The Bad Penny (beta)

12.19.25

Blood of the Wolf – V: Indomitable (Horror Pain Gore Death)
• Exclusive Song Premiere: Blood of the Wolf’s ‘Oath of Supremacy’

Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso – Top of the Hills

Imperatore – Lionspirit (Rockshots)

Monster Magnet – Superjudge, Dopes to Infinity, Powertrip and God Says No eight-LP box set ([PIAS])

Nemorous – What Remains When Hope Has Failed (Bindrune)

Olde Outlier – From Shallow Lives to Shallow Graves (Iron Bonehead)

Pythonic – Decomposition EP (self-releasee)

Starscourge – Conqueror of the Stars; Betwixt Sundered Seraphim, the Lands Between Bleed

Strawberry Alarm Clock – Blow Your Mind single (Big Stir)
• Song Premiere: Strawberry Alarm Clock’s ‘Monsters’

Weft – Splintered Oar (Bindrune)

12.22.25

Gravetaker – Sheer Lunacy (Iron Bonehead) 

12.26.25

Tsunami Bomb and Hammerbombs split 7-inch (Rad Girlfriend)

VA – Stranger Things: Soundtrack From the Netflix Series, Season 5, Volume 2 (Sony Legacy)

12.28.25

Paul Beaudoin + Ümlaut – Cairn (Audiobulb)

12.31.25

Ulver – Neverland digital edition (House of Mythology)

1.1.26

Fonville x Fribush – s/t EP (Regime)

VA – Stranger Things: Soundtrack From the Netflix Series, Season 5, Volume 3 (also features Volumes 1 and 2) (Sony Legacy)

1.2.26

Ellende – Zerfall (AOP)

Paleface Swiss – Wilted EP

1.6.26

Wanted Noise – Burn the Time Away single

1.7.26

Epica – Aspiral Oracle (Nuclear Blast)

1.8.26

Melancholy Kings – Her Favorite Disguise (vinyl edition) (Magic Door)

1.9.26

Beyond the Black – Break the Silence (Nuclear Blast)

Bullet – Kickstarter (Steamhammer)

Calling All Captains – Things That I’ve Lost EP (New Damage)

Deadwood – Rituals of a Dying Light (Innerstrength)

Dry Cleaning – Secret Love (4AD)

Iotunn – Waves Over Copenhell (Metal Blade)

Kid Laroi – Before I Forget (Columbia)

Killgurls – Powder EP (Adventure Cat)

Pullman (feat. members of Tortoise, Come) – III (Western Vinyl)

Robert Stillman (of the Smile) – 10,000 Rivers (Ordinal)

Stranguliatorius – Flies Don’t Lie (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)

Voidhämmer – Noxious Emissions (Caligari)

ZU – Ferrum Sidereum (House of Mythology)

1.11.26

Dhärä – Elemental Four

1.12.26

David Boring – Liminal Beings and Their Echoes Damnably (Un.Tomorrow)

1.13.26

Lifeguard – Ultra Violence/ Appetite single (Matador)

1.15.26

Cub – Come Out Come Out remastered reissue (Mint)

1.16.26

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore – Tragic Magic (InFiné)

Sylvia Black – Shadowtime

Blanket – True Blue (Adventure Cat)

Carrion Vael – Slay Utterly (Unique Leader)

Cavetown – Running With Scissors

Death Dealer – Blast the Highway single (Massacre)

Demons My Friends – Demons Seem to Gather reissue (Ripple)

Divine Regale – Horizons + Window reissue (M-Theory)

Eternal (feat. members of Amorphis) – Celestial EP (Reigning Phoenix)
• Amorphis Bassist Says It’s Impossible for AI to Create ‘Real Metal Music’

Gluecifer – Same Drug New High (Steamhammer)

Godzillionaire – Negative Balance (Ripple)

Gylt – In 1,000 Agonies, I Exist EP (Get Better)

Steve “H” Hogarth (of Marillion) – SPQR (Ear Music)

David Huckfelt – I Was Born, but … (feat. Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker) (Don Giovanni)

James Hunter Six – Off the Fence (feat. Van Morrison) (Easy Eye)

I Promised the World – s/t EP (Rise)

In a House of Heartbeats – Divination of Dreams (Ripcord)

Kreator – Krushers of the World (Nuclear Blast)

