manafest
Maroon 5
Mirrorcell (feat. Moodring)
Mono Inc.
Morning Eagle
Morose
Mother Vulture
Mouth Ripped Open
Nevertel
Nicolas Cage Fighter
Nightlives
Nine Inch Nails
Nosgov (feat. shinigami)
Of Truth
Onsight
Out Of Vision
Oxymorrons
Pile
Pine Creek Academy
PLAIINS
Playing With Knives (feat. Delilah)
Poltergeist
Predeceased
PRESIDENT
Projector
Pyrexia
Rainbow Kitten Surprise
really big really clever
RinRin
Shane Driscoll
She's Green
Shields
Shinedown
Shrezzers
The Sight Of Impact
Slow Rain (Two songs)
Sorry X
Soulkeeper
Soulkiller (feat. Joseph Coleman)
Spite House
Stay Inside
Supernova
Surrender The Crown
Tallah
t-minus
Tethra
They Are Gutting A Body Of Water
Thunder Queens
Times Of Desperation
TSALMAVETH PA (feat. Left To Suffer)
TTSSFU
Unleashed
Unwell
Vastive (feat. Left To Suffer)
Vlad In Tears
Voluntary Mortification
Vower
Wargasm (UK)
Waterparks
We Are Scientists
Werewolves
Whiskey Myers
White Lies
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal (Two songs)
Winters Howl
Wisdom In Chains
Wisp
XOXO.
Youth Never Dies

As always, all of the above singles are available to stream from my #NewMusicFriday playlist (below) which gets completely updated every single Friday, so feel free to follow/like it and you're all set.

If you don't want to risk missing it, you can also sign up to my mailing list and I'll email it out to you every Friday along with a list of that week's new album and EP releases.

 

A few releases today for me too. I added an * by the ones I was tracking the closest. I think this audience would like Forth Wanderers and Townies from this rec list.

*Alex G - Headlights (alt/indie)
Ax and the Hatchetman (indie rock, RIYL Dogpark)
*Bea Porges - Too Soon (singer-songwriter)
Billie Martin - Dog Eared (indie folk)
*Bleach Lab - Close to the Flame (dream pop)
Delacey - Crying Over Beauty (dream pop)
Felviland - my body's my true north (indie)
FLETCHER - Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me? (pop)
*Forth Wanders - The Longer This Goes On (jangly indie rock, not emo but adjacent)
MADELINE KENNEY - Kiss From the Balcony (indie, folk, singer-songwriter, but with more production layers)
Natalie Bergman - My Home Is Not In This World (folk/americana)
Nectar Woode - it's like I never left (R&B)
Jade Bird - Who Wants to Talk About Love (country)
Stacey Ryan - Sweet Talker (R&B, funk)
Townies - Speak with Your Chest (emo, RIYL Macseal)

 

Don’t worry is a great little two-singer indie (formerly Emo) Uk band very worth checking out

 

New Nmesh album is extraordinary.

 

DROUGHT
good will, get better
Townies
The LVP EP

I also threw Swain and ENEMY AC130 ABOVE albums on today’s playlist. They came out over the last few weeks that I missed.

 

Things I’m Checking Out This Week

Jessie Murph
Alex Warren
Lord Huron
Trisha Yearwood
Niko Moon
Bush
Cam
Fletcher
Kelsey Lamb EP
Laura Jane Grace
Colin Hay
Above & Beyond
We Are Scientists
The Last Revel
Messer
Zac Ferro
Scotty McCreery EP
The Aces EP

 

WSTR EP is fun

 

Alex G
New single from President

 

Stomach
Abigail Williams
Mawiza

 

thanks for reminding me. One of my favorite “new” bands (found them a few months ago)

 

• Abigail Williams (A Void Within Existence) -- The lineup may not be consistent, but they still somehow manage to get better with every album. Atmospheric black metal with light prog and symphonic elements.
• Ba'al (The Fine Line Between Heaven & Here) -- Absolutely epic post-metal that is constantly shifting & evolving. So many sounds! but they generally work & build off one another. Might be listed under the name Baal.
• DARKO (Canvas) -- Not the deathcore band. These guys are kind of like if Protest the Hero & Close Your Eyes were smashed together. Wonderful.
• Scardust (Souls) -- Maximalist symphonic prog metal. Do you like Nightwish or Epica? Give this a try, it's pretty great.
• Effuse (On Others) -- Proggy post-hardcore that's like a mix of late-era The Contortionist & Circa Survive.
• Phantom Spell (Heather & Hearth) -- A mix of traditional heavy metal & old-school prog.
• Margarita Witch Cult (Strung Out in Hell) -- Doom/Stoner with some fat riffs and catchy melodies.

 

Bay Ledges - Cloud Archives Vol. 1
Bush - I Beat Loneliness
Drought - Souvenir [[hardcore]]
Grentperez - Backflips In A Restaurant ((deluxe edition))
Jade Bird - Who Wants To Talk About Love
Kelcey Ayer (formerly of Local Natives) - No Sleep EP
Laura Jane Grace in the Trauma Tropes - Adventure Club
Madeline Kenney - Kiss From the Balcony
Millington - Better Safe and Sorry EP
Satin Jackets - Cruise Control [[nu disco/dance]]
SYTÉ - Perfect Timing EP
The Rocky Valentines - Music On The Shelf
Townies - Speak With Your Chest EP
Zac Farro - Operator

Singles:
16 Underground, Abigail Osborn, Alkaline Trio, Black Honey, Black Lips, Blood Orange, Chokecherry, Curtis Harding, Dope Smoker, Drain, Ducks, Ltd., Electric Guest, Eliza McLamb, Feel The Pain, Fruit Bats, glaive, Good Charlotte, Great Big Cow, Hard Chiller, Hot Wax, Kerosene Heights, King Princess, Leon Bridges & Hermanos Gutierrez, Lowertown, Pile, Pool Kids, Renee Rapp, Rinsem Skullcrusher, Spiritual Cramp, Spite House, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Stay Inside, Sublime, The Altons, The Armed, The Last Dinner Party, Thee Marloes, Upchuck, Waterparks, Whitney, Winter, Wisp, Wyldest