Albums in Stores – Mar 21st, 2025

Things I’m checking out this week

Selena Gomez & benny blanco pop
A Day To Remember rock
Maddox Batson pop country
Ryan Hurd country
David Ramirez soulful singer/songwriter
Denm alternative
The Lottery Winners pop
408 alternative
Lily Meola soft pop
Greer alternative

cover songs I didn’t know I needed
Nothing, Nowhere doing All Star
And from last summer
Gus Dapperton doing Believe

 

Dead Bars

 

SpiritWorld

and of course the new House of Protection single

 

Japanese Breakfast.. probably my morning jacket…

 

Andrew Gabbard - & On (Bonus Cuts from Ramble & Rave On!)
Bathe - Inside Voices (r&b)
Dead Bars - All Dead Bars Go To Heaven
Dutch Interior - Moneyball
Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny (trip-hop, neo-soul, r&b, a lil reggae influence)
Greer - Big Smile
Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
Men I Trust - Equus Asinus

Singles:
Arc De Soleil, Arm's Length, Artemas, BALTHVS, Beach Bunny, caroline, CIVIC, Cola Boyy, Deady, Destin Conrad, DoFlame, Doja Cat & Jack Harlow, Dreamer Isioma, Durand Jones & The Indications, James and The Cold Gun, Jensen McRae, Joy Crookers, Kacy Hill, La Lom, Lip Filler, Luna Li, Lunar Vacation, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Preoccupations, resting, Sex Week, Sleigh Bells, Smelter, Superheaven, The Black Keys, The Knocks, The Raging Nathans, Tom Misch, Tropical Fuck Storm, Vansire, Wishy, Yukimi

 

Don't forget about "Bracket - 4-Wheel Vibe (30th Anniversary)" !

 

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 September 2025.

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

SINGLES:
9 Dead
Acres
Air Drawn Dagger
Akkadian
All Good Things
Amber Palace
Amenra
Arm's Length
Arriving Home
As The Structure Fails
Ashnikko
Berried Alive
The Black Keys
Blackbriar
Blindside
BOI WHAT (Green Day cover)
Book Of Beart
BRCDS
BROJOB
Buckcherry
The Bunny The Bear
Burner
Caliban (feat. Joe Bad)
City Of The Weak (feat. Garret Rapp)
Classic Jack
coldrain
Colpocleisis
Confessions Of A Traitor
Convey (feat. Skora)
Cruel Company
Cult(ure)
The Day We Left Earth x APOC
DaysEye
De'Wayne
Dead Eyes
dead7
DED (feat. Chris Motionless)
Deerhoof
Defying Decay
Don't Try
EYES (feat. KEN Mode)
The Fallen Prodigy
First To Eleven
The Funk Hunters (feat. LUN)
Glow Kobra
Ghost Heart
Glitch Kingdom
Graveborn
guccihighwaters (feat. TOOPOOR)
The Haunted
Hayden
Haywire 617
Hollow Crown
House Of Protection
Humour
Huranova
Idle Heirs
In Gloom
James And The Cold Gun (ex-Holding Absence)
Jools
Katla
Kicked In The Teeth
LARCENIA ROE
The Last Mile
Leah Kate
Left On Red
Light The Fire
Lord Of The Lost
Lost For Life
Lowist (feat. Dal Av)
Machine Gun Kelly
Magdalene Rose
Malevolence
Manapart
Melvins
Mercury
Mod Sun
Monument Of A Memory
MOVIESTARZ
newshapes
No Light Escapes
NORROWON
Northbound & Down
nothing,nowhere. (Smash Mouth cover)
Novelists
Nylist (feat. Taylor Barber)
ONE CHiN
ONI
Osatia (Acoustic)
Our Last Night
Pelican
Phantom Elite
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (feat. El-P)
Poolside At The Flamingo
Ras Bootin'
Sakoya (feat. Tobi Duncan)
Sammy SlamDance
Samurai Pizza Cats
Scarlxrd
SENNA
Sheridan
Shokran
Sicksense
The Sight Of Impact (feat. Joey Tyler)
Silent Theory (feat. Daedric)
Soapbox
Soft Play (feat. Kate Nash)
Sorry My Love
Speaking With Ghosts
Speedway
Stain The Canvas
Stereophonics
STORM
Stray View
Sunsleep
Superheaven
Thin The Herd
Tidebringer
Torn From Oblivion (feat. For I Am King)
Torzs
Us In Motion
Vanitas
Vomit Out Restriction
Wake Up Hate
We The Kings
We're Wolves
Winter Hotel
Wocket Launcher
Words From Aztecs
World's First Cinema
Wormrot (Live)
Wucan
xarise
XweaponX
You Win Again Gravity
Youth Code
Yungblud