Langhone Slim – Dreamin’ Kind (Dualtone)

Madison Beer – Locket (Epic)

Marianas Rest – Bereaved (Noble Demon)

Archy Marshall – New Place 2 Drown 10th Anniversary vinyl edition (XL)

Mike Mattison (of Tedeschi Trucks) – Turn a Midnight Corner (Landslide)

Lizzy McAlpine – Older (and Wiser) deluxe edition

Novembre – Words of Indigo (Peaceville)

Oxis – 8 (Boom)

Palais Ideal – Here&Now (Dark Vinyl)

Peaer – Doppelgänger (Danger Collective)

Philippe Drouin Obvurt – Le Chemin Du Gaucher

Greg Rahn – Side Hustle (Harmony Pacific)

Esther Rose – That’s My DJ/ Heather (New West)

Sassy 009 – Dreamer+ (feat. Blood Orange, Yunè Pinku) ([PIAS] Électronique/ Heaven-Sent) 

Sha La Das – Your Picture reissue (Diamond West)

Sleaford Mods – Demise of Planet X (Rough Trade)

Together Pangea – Eat Myself (Nettwerk)

Total Annihilation – Mountains of Madness (Testimony)

Vienna Vienna – Entertain Me EP (Pulse/DCD2)

Void Monuments – Posthumous Imprecation (Blood Harvest)

Warning – Watching from a Distance (Deluxe 20th Anniversary Reissue limited-edition four-LP box set) (Relapse)

Westside Cowboy – So Much Country ‘Till We Get There EP (Adventure/Island)

Nat & Alex Wolff – s/t

Woo – Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong expanded reissue (IPR)

Wormy – Shark River (Rose Garden)

1.21.26

Maria Somerville – Luster (Remixes) EP (4AD)

1.23.26

42 Dugg – TBA mixtape (CMG/4PF/Interscope)

Alkaloid – Bach Out of Bounds (Season of Mist)

Erykah Badu – Mama’s Gun limited-edition vinyl reissues (UMe)

Sammy Brue – Journals (Bloodshot)

Cat Power – Redux EP (vinyl and digital editions) (Domino)

Colossal Rains – Feral Sorrow (Memory)

Damned – Not Like Everybody Else (feat. covers of Iggy & The Stooges, the Kinks) (earMUSIC)

Death Dealer – Reign of Steel (Massacre)

Enduser – Unquiet (Decay)

Gros Enfant Mort – Le Sang des Pierres (Moment of Collapse)

Tom Hamilton – I’m Your Vampire (AWAL/Relix)

Becca Hannah – Tonight in My Dreams

.idk. – E.T.D.S. (Even the Devil Smiles) mixtape (feat. MF Doom, RZA)

Institution D.O.L. – Agape :93: (Edged Circle)

Jo Passed – Away

Julian Lage – Scenes From Above (feat. John Medeski) (prod. by Joe Henry) (Blue Note)

Ari Lennox – Vacancy (Interscope)

Lowest Pair – Always as Young as We’ll Ever Be

Megadeth – s/t (Tradecraft/BLKIIBLK)

New Mexican Doom Cult – Zaggurat (Majestic Mountain)

New Miserable Experience (feat. members of Revocation, Rivers of Nihil) – Gild the Lily (Pelagic)

Pelican – Ascending EP (feat. Geoff Rickley) (Run for Cover)

Poppy – Empty Hands (Sumerian)

Reggie – Undra (RCA)

Ritual Arcana (feat. members of Saint Vitus, Black Lips) – s/t (Heavy Psych)

Rocky & the Sweden – Punks Pot Heads; and Early Years Single Collection 1997-1999, God Save the Green and Total Hard Core reissues (Relapse)

Searows – Death in the Business of Whaling (Last Recordings on Earth)

Sigh – Ghastly Funeral Theatre reissue (Peaceville)

Ski Team – Burnout/Boys

Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden (half-speed remaster) (Rhino)

Temptress – Hear (Blues Funeral)

Textures (feat. ex-Delain’s Charlotte Wessels) – Genotype (KScope)

VA – Naive Melodies: Talking Heads Tribute (feat. W.I.T.C.H., Pachyman) (BBE)

Vanishment – And Now We Die

Victoryland – My Heart Is a Room With No Cameras in It (Good English)

Lucinda Williams – World’s Gone Wrong (Highway 20/ Thirty Tigers)

Willis – Locals 5

1.26.26

Invictus – Nocturnal Visions (Memento Mori/ Me Saco Un Ojo)

Malignant Aura – Where All of Worth Comes to Wither (Memento Mori/ Grindhead /Primitive Moth)

1.28.26

Awful Din – Anti Body (We’re Trying)

1.29.26

Adiós Cometa – Un Destello de Luz (Steadfast)

1.30.26

Abissi – Paramagia (Octopus Rising)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl 20th Anniversary Box Set [PIAS]
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: The Wild Ones

Blackwater Holylight – Not Here Not Gone (Suicide Squeeze)
• Blackwater Holylight’s ‘If You Only Knew’ EP: Two Cent Review

Cast – Yeah Yeah Yeah (Scruff of the Neck)

Citrinitas – Unending Descent (Caligari)

Cold Paradise – Waking Up single (Perception)

Course of Fate – Behind the Eclipse (ROAR!)

Telle Dame – Wasted Time single (Paper Garden)

Tashi Dorji – Low Clouds Hang, This Land Is on Fire (Drag City)

Willa Ford – O Holy Night single

Marta Del Grandi – Dream Life (Fire)

Warren Haynes – Tales of Ordinary Madness remixed and remastered reissue (Megaforce)

Hér – Monochrome (Season of Mist)

ER Jurken – To Be Continued (Drag City/ Country Thyme)

Kula Shaker – Wormslayer

Lone Wanderer – Exequiae (High Roller)

MØL – Dreamcrush (Nuclear Blast)

Steve Poltz – Joyride (Redhouse)

Qasu – A Bleak King Cometh (Phantom Limb/ Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
• Best New Music Videos (November 2025): Marissa Nadler, Earthbound, Earl Sweatshirt

Sam Quealy – Jawbreaker

Quicksand – Manic Compression 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition vinyl reissue (Iodine)

Ailbhe Reddy – Kiss Big (Don Giovanni)

Joel Ross – Gospel Music (Blue Note)

Rusowsky – Live From NPR’s Tiny Desk bundle

Salt Collective – Brief History of Blindness (feat. Andy Partridge, Aimee Mann) (Propeller Sound)

Shine – Wrathcult (Dark Descent)

Soft Pink Truth (Matmos‘ Drew Daniel) – Can Such Delightful Times Go on Forever? (Thrill Jockey)

Soulive – Flowers (Flóki Studios)

Stabbing – Eon of Obscenity (Metal Blade)

Tacoblaster – Digital Fun-Zone! (Flippin’ Freaks/ Howlin’ Banana/ Les Disques du Paradis)
• Best New Music Videos (November 2025): Marissa Nadler, Earthbound, Earl Sweatshirt

Tarlung – Axis Mundi (Argonauta)

Sébastien Tellier – Kiss the Beast (feat. Slayyyter & Nile Rodgers) (Because)

Tyler Ballgame – For the First Time, Again (Rough Trade)

Van Hunt – Flowers (Flóki Studios)

Whitelands – Sunlight Echoes (Sonic Cathedral)

Ye Vagabonds – All Tied Together (River Lea)

2.4.26

All the Dawn Vampires – Vicecore

2.6.26

Grace Annabella Anderson – Art, Baby

Big Big Train – Woodcut (InsideOut)

Blossoms Fall – La Alma EP (Eclipse)

Oliver Coates – Pillion OST physical edition (A24)

Cyclone – Known Unto God EP (M-Theory)

Robert Deeble – Space Between Us (Mind Bomb Publishing)
• On Tyranny: Singer/Songwriter Robert Deeble Claims ‘Faith-Based Social Justice Work Has Been Lost,’ Creating Power Vacuum for Autocrats

Dirt Buyer – III (Bayonet)

Hermano (feat. John Garcia) – Clisson, France (Ripple)

Grownup Noise – No Straight Line in the Universe

Lomor – Sabouk Rouge (Rockshots)

Mayhem – Liturgy of Death

Mors Verum – Canvas (Transcending Obscurity)

Mount Palatine – Wormholy World (Octopus/Argonauta)

Puma Blue – Croak Dream ([PIAS])

Puscifer – Normal Isn’t (Puscifer Entertainment/ Alchemy/ BMG)

Ratboys – Singin’ to an Empty Chair (New West)

Thistle Sifter – Forever the Optimist (Freia)

Ulrick Spacek – Expo (Full Time Hobby)

Uncultivates – This Will Become Clear Later, Like The French Revolution (Horsebox)

Unsane – Occupational Hazard (Lamb Unlimited)

VA – Soldatenschicksale (Century Media)

2.13.26

Ásgeir – Julia

Angel Du$t – Cold 2 the Touch (Run for Cover) 
• Father John Misty, Drug Church, Angel Du$t, White Reaper, Mclusky Confirmed for Boise’s Treefort Music Fest

Paul Anka – Inspirations of Life and Love (Green Hill/ Sun Label)

B2K – TBA (BPC)

Black Heart Procession – 1 reissue (Solid Brass)

Boy Golden – Best of Our Possible Lives (feat. Pino Palladino) (Six Shooter)

Chet Faker – Love for Strangers (BMG)

Clay Street Unit – Sin & Squalor (Leo33)

Converge – Love Is Not Enough (Deathwish/Epitaph)

Chris Garneau – In Reverse (Orchard/ Rough Trade)

Ernte – Der Schwarzen Flamme Vermächtnis (Purity Through Fire)

Good Sleepy – Constant Humming (self-release)

Hellacopters – Cream of the Crap!: Collected Non-Album Works • Volume 3 (Nuclear Blast)

Katzin – Buckaroo (Mexican Summer)

Last Dinosaurs – Wellnxss 10th Anniversary Edition (Nettwerk)

Lone Bellow – What a Time to Be Alive

Mariachi el Bronx – IV (ATO)

Mumford & Sons – Prizefighter (feat. Chris Stapleton, Hozier) (Glassnote)

Nude Party – Look Who’s Back

Paranoid Style – Known Associates (Bar/None)
• Paranoid Style’s ‘Interrogator’: Two Cent Review

Pilgrims – Gemini (self-release)

Ponte Del Diavolo – De Venom Natura (Season of Mist)

Slaughterday – Dread Emperor (Testimony)

Aaron Shaw – And So It Is (Leaving)

Velocity Girl – ¡Simpatico! (Remastered and Expanded) (Sub Pop)

Worm – Necropalace (Century Media)

Yellow Days – Rock and a Hard Place (Independent Co.)

2.14.26

Sub Focus – Contact (with Grimes, John Summit)

2.16.26

Death of Youth – Nothing Is the Same Anymore (Sell the Heart)

2.19.26

Rusty Santos – Psycho Horses (self-release)

2.20.26

Abronia – Shapes Unravel (Cardinal Fuzz & Feeding Tube)

Tori Amos – Strange Little Girls (Expanded Edition) (Rhino)

Apparat – Hum of Maybe (Mute)

Bizarrekult – Alt Som Finnes (feat. guest vocals from Dødheimsgard, MØL, Predatory Void) (Season of Mist Underground Activists)

Clawfinger – Before We All Die (Perception)

Dusk – Bunker

Lightning Stills – s/t (Max Trax)

Spencer Mackenzie – Empty Chairs (Gypsy Soul)

Jeffrey Martin – Alive July 25, 2025 (Fluff & Gravy/ Loose)

MX Lonely – All Monsters (Julia’s War)

Lisa O’Neill – Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right EP (12-inch vinyl edition) (Rough Trade)

George Michael – Faith vinyl reissue

Nytt Land – Aba Khan (Prophecy)

Peaches – No Lube So Rude (Kill Rock Stars)

Phasma – Purgatory (Transcending Obscurity)

Record Company – Give It Back to You deluxe expanded reissue (Craft)

Steven Brown (of Tuxedomoon) – In This Very World ([PIAS]/ Crammed Discs)

Sylosis – New Flesh (Nuclear Blast)

2.27.26

Crooked Fingers – Swet Deth (Merge)

Gena (Karriem Riggins & Liv.e) – Pleasure Is Yours Out (Lex)

Gorillaz – Mountain (Kong)

Jupe Jupe – King of Sorrows (No-Count)

Magoo – What a Life

Maria BC – Marathon (Sacred Bones)

Melonball – Take Care (Thousand Island)

Ethan Regan – North American Greed (Live) EP (Columbia)

Rose’s Pawn Shop – American Seams

MF Grimm – Hunt for the Gingerbread Man vinyl edition (Coalmine)

Michael Rudd – Ways of the World (Invisible Road)

Sigh – Hail Horror Hail reissue (Peaceville)

Sodom – Get What You Deserve reissue (Noise/BMG)

Speglas – Endarkenment, Being & Death (Trust No One)

Taroug – Chott (Denovali)

Tōth – And the Voice Said (co-produced by Caroline Rose) (Egghunt Northern Spy) 

Triple Blind – Cold Walk (AISA)

Ulver – Neverland physical edition (House of Mythology)

Unverkalt – Héréditaire (Season of Mist)

Volumes – Mirror Touch (physical edition) (Fearless)

Weedpecker – V (Heavy Psych)

Rob Zombie – Great Satan (Nuclear Blast)

3.3.26

Aukai – Chambers (Apapachoa)

3.6.26

Travis Bolt – Burning Bridges (Gravel Road)

Desert Storm – Buried Under the Weight of Reason (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Hater – Mosquito (Fire)

Joshua Idehen – I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got to Try (Heavenly)

Mute Swan – Skin Slip (Hit the North Records/ [PIAS])

Oathbound – Colors in Grey (Eclipse)

3.12.26

This Lonesome Paradise – Death Motels (Bad Vibes Good Friends)

3.13.26

Crushuman – Besides (Horror Pain Gore Death)

Malinowski – Under a Landslide of Stars (Dine Alone)

Messticator – Total Mastery (Testimony)

Monosphere – Amnesia (self-release)

Notwist – News From Planet Zombie (Morr)

Orielles – Only You Left (Heavenly)

Schattenmann – Endgegnerm (Perception)

Sweet Pill – Still There’s a Glow (Hopeless)

Tenderness – True (Amorphous Sounds)

Traitrs – Possessor

3.20.26

Axel Rudi Pell – Ghost Town (Steamhammer)

Colleen – Libres Antes Del Final (Thrill Jockey)

Gladie – No Need to Be Lonely (produced by Jeff Rosenstock) (Get Better)

Jacob the Horse – At Least It’s Almost Over

Joshua Burnside – It’s Not Going to Be Okay (Nettwerk)

Footballhead – Weight of the Truth (Tiny Engines)

Ladytron – Paradises (Nettwerk)

More Eaze – Sentence Structure in the Country (Thrill Jockey)

3.27.26

Krooked Kings – In Another Life

Niklas Paschburg – L’écho De Bretagne (Nettwerk)

Tigers Jaw – Lost on You (Hopeless)

4.3.26

Commitment (feat. members of Soul Glo, Eye Flys) – Fear Of (Get Better)

4.10.26

Joe Jackson – Hope and Fury (earMUSIC)

Nukem – Grave Remains (Redefining Darkness)

Tigercub – Nets to Catch the Wind (Loosegroove)

4.17.26

Tired of Fighting – And Then Suddenly It Hits You (Punkerton)

Victorius – World War Dinosaur (Perception)

4.24.26

Anubis – Anthromorphicide (M-Theory)

HighWay – Last Call for Rock’N’Roll

Meghan Trainor – Toy With Me (Epic)

5.15.26

Karma Effect – Cruel Intentions (Earache)

Slayer – Hell Awaits (40th Anniversary Edition) (vinyl, CD box sets) (Metal Blade)

6.6.26

Devilz by Definition – Devilz Knight (SelfMadeRecords)

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Previously Issued Releases

10.23.25

SPEED’s All My Angels EP (Flatspot)

Cold Equations – Satellite single (Sweet Cheetah) 

David J & the Resistance (feat. members of Spoon, Bauhaus) – ICE Too Cold to Thaw single (No Devotion)

Foo Fighters – Asking for a Friend single (Roswell/RCA)
• Exclusive: Fu-Schnickens Finally Re-Form for Foo Fighters Fest

Leif Vollebeek – Southern Star single (feat. Aurora)

Sampha – Cumulus/Memory single (Young)

Sophs – I’m Your Fiend single (Rough Trade)

Speed – All My Angels EP (Flatspot)

Terence Etc. – Wants & Needs EP (Brainfeeder)s

10.24.25

Jim White’s Inner Day (Drag City)

Björk – Cornucopia Live

Cautious Clay – Hours: Night (Fantasy) 

Depeche Mode – Memento Mori: Mexico City

Drofnosura – Ritual of Split Tongues (Transcending Obscurity)

Everything but the Everything – A&B Sides Volume 3

Flycatcher – Wrench

Just Mustard – We Were Just Here (Partisan)

Kinneret – Field Guide

Len Price 3 – Misty Medway Magick (Wicked Cool)

Meric Long (of the Dodos) – Kablooey (Polyvinyl)

Monte Booker – Noise (Meaning)

Muñeca – Deseo un Brillo EP 

Necronemesis and Gangrenesia – Putrid Sanctity EP (Horror Pain Gore Death)

Charlie Nieland (collaborator of Blondie, Scissor Sisters) – Stories From the Borderlines (Athame Music)
• “On Tyranny: Charlie Nieland on How LGBTQ+ Artists Can Push Back Against ICE, MAGA“

Sleepytime Trio – Memory Minus Plus Minus (Lovitt/ Solid Brass)

Spirit of Goodwill Band – s/t EP (Aesthetic Form: Goodwill)

Tori Martin – Last Night in Laredo single (LuckySky)

Tuesday the Sky (Fates Warning’s Jim Matheos) – Indoor Enthusiast (Metal Blade)

Jim White (of Dirty Three) – Inner Day (Drag City)
• Dirty Three Drummer Jim White Is a Legend Who Refuses to ‘Be Comfortable’

10.25.25

Maren Morris – People Still Show Up single (cowritten with and produced by Jack Antonoff; Columbia)

10.27.25

Alarmist – new single (UTM)

10.28.25

夢遊病者 – РЛБ30011922 (PBV)
• free download

10.29.25

Aesop Rock – Heard It’s a Mess There Too (Rhymesayers)

Blue Zero (feat. Marbled Eye members) – Confusion EP (self-release)

10.30.25

Pest – Eternal Nightmares (Heidens Hart) 

10.31.25

Too Much Joy’s Son of Sam I Am (self-release)

Archaic Thorn – Malicious Spears (High Roller) 

Black Cat’s Eye – Decrypting Dreams of Weird Animals and Strange Objects (Tonzonen)

Black Polish – Yuna (BMG)

Bloom – Light We Chase (Pure Noise)

Cemican – U_k’u’uk’ankil_Mayakaaj (M-Theory)

Despised Icon – Shadow Work (Nuclear Blast)

Electric Callboy – Tanzneid single

Friendship – Chaos Outside (Free Association Remixes) EP (Merge)

Frontierer – Orange Mathematics (Redux) (self-release)
• free download

Gazpacho – Magic 8-Ball (Kscope)

Heraldic Blaze – Monument of Will (Purity Through Fire) 

KeiyaA – Hooke’s Law (XL)

Marshmallow Ghosts – When Death Arrives: Five Nightmares vinyl edition (Graveface)

Outlaw – Opus Mortis (AOP)

Radiohead – Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009 vinyl edition

Sad – Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening (Purity Through Fire)

Saintseneca – Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs (Lame-O)
• Saintseneca’s ‘Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs’: Two Cent Review

Slug Boys – Listen to Slug Boys (Oslo Syndrome)

Spectres of Desire – Incursions EP (Sweet Cheetah)

Starlight Ritual – Rogue Angels (High Roller)

Tape Trash – Eden (Tiny Engines)

Too Much Joy – Son of Sam I Am (Tommy’s Version) reissue (People Suck)
• Too Much Joy’s Bassist Cracks the Code to Chat Pile’s Success
• On Tyranny: Too Much Joy Discuss the Existential Ruin That MAGA Has Inflicted Upon Us

Trivium – Struck Dead EP (Roadrunner)
• Trivium’s Lyrics Don’t Make Any Sense

Walking Bombs – Blessings Bestrewn Part 2 (self-release)
• On Tyranny: Walking Bombs Goes Off (for Good Reason), Says Nazis Need to Be Afraid to Be in Public

11.1.25

Adrian Lane – Their Ghosts and Ours (Audiobulb)

11.5.25

Smerz – Big City Life Edits (feat. They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Clairo) (Escho)

11.6.25

Death Angel – Cult of the Used single (Nuclear Blast)

Miracle Blood – LIVE at New Alliance Audio EP (self-release)
• free download on Bandcamp

11.7.25

Sorry’s Cosplay (Domino)

37 Houses – Strangers EP
• 37 Houses Live With a Pooch That Weighs 17 Lb. and Is About to Turn 17
• Video Interview: Watch 37 Houses’ Husband and Wife Play Ad Hoc ‘Newlywed Game’

601 – We Are Not the Same (SeeHear)

84 Days – s/t (Double Helix)

Armand Hammer and the Alchemist (feat. Earl Sweatshirt, Pink Sifu) – Mercy (Backwoodz Studioz/ Rhymesayers)

Astronoid – Stargod (3DOT)

AudioGust – Falling From Down

Bearings – Comfort Company (Pure Noise)

Danz CM – Lärm! (CAM Sugar/ Synth History)

Doug Bielmeier – Electric Rodeo Revival

Brian House – Everyday Infrasound in an Uncertain World (Gruenrekorder)

Deconstructing Sequence – Tenebris Cosmicis Tempora (Black Lion)

Denial of Life – Witness the Power EP (Creator-Destructor)

Stella Donnelly – Love and Fortune (Remote Control)

Glorious Depravity – Death Never Sleeps (Transcending Obscurity)

Hirons – Future Perfect EP (Western Vinyl) 

Hüsker Dü – 1985: The Miracle Year box set (Numero Group)

Joe’s Truck Stop – The Magnolia Sessions (Anti-Corp)

Mist – Dark Side of the Soul (An Anatomy of the Soul) (Alma Mater)

Møtrik – Earth (Jealous Butcher)

Mynabirds – It’s Okay To Go Back if You Keep Moving Forward (Our Secret Handshake) 

Night Resident – Total Obscurity (self-release)

Oromet – The Sinking Isle (Hypaethral Records/ Transylvanian Recordings)

Pigeon Pit – Leash Aggression (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)

Primordial – Live in New York (Metal Blade)

Pupil Slicer – Fleshwork (Prosthetic)

Recollection – Vivid Dreams EP (Pop Wig) 

Sessa – Pequena Vertigem de Amor (Mexican Summer) 

Slash – Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival (earMUSIC)

Sorry – Cosplay (Domino) 

Teeth Marks – Raise/Wreck/Rebuild/Raze (Better Days Will Haunt You)

Temple of Love – Songs of Love and Despair (Reptile House)

Test Dept – State of Affairs: Peel Session single (Artoffact)

T.O.Y. – Night & Day single (Artoffact)

Unwell – Allegoria (Pure Noise)

Westerman – Jackal’s Wedding (Partisan) 

Coleman Williams – Magnolia Sessions (Anti-Corp)

11.10.25

Ingested – Nefarious Tongues single (Metal Blade)

11.11.25

Caroline – Caroline 2 (Deluxe) (Rough Trade)

11.12.25

Robyn – Dopamine single (Remote Control)

Rose of the World – Heaven Is a Broken Heart (Sad Cactus)
• free Bandcamp download

11.13.25

Life Cycles – The End Still Awaits single (1126)

Reticent – Please (Generation Prog) 

11.14.25

Avett Brothers and Mike Patton’s AVTT/PTTN (Thirty Tigers/ Ramseur/ Ipecac)

5 Seconds of Summer – Everyone’s a Star! (Republic)

Alissia – Hypnotic Night (feat. Nile Rodgers and Earthgang) single

Auditory Anguish – AFA (Creator-Destructor)

Avalon – How to Lie single

Avett Brothers and Mike Patton – AVTT/PTTN (Thirty Tigers/ Ramseur/ Ipecac)
• Mike Patton Word Search: A Tribute to the 40-Year Music Maestro
• Mike Patton and Duane Denison Talk Tomahawk ‘Downtime’
• ‘Bands Don’t Make a Living Off Record Sales’: Mike Patton, Greg Werckman Reflect on Ipecac

Avoid – Creature of Habit EP (UNFD)

Roy Ayers – Secrets of the Sun (limited-edition vinyl and digital versions) (UMe)

Badsoma – s/t EP

Asha Banks – How Real Was It? EP (Island)

Sara Bareilles – Salt Then Sour Then Sweet single

Beatrix – Dead Dog single

Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin – Stygian Bough: Vol 2 (Profound Lore)

Better Lovers – Highly Irresponsible deluxe edition (SharpTone)

Black Crowes – Amorica deluxe box set reissue (UMe)

Blondshell – Another Picture (feat. Conor Oberst, Samia) (Partisan)

Brenn! – Footing single (Darkroom)

Leon Bridges – This Christmas I’m Coming Home (with Norah Jones) and A Merry Black Christmas (Columbia)

Lola Brooke – iight bet! (Team Eighty/ Arista)

Bros. Landreth – Dog Ear (Birthday Cake Media)

Lewis Capaldi – Survive EP (Capitol)

Captain Buckles – Hurry Up

Candi Carpenter – Friday Night (Three Stacks on the Radio) single

Celeste – Woman of Faces (Blue Note/ Capitol)

Chairmaker – Leviathan Carcass (self-release) 
• On Tyranny: Scotland Grindcore Artist Chairmaker Channels Anger Over Fascism Toward Helping Immigrants

Cheap Trick – All Washed Up (BMG)

Lucia Cifarelli – Girls Like Me (Alleykat Remix) single (Metropolis)

Circle Jerks – Golden Shower of Hits reissue (Trust)

Ruby Colley with Exaudi – Hello Halo (New Amsterdam)

Ashley Cooke – Ace (Big Loud/ Back Blocks)

Creatures – II (High Roller)

Cyclist Conspiracy – Back to Hermetics and Martial Arts Vol 1 (Subsound)

Cytrus – Duality

Ethan Daniel Davidson – Lear (Blue Arrow)

Mikaela Davis – 11:11 single (Kill Rock Stars)

Dead Daisies – Live at Stonedead

Tyce Delk – Enough Ain’t Enough EP (River House Artists)

Dress & Tie (Stephen Sanchez and Devi) – s/t EP (Mercury)

Drive-by Truckers – Definitive Decoration Day (four-LP box set) (New West)

Elmiene – Heat the Streets Some Mo’ remix EP (Def Jam)

Family Vision – Lace EP (Good English)

FearDorian and Osquinn – Before You Press Play (3500)

Sam Feldt, Mc4d, Vize and Aloe Blacc – Hey Son single

Dominic Fike – White Keys single (Columbia)

Fimbul Winter (feat. ex-Amon Amarth members ) – What Once Was EP 
• Fimbul Winter Has Come; Ex-Amon Amarth Players Call EP ‘Best Thing’ They’ve Recorded
• Exclusive: Ex-Amon Amarth Drummer Pays Tribute to At the Gates’ Tomas Lindberg With a Riotous Recollection
• Fimbul Winter’s Ex-Amon Amarth Members Name Their Favorite Amon Amarth Songs

FKA Twigs – Eusexua Afterglow (Atlantic/ Young Recordings)

Rami Gabriel – Dadad EP (Sooper)

Vince Gill – Secondhand Smoke EP (feat. the War & Treaty, Mary Gauthier)

Girli – Better Underdressed single

Glixen – Medicine Bow single

Goldfinger – Chasing Amy single (Big Noise/ Virgin)

Grasshopper Lies Heavy – HEAVY (Learning Curve)
• On Tyranny: Grasshopper Lies Heavy Guitarist/Vocalist Preps for ‘Dealing With the Fallout of New American Fascism’ Till He Dies

Great American Ghost – Scars single

Green Day – Warning (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Warner)

Josh Groban – Hidden Gems (Reprise)

Sophia Hansen-Knarhoi – Undertow (Ba Da Bing)

Lawrence Hart – Asking for a Friend mixtape (Domino/ Double Six)

Matt Hitt (of Drowners) – You’ll Be Lucky EP (produced by The Vaccines’ Timothy Lanham) (Killphonic)

Home Front – Watch It Die (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos)

HRTLSS – Breathe Me In single (Papercut)

Johnny Huynh – All I Saw Was You (feat. Jessica Baio) single (Columbia)

Billy Idol and J. Ralph – Dying to Live single

Ilajan – Les Ronces (Humus)

Ima Robot – Search and Destroy (Community)

Gabriel Jacoby – Gutta Child EP (Pulse)

Jaguar Sun & Jesse Maranger – Blