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 the middle of a fun, sweaty, exhausting, and amazing CONCERT SEASON. The outdoor shows are dehydrating us, sunburns turn to tan, and we are lost on nights we aren’t in a photopit.

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:

New albums mean new tours or extended tours *fingers crossed*. Let’s see which band has something new for you this week. 

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 AUGUST 16th, 2024

Friday, August 16

• Amy Shark — Sunday Sadness (Sony)
• Âscent — Gamma
• Avernus — Grievances (M-Theory)
• Bay Ledges — Rivers (Nettwerk)
• Beabadoobee — This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
• Bella White — Five For Silver (Rounder)
• Berenice — Berenice EP (APF)
• Blind Pilot — In the Shadow of the Holy Mountain (ATO Records)
• BOYNEXTDOOR — AND (KOZ Entertainment)
• CAIN — I’m So Blessed (Kids Version) (Single) – Provident
• Cemetery Filth — Senses Of Detriment
• Charly Bliss — Forever (Lucky Number)
• Chuck Johnson — Sun Glories (Western Vinyl)
• Combat — Stay Golden
• Creed — Human Clay 25th Anniversary Delux Edition (Craft) (Expanded 2CD reissue)
• Dan Tyminski — Dan Tyminski: Live From The Ryman (8 Track Entertainment and ADA/Warner Music Group)
• Dark Tranquility — Endtime Signals (Century Media)

• Death League — Inferno
• Delicate Steve — Delicate Steve Sings (Anti)
• Devon Allman — Miami Moon
• Eddy Puyol — El Shaddai (Single) – Independent
• Eisregen — Abart (Massacre)
• Extinction A.D. — To The Detested (Unique Leader)
• Falling In Reverse — Popular Monster (Epitaph)
• Family Dinner — God Looks Out For Fools (Other People Records)
• Foster the People — Paradise State of Mind (Atlantic)

• GEL — Persona EP (Blue Grape Music)
• Gerry and the Pacemakers — I Like It: Anthology 1963-66 (3CD box)
• Gucci Mane — Greatest Of All Trappers – Gangsta Grillz Edition
• Hail Darkness — Death Divine (Vatican)
• Hamish Hawk — A Firmer Hand (So Recordings)
• Heartline — Pink Lemonade
• Heavytrip — Where They Can’t See
• Horse Jumper of Love — Disaster Trick (Run For Cover Records)
• Hozier — Unaired
• Ill Niño — IllMortals: Volume 2
• Jumaane Smith — Come On Home
• Jontavious Willis — West Georgia Blues
• K. Yoshimatsu — Fossil Cocoon: The Music of K. Yoshimatsu (Phantom Limb)
• KATSEYE — SIS (Soft Is Strong) EP (HYBE)
• Lauren Daigle — Sessions (Centricity Music)

• Left To Suffer — Leap Of Death
• Lesibu Grand — Triggered (Kill Rock Stars)
• Lindsey Buckingham — 20th Century Lindsey (4CD box)
• Louis Cole — Nothing
• Mark Ambor — Rockwood
• Matty — POPS
• Maude Latour — Sugar Water
• Meghan Trainor — Timeless (Deluxe Edition)
• Memorrhage — Anyo
• Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding — Milton + Esperanza
• Missouri Executive Order 44 — Salt Sermon
• Morgan Wade — Obsessed (Ladylike Records)(Sony Music Nashville)
• Muscadine Bloodline —The Coastal Plain (Stancaster Music/Thirty Tigers.)
• Nikka Costa — Dirty Disco (Go Funk Yourself)
• NoCap — Before I Disappear Again
• Orion — The Lightbringers
• Orrin Evans — Walk A Mile In My Shoe
• Osees — SORCS 80
• Palehound — Live at First Congregational Church (Polyvinyl)
• Post Malone — F-1 Trillion (Mercury Records/Republic Records)

• Pom Poko — Champion
• Pouya — THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME HATE YOU
• Quando Rondo – Here for a Reason: In The Darkest Time
• Ray Lamontagne — Long Way Home (Liula Records)

• Reserate — Introspect
• Ritual — The Story Of Mr. Bogd – Part 1 (Karisma)
• Rosie Lowe — Lover, Other (Blue Flowers Music)
• Ryuichi Sakamoto — Opus
• Sarah Kroger — Ghost (Single) – Integrity Music
• The Script — Satellites (BMG)
• Sam Bowman — Crowley (Single) – Independent
• Shadecarrier — Despising The Shade
• Shelby Lynne — Consequences of the Crown (Monument Records)
• Sixpence None The Richer — We Are Love (Single) (Frontier)
• Steve Forbert — Daylight Savings Time (Blue Rose Music)
• Skinwalker — Man Walks Backwards Into The Ocean
• Steve Forbert — Daylight Savings Time
• Stoned Jesus — The Harvest Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
• Stoned Jesus — Seven Thunders Roar Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
• Sunscourge — Oracle Spectre — Crepuscular Rituals
• Tama Gucci — Notes to Self (Sinderlyn)
• Telenova — Time Is A Flower
• Ten Years After — Woodstock 1969
• Thermality — The Final Hours (Black Lodge)
• Thotcrime — Connection Anxiety (Prosthetic)

• Tinashe — Quantum Baby (Tinashe Music)
• Trench — Between Inverted Worlds (New Damage)
• Tunnels — Shadow Ten Degrees Backwards
• Ulvehunger — Retaliation (Darkness Shall Rise)
• Urban Heat — The Tower
• Vile Rites — Senescence
• The Wiggles — Wiggle & Learn (KOCH IMPORTS)
• Wishy — Triple Seven (Winspear)
• The Wldlfe — Heaven Is A Place, 2024
• WREX — This Hell Goes A Long Way Down
• YG — JUST RE’D UP 3
• Yosemite In Black — In Pursuit Of
• Yours Truly — TOXIC (UNFD)
• Zach Wilson — Keep Pressing On

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.