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.

 

408
Anberlin (Never Take Friendship Personal re-recorded with Matty Mullins)
Do it Later
A Day to Remember
Heavy is the Head EP
Dead Bars

 

Pictoria Vark - Nothing Sticks (indie)
Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) [indie]
Eliza Niemi - Progress Bakery (indie)
Men I Trust - Equus Asinus (dreamyyy indie)
Lola Kirke - Trailblazer (alt country/americana)
Ora the Molecule - Dance Therapy (synth pop/dance)
The Lottery Winners - KOKO (indie pop)
Glazyhaze - SONIC (shoegaze)
Cross Record - Crush Me (experimental idk)
The Taxpayers - Circle Breaker (folk punk)
Phoebe Green - The Container EP (indie pop)
Casino Hearts - A Walk in the Grass EP (dream pop)

 

Travis Denning - Where'd That Boy Go
John Morgan - Kid Myself
Ripe - Try Not to Look
Eric Church - Hands of Time
Crickletown Brown - 3 AM Shuffle

 

premrock

 

Hey everyone, my band put out a new song called Sands of Time. It's about living life to the fullest before the sand runs out of the hourglass. It won't be everyone's cup of tea but you never know! RIYL: Killswitch Engage, Trivium, and Parkway Drive.

 

Blindside released a heavy, but melodic, new single today called "Dead Weight" via Wasa Recordings.

I'll also be checking out the new Anberlin w/ Matty Mullins re-recording Nevertake, and A Day To Remember's Big Ole Album Vol. 1.

Hope everyone has a nice Friday and an even better weekend ahead!

 

not much for me this week so mostly playing catch up, next week is stacked though

Men I Trust
Glazyhaze
Superheaven single
Wishy single

 

Jbrekkie
Pictoria Varke
Men I Trust

 

Bodybox
Corpus Offal
Glazyhaze
Imperial Triumphant
Japanese Breakfast
Pictoria Vark
Saba & No ID
SpiritWorld
Weatherday
YHWH Nailgun
Young Widows

 

Matty is a solid singer - I can't deny that - but...this album is not for me.

 

SO MANY GREAT RECORDS! Where do I even begin?!

I also want to uplift a fantastic post-rock/folk band here in North Carolina called Slow Teeth. They released their debut EP today and are opening for Explosions in the Sky in Raleigh on 3/23. Such a talented trio!

(Shameless plug: check my interview with them if you dig their sound)

 

The songs are so good, for me they could probably throw anyone up there as vocalist and I’d be interested in it. This is like the third or fourth rendition of this album between original, live and re-recorded or re-released, and I’m not tired of it. That early run of Anberlin albums is as strong as any other bands output IMO.

Listening now and enjoying it. I can see where those special moments on the original are missing, but then you get this different take on it with its own unique moments.

 

Check out the new Kyle Mooney record if you like his type of humor

 

Playing it through.. it's just missing that thing. It's not terrible and I appreciate his effort for sure but I agree, it's just not doing it for me. I couldn't even go to their tour when it came to Los Angeles because I knew it just wouldn't hit the same.

 

YHWH Nailgun Goes crazy

 

New song on streaming, RIYL: Thrice, Brand New, Cursive: