Happy Music Day! This week is another HUGE one. P-Diddy is rotting in a jail cell, 50 cent just sold the rights to the tell all book about what he knows. Foo Fighters have cancelled shows on the tail end of the affair and new lovechild scandal. Unfortunately, most of the Southeast has been severely affected by Hurricane Helene. Shutter 16’s headquarters is located in the midst of the chaos in Charlotte, NC. Many of our family and friends have been impacted. We have lost loved ones in the storm and know many others that are missing. If you are able to help in any way, we encourage you to contact the Red Cross or any local agency you find suitable. We will get through this and rebuild, but we can only do so with the help of our music community!

Back to this week in music….all the Bigs are putting out an album in the same week, oh me, oh my! 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 end of another fun, sweaty, exhausting, and amazing OUTDOOR CONCERT SEASON. The outdoor shows are dehydrating us, sunburns turn to tan, and we are lost on nights we aren’t in a photopit.

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:

Some on this playlist below:

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). Feel free to explore at your own risk and share your choices with us!

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

ALBUM RELEASE CALENDER OCTOBERB 4th, 2024

Friday, October 4th

• 1349 — The Wolf and the King
• A Place to Bury Strangers — Synthesizer

• Ada Lea — notes EP
• Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad — Jazz is Dead JID021 
• AFI — All Hallows E.P. (25^th Anniversary Edition)
• Alessandro Cortini — Nati Infiniti
• Alison Moyet — Key
• All Feels — This Place Is a Message
• Allt — From The New World (Century Media)
• Amnesia Scanner and Freeka Tet — HOAX
• Animal Collective — Sung Tongs (Vinyl Reissue)
• Animal Collective — Sung Tongs Live at the Theatre at Ace Hotel
• Anna Butterss — Mighty Vertebrate
• ANTISECT — In Darkness, There Is No Choice (Reissue)
• Aphex Twin — Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition)
• Balance and Composure — With You in Spirit
• The Barbarians Of California — And Now I’m Just Gnashing My Teeth (ONErpm)
• Benjamin William Hastings — Sold Out, Sincerely – Capitol
• Better Than Ezra — Friction, Baby (Vinyl Reissue)
• The Blood Brothers — Crimes (Vinyl Reissue)
• Blood Incarnation — Absolute Elsewhere
• Bobbie Dazzle — Fandabidozi (Rise Above)
• Brandon Sanders —The Tables Will Turn
• Brooke Alexx — Big Mouth
• The Bug — Machine
• Caribou — Honey
• Casual Male — Casual Male
• Chris Grey — THE CASTLE NEVER FALLS
• The Clearwater Swimmers — The Clearwater Swimmers
• Coldplay — Moon Music

• Cosmic Putrefaction — Emerald Fires Atop The Farewell Mountains (Profound Lore)
• cumgirl8 — [the] 8th cumming
• Cuneiform — Dark New Reward
• D-A-D — Speed Of Darkness (AFM)
• Daryl Mosley — Long Days & Short Storie (Pinecastle)
• David Shaw (of The Revivalists) — Take A Look Inside
• Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn — Quiet in a World Full of Noise
• Deonte Baker — Ready Now
• Devarrow — Heart Shaped Rock
• The Devil Wears Prada — With Roots Above and Branches Below (Vinyl Reissue)
• Don Henley — Building the Perfect Beast (40th Anniversary Edition)
• Drug Church — PRUDE
• Eric Clapton — Meanwhile (digital release)
• Ernie Haase and Signature Sound — Live In Memphis – Independent
• Fever 333 — Darker White

• FINNEAS — For Cryin’ Out Loud
• Fleetwood Mac — Heroes Are Hard to Find (clear vinyl reissue)
• Foreigner — Turning Back the Time
• Genevieve Stokes — With A Lightning Strike
• Geordie Greep (of black midi) — The New Sound
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor — NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD
• Good Neighbours — Good Neighbours EP
• Half Waif — See You at the Maypole
• The Hard Quartet (feat. Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White) — The Hard Quartet
• Hanson — Underneath: Complete
• Harriet — Trying To Get The Feeling Again
• Hazlett — Goodbye to the Valley
• Heliograph — Unity (Single) – Independent
• Hermano (feat. Kyuss’ John Garcia) — when the moon was high…
• High Reeper — Renewed By Death
• Hiro Ama — Music for Peace and Harmony
• hopeful. — Wild One (Single) – Independent
• Human Impact (feat. members of Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, and Daughters) — Gone Dark
• I Ya Toyah – DRAMA
• Ivy 2 – Less Precious
• Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit — Live From The Ryman Vol. 2 (Southeastern)
• JD Allen — The Dark, the Light, the Grey and the Colorful
• Jett Holden — The Phoenix (Black Opry Records)
• Joan Shelley — Mood Ring EP
• Johnny Yukon — i’m having fun <3 EP
• Jon Shabaglian — Adonai (Single) – Independent
• Jonah Yano — Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop
• Joni Mitchell — Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)
• Jordan Feliz — Everything Good – Centricity Music
• Joyer — I See Forward and Back EP
• Katastro — Until the End of Time
• LEA — Von der Schönheit und Zerbrechlichkeit der Dinge
• Leon Bridges — Leon
• Lisa Schonberg — Old Growth Playback
• Little Big Town — The Christmas Record
• LIVLØS — The Crescent King
• Lords Of The Trident — V.G.E.P. EP (Self)
• The Low Sixes — The Oshawa Tree
• Lydia Laird — The Heavy. The Healing. The Holding. — Wings
• Master Peace — How To Make A(nuva) Master Peace EP
• Mastodon — Crack The Skye (15th Anniversary)

• Matthew West — Don’t Stop Praying – Capitol
• Maxïmo Park — Stream Of Life
• mclusky — the difference between me and you is that i’m not on fire (Vinyl Reissue)
• Memorials — Memorial Waterslides
• Meredith Andrews — The Lamb, The Lion, The King (Single) – Curb|Word
• Michael Love Michael — Bruiser
• Michael Mayo — Fly
• Midland — Fragments
• Mötley Crüe — Cancelled EP
• Myles Sanko — Let It Unfold
• Naked Giants — Shine Away
• Nate Smith — California Gold (RCA Nashville)
• Neil Young — Arc (Vinyl Reissue)
• Neil Young — Freedom (Vinyl Reissue)
• Neil Young — Ragged Glory (Vinyl Reissue)
• Neil Young — Weld (Vinyl Reissue)
• The New Roses — Attracted To Danger (Napalm)
• Nick Ward — House with the Blue Door
• Nonconnah — Nonconnah vs. The Spring of Deception
• OneDa — Formula OneDa
• Orla Gartland — Everybody Needs A Hero
• Palomino Blond — You Feel It Too
• Pharmakon — Maggot Mass
• Phil Wickham — Shepherd Boy (Single) – Fair Trade
• Presence — Tears in the Moshpit!
• Public Service Broadcasting — The Last Flight
• Rat Boy — Suburbia Calling
• Restless Spirit — The Doomed And The Dead…Live EP (Magnetic Eye)
• Ro The Soul Diamond — Voice of Future’s Past
• Rod Stewart — Merry Christmas, Baby (Anniversary Edition)
• Rome Streetz and Daringer — Hatton Garden Holdup
• Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 — Heavier Yet lies the Crownless Head
• Sex Swing — Golden Triangle
• SIRA* — Songs for the End of the World
• Sixpence None the Richer — Rosemary Hill EP
• Sleater-Kinney — Little Rope Deluxe
• The Smile — Cutouts

• Soror Dolorosa — Mond (Prophecy)
• Spencer Sutherland — The Drama
• Steve Kilbey (of The Church) — Bespoke Wheels and Winged Heels
• Suede — Dog Man Star (30th Anniversary Edition)
• Telescreens — 7
• Temples — Other Structures EP
• Texas Hippie Coalition — Gunsmoke (MNRK Heavy)
• Thee Sacred Souls — Got A Story to Tell
• Tony Vaz — Pretty Side of the Ugly Life
• Toosii — JADED
• Torena — No Control (Daze)
• Town Of Lake — Lilac (Self)
• Trash Boat — Heaven Can Wait
• Various Artists — Bad Monkey (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)
• Various Artists — Better Than Jail
• Victoria Monet — Jaguar II Deluxe
• The Wild Feathers — Sirens
• Weval — Night Versions EP
• Wild Pink — Dulling the Horns
• Wind Rose — Trollslayer (Napalm)
• Xiu Xiu — 130
• Yasmin Williams — Acadia
• yunè pinku — Scarlet Lamb EP
• ZZ Ward — Mother EP

Here is a non-comprehensive list of upcoming album releases extending into 2025 that we are eagerly anticipating. This is not an exhaustive list, and many more releases are yet to be announced/added here.

October 11th:

— Charli XCX – Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat
— Jelly Roll – Beautifully Broken
— Opeth – The Last Will and Testamen
— RÜFÜS DU SOL – Inhale / Exhale
— The Offspring – SUPERCHARGED

October 18th:
— Bon Iver – SABLE, EP
— Bishop Briggs – Tell My Therapist I’m Fine
— Joe Jonas – Music For People Who Believe in Love
— Kylie Minogue – Tension II
— Phantogram – Memory of a Day
— Shawn Mendes – Shawn

October 25th:
— 311 – Full Bloom
— Atreyu – The Pronoia Sessions
— Devin Townsend – PowerNerd
— Fit For An Autopsy – The Nothing That Is
— Flashmob – Sundown
— Halsey – The Great Impersonator
— JC Chasez (of *NSYNC) and Jimmy Harry – Playing With Fire
— Josh Lovelace (of NEEDTOBREATHE) – SHELTERS
— The Oak Ridge Boys – Mama’s Boys
— Pixies – The Night the Zombies Came
— Soccer Mommy – Evergreen
— Whitesnake – Into the Light: The Solo Albums

November 1st:

— The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
— Elvis Costello – King of America & Other Realms
— Warren Haynes – Million Voices Whisper
— Willie Nelson – Last Leaf on the Tree

November 8th:

— BoyWithUke – Burnout
— Skillet – Revolution
— Yonder Mountain String Band – Nowhere Next

November 15th:

— As I Lay Dying – Through Storms Ahead
— BANKS – Goddess Unplugged
— Brooks & Dunn – Reboot 2
— Bryan Adams – Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2024
— Dwight Yoakam – Brighter Days
— Gwen Stefani – Bouquet
— Nickelback – Live From Nashville
— Sister Hazel – Sand, Sea & Crash Debris
— St. Vincent – Todos Nacen Gritando
— Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Challengers Original Score (Vinyl Release)

November 22nd:

— Father John Misty – Mahashmashana
— Marilyn Manson – One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1
— Opeth – The Last Will & Testament

November 29th:

— U2 – How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb
— Yacht Rock Revue – Escape Artist

December 13th:
— The National – Rome

2025
January 10th:

— Franz Ferdinand – The Human Fear
— Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How

January 17th:

— David Gray – Dear Life

January 24th:

— Eric Clapton – Meanwhile
— FKA twigs – Eusexua
— flipturn – Burnout Days
— Larkin Poe – Bloom

February 7th:

— JOHNNYSWIM – When The War Is Over

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.