Happy Music Day! This week is a fun one. It’s sweat your rump of season time! 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:

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 June 21st, 2024

Friday, June 21st

• 22Gz – BROOKLYN’S MOST WANTED MIXTAPE*
• Alcest — Les Chants De L’Aurore (Nuclear Blast)
• Alice Ivy — Do What Makes You Happy
• Apifera — Keep the Outside Open
• Assimilator — Expelled Into Suffering
• Avril Lavigne — Greatest Hits (Sony Music Entertainment)

• Ben Hauke — Club Cute (Touching Bass)
• Binky Womack — 100%
• B.K.W.H — B.K.W.H (Beckwith)
• Black Veil Brides — Bleeders EP (Spinefarm)

• Brandon Lake — Tear Off The Roof (Live From the Holy City) – Provident
• Catpack — Catpack
• Cavalera (Sepultura’s Max and Iggor Cavalera) — Schizophrenia (Nuclear Blast)
• Charles Gayle, Milford Graves, and William Parker — WEBO (Black Editions)
• Club Kuru — Before the World (Dog Holiday Records)
• Cody Dickinson — Homemade (Petaluma Records)
• d’Eon — Leviathan (Hausu Mountain)
• Danava — Live (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• The Dangerous Summer — Gravity (Rude)
• Daniel Davies — Ghost of the Heart (Sacred Bones)
• Daryl Hall — D (Untied Artists Productions, Inc.)

• Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore — TexiCali (Yep Roc Records)
• dazegxd — exhibition mode
• DJ Lag — The Rebellion (Black Major x Ice Drop)
• Drop Nineteens — Delaware (Reissue)
• earthtone9 — In Resonance Nexus (Candlelight Records)
• Emilíana Torrini — Miss Flower (Groenland Records)
• Emily Faith — Parking Lot (Independent)
• Esham — Amuse-Bouche
• FEET — MAKE IT UP
• Foreign Hands — What’s Left Unsaid (SharpTone)
• Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention — Whiskey a Go Go, 1968 (3CD set)
• G-Eazy – Freak Show

• The Ghost Next Door — Classic Songs About Death and Dismemberment
• Gracie Abrams — The Secret of Us (Interscope Records)
• Grateful Dead — From the Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Edition)
• Grateful Dead — From The Mars Hotel: The Angel’s Share
• The Greeting Committee — Everyone’s Gone and I Know I’m The Cause (The Greeting Committee)
• Hayes Noble — As It Was, As We Were
• Hyperdontia — Harvest Of Malevolence (Dark Descent)
• Indus — Negra
• ionalee — Blund
• ionnalee — Close Your Eyes
• Islands — What Occurs (ELF)
• Jahnah Camille — i tried to freeze light, but only remember a girl EP (Winspear)
• Jelani Aryeh — The Sweater Club
• Jeremy Pope — Last Name:Pope
• Jethro Tull — Bursting Out: The Inflated Edition (expanded 3CD/3DVD reissue)
• Jim Lauderdale — My Favorite Place (Sky Crunch Records)
• Joe Gittleman — Hold Up (Bad Time Records)
• Joni Mitchell — The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) (Elektra/Asylum Records)
• The Joy — The Joy (Transgressive Records)
• Kai Tak — Designed in Heaven Made in Hong Kong
• Kaleb Frazier — TBD – People & Songs
• Karma Glider — Ocean Honey Violence EP
• Kate Nash — 9 Sad Symphonies (Kill Rock Stars)

• Kehlani — Crash (Atlantic)
• King Bastard — From Whence They Came
• Kittie — Fire (Sumerian)
• Kronos Quartet & Friends — Outer Spaceways Incorporated: Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra
• Kvaen — The Formless Fires (Metal Blade)
• Kygo — Kygo
• Lake Street Dive — Good Together (Fantasy Records)

• Lankum — Live in Dublin
• Lauren Watkins — The Heartbroken Record (Mercury Records/Republic Records)
• Lawrence — Family Business
• Lava La Rue — STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
• Linda Thompson — Proxy Music (StorySound Records)
• Little Stranger — Sat Around Trippin (Ineffable Records)
• Lizzen — On The Bus
• The Living Tombstone — Internet Childhood
• Lola Young — That Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway (Universal)
• Luna Shadows — Bathwater (Luna Shadows)
• Marillion — An Hour Before It’s Dark: Live in Port Zélande 2023 (earMusic)
• Marty — FLOP ERA VOL. 1 (Apollo)
• Matt B — AMANZI EP
• MEST — Youth
• Model Child — Get There!
• Moon Diagram — Cemetery Classics (Sonic Cathedral)
• The Mysterines — Afraid of Tomorrows

• Nathan Sheridan — He Is The Way (Single) – Independent
• Nightjar — Mala Leche (Lewis Recordings)
• O. — WeirdO
• Olivia O’Brien — Love & Limerence EP
• Pepe Deluxé — Comix Sonix (Catskills Records Ltd.)
• Peter Murphy — Peter Live – Vol One – Covers
• Peter Murphy — Peter Live – Vol Two – The Blender Theater NYC 2008
• POND — Stung! (Spinning Top Records)
• Portrait — The Host (Metal Blade)

• Queens of the Stone Age— Queens of the Stone Age (Vinyl Reissue)
• Replacire — The Center That Cannot Hold (Season Of Mist)
• Rich Ruth — Water Still Flows (Michael Ruth)
• Rob Baird — Burning in the Stars (Hard Luck Recording Company)
• Sade — Diamond Life (Vinyl Reissue)
• Sade — Promise (Vinyl Reissue)
• Sade — Stronger Than Pride (Vinyl Reissue)
• Samuel Shabazz — Plane Boy
• Seven Spires — A Fortress Called Home (Frontiers)
• Shane & Shane — Thy Word (Single) – Independent
• Sierra Green — Here We Are
• Sinach — Sounds of Victory- Independent
• Sis – Vibhuti
• Solpara — Melancholy Sabotage
• Steven Joubert — Land of the Living (Single) – Independent
• The Story So Far — I Want to Disappear (Pure Noise Records)
• Sub*T — Spring Skin EP
• Sufjan Stevens — Seven Swans (Deluxe Edition)
• Sunday Morning — Forget Me Nots EP
• Swerve — The Darkroom EP (The Darkroom Records)
• talker — I’m Telling You the Truth
• Thornhill — Live On Tour (UNFD)
• Until the Ribbon Breaks — V I S T O R
• The Used — MEDZ (Big Noise)

• Vanessa Bell Armstrong — Today
• Various Artists — Noise For Now Vol. 2 (Noise For Now)
• Various Artists — The Henry Mancini 100th Sessions — Henry Has Company
• Various Artists — Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty (Big Machine Label Group)
• Wage War — Stigma (Fearless Records)

• WALT DISCO — THE WARPING
• Wild Up — Julius Eastman Vol. 4: The Holy Presence (New Amsterdam)
• Wild Yaks — Monumental Deeds (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
• Within Temptation — Worlds Collide Tour, Live in Amsterdam
• Your Old Droog — Movie (REM-U-LAK RECORDS)
• ZSELA — BIG FOR YOU

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!