Happy Music Day! This week is a fun one. It’s sweat your rump of season time – my goodness it’s so freaking hot! My personal calendar is a conglomerate of nearly every genre of music, festival, and comedy special that a decade ago I would have dreamed would be my life. Welcome to another start of a fun, sweaty, exhausting, and amazing CONCERT SEASON. The outdoor shows are back in full force and with that so are tours. Tours many times mean new albums to promote. Let’s see which band has something new for you this week. 

In these tiny moments I get to hear new music that gets my heart revving, this week’s contenders were hard to narrow down, but a few are:

Forget a few we are focusing on the goat. I’m a bit sad to think this might be the end to new music from Eminem as he finally kills Slim, but we are here for ALL the new music.

Eminem – The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)

What album are you most looking forward to? Comment below!

To wrap up this week, we’ve got some much-anticipated arrivals that have us tapping our toes, crossing our arms, and screeching, “Finally!” We’re sure you can see which ones we think you should grab and which ones we think may deserve a pass (cough). Dive in at your own risk, and let’s hear your picks!

**All dates are for U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Dates are subject to change. 

ALBUM RELEASE CALENDAR July 12th, 2024

Friday, July 12th

• $NOT — Viceroy
• Action Bronson — Johann Sebastian Bachlava Thе Doctor
• Adrian Marcel — Rnbay Szn EP
• The Allman Brothers Band — Manley Field House, Syracuse University, April 7, 1972 (2CD set)
• Amorphis — Tales From The Thousand Lakes (Live At Tavastia) (Reigning Phoenix)
• Ananda Mida — Live At Duna Jam (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Andrew Star — Psychopathy
• Armlock — Seashell Angel Lucky Charm (Run For Cover Records)
• The Astronomers & sammy rash — nowhere to be
• Artemas — Yustyna
• Autumn! — You Never Was Mine
• Axxis — Coming Home (Phonotraxx Publishing)
• Bette Smith — Goodthing (Bette Smith)
• Billy Strings — Live Vol. 1 (Reprise Records)
• Black Capricorn — Sacrifice Darkness…and Fire (Majestic Mountain)
• BLP KOSHER — Scarecrow
• Bones Owens — Love Out of Lemons (Thirty Tigers)
• Budderside — White Flame (Self)
• Casper Caan — Last Chance (Levicaan Music)
• Cassadee Pope — Hereditary (Awake Music)

• Cassandra Jenkins — My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
• Cassandra Lewis — Lost in a Dream (Elektra)
• Cat Burns — Early Twenties (Since 93/RCA)
• Chris Cohen — Paint a Room (Hardly Art)
• Cigarettes After Sex — X’s (Partisan)
• Clairo — Charm (Clairo Records LLC)
• Clown Sounds — Par For The Curse
• Color Green — Fool’s Parade (New West Records)
• Common & Pete Rock — The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)

• Crazy Town — The Gift of Game (Vinyl Reissue)
• Daniel Pemberton – Fly Me to the Moon (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film)
• Deer Tick — Contractual Obligations EP (ATO Records)
• The Dip — Love Direction
• DJ Boring — DJ-Kicks (!K7 Records)
• The Donnas — Spend the Night (Vinyl Reissue)
• Donovan Woods — Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now (End Times Music)
• Drew Parker — Camouflage Cowboy (Warner Nashville)
• Elevation Worship — When Wind Meets Fire
• Eminem – The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)
• ENHYPEN — ROMANCE : UNTOLD
• Forgotten Tomb — Nightfloating (Agonia)
• Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention — Whisky a Go Go, 1968
• Future Utopia — Django’s High (70Hz Recordings)
• Girl Ultra — blush EP (Big Dada)
• Graphic Nature — Who Are You When No One Is Watching?
• Griff — Vertigo
• Gurriers — Come and See (No Filter)
• Hak Baker — Nostalgia Death EP Act I (AWAL Recordings)
• HARDY — Quit!! (Big Loud Rock)

Who we just saw put on an amazing performance at PNC Music Pavilion (Charlotte, NC)

See coverage here: HARDY Lights Up Charlotte

• In Hearts Wake — Incarnation (UNFD)
• In the Valley Below — The Black Moon (In The Valley Below)
• ira glass — compound turbulence flexing for the heat EP
• Jay Worthy and Dām-Funk — Magic Hour
• Jewel — The Portal: A Meditative Journey EP

• Jim Peterik [Survivor/Ides of March] — Roots & Shoots Vol. 1 (with Night Ranger’s Kelly Keagy, 38 Special’s Don Barnes, Grand Funk’s Mark Farner)
• Kommandant — Exhibition Of Conquest (ATMF)
• Jimmy Buffett — A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean (Vinyl Reissue)
• Jimmy Buffett — Banana Wind (Vinyl Reissue)
• Jimmy Buffett — Havana Daydreamin’ (Vinyl Reissue)
• Joe Goddard — Harmonics (Domino)
• John Lennon — Mind Games – The Ultimate Collection
• John Summit — Comfort in Chaos
• Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) — Passage Du Desir
• JoJo Siwa — Guilty Pleasure EP

• Juicy J & Xavier Wulf — Memphis Zoo
• Julia Holter — Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Back Lot Music)
• Katy Kirby — Blue Raspberry (Deluxe)
• Katy Perry — Woman’s World

• Kenzie Cait — good luck, goodbye
• KUČKA — Can You Hear Me Dreaming? (LUCKYME®)
• Land of Talk – Applause Cheer Boo Hiss: The Definitive Edition
• Linda Sikhakhane — Iladi (Blue Note Records)
• Lonnie Walker — Easy Easy Easy Easy
• Lord Buffalo — Holus Bolus (Blues Funeral Recordings)
• Lou Phelps — Top Z EP
• Lou Reed — Hudson River Wind Meditations (remastered reissue)
• Louis Armstrong — Louis in London
• Macseal — Permanent Repeat (Counter Intuitive Records)
• Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells — Together (Vinyl Reissue)
• Megan Moroney — Am I Okay? (Sony Music Nashville)
• Meridian Brothers — Mi Latinoamérica Sufre (Ansonia Records)
• Metronomy — Posse EP Volume 2 (Ninja Tune)
• Mr. Big — Ten (Frontiers)

• Northbound — Juniper (Smartpunk Records)
• Obscene — Agony and Wounds (Nameless Grave Records)
• Odie Leigh — Carrier Pigeon (Mom+Pop)
• OneRepublic — Artificial Paradise (Mosley Music/Interscope Records)
• ORB — Tailem Bend (Fuzz Club)
• Orquesta Akokán — Caracoles (Daptone Records)
• 潘 PAN (fka Aristophanes) — Pan th Pansexual
• Patrick Higgins — Versus (Other People)
• Pavement — Cautionary Tales: Jukebox Classiques (Physical Release)
• Peni Candra Rini — Wulansih (New Amsterdam)
• Phish — Evolve (Phish Inc)

• Plutocracy Planet — Plutocracy Planet (Self)
• Psychotic Waltz — Into The Everflow Re-Release (InsideOut)
• Psychotic Waltz — Mosquito Re-Release (InsideOut)
• Psychotic Waltz — To Chase The Stars (Demos 1987-1989) (InsideOut)
• Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen — Hold My Beer, Vol. 4 EP (LilBuddy Toons)
• Rema — HEIS
• Remi Wolf — Big Ideas (Island)
• salute — TRUE MAGIC (Ninja Tune)
• Seth — La France des Maudits (Season Of Mist)
• Skelethal — Within Corrosive Continuums (Hells Headbangers)
• Sophie Powers and Baby Tate — Glitch: Lvl 1 EP
• SOTE — Sound System Persepoli
• SPEED — Only One Mode (Flatspot Records)
• Steve Earle — Alone Again (Live) (Howe Sound Records/Missing Piece Records)
• Styx and Foreigner — Renegades & Juke Box Heroes
• Sueco — Attempted Lover

• The Supremes — I Hear A Symphony (Vinyl Reissue)
• Susan James — Time Is Now (SJM)
• Sydney Sherrill — Luckiest Girl Alive EP
• Tech N9ne — COSM (CLASS OF STRANGE MUSIC) (Strange Music)
• The Temptations — Cloud Nine (Vinyl Reissue)
• Testament — The Legacy (Remastered 2024)
• Testament — The New Order (Remastered 2024)
• Tim Montana — Savage (Music Knox Records)
• Tom Verlaine (of Television) — Around (Vinyl Reissue)
• Totengott — Beyond The Veil (Hammerheart)
• Travis — L.A. Times (BMG)

• Trevor Horn [Yes/Buggles] — Echoes: Ancient and Modern
• Trousdale — Out Of My Mind Deluxe
• Turin — The Unforgiving Reality In Nothing (MNRK Heavy)
• Uncle Kracker — Coffee & Beer
• Unlike Pluto — Pluto Tapes: Volume 4
• Van Halen — For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (Expanded Edition)
• Vanhelgd — Atropos Doctrina (Dark Descent)
• Vincent Ingala — Escape with Me
• Water From Your Eyes — MP3 Player 1 EP
• Webbed Wing — Vol. III (Memory Music)
• Whethan — Life of a Wallflower, Vol. 2
• Windwalker — Hyperviolence (Fearless)
• Zacari — Bliss (Zacari)

Until next week!

**Have an album coming out soon we should feature? Let us know! Indie, Regional, National – as long as you aren’t recording on an iPhone, hit us up! PSA – CD RELEASE SHOWS are our jam.

Check out our latest TIKTOK posts to see a recap of this week’s staff picks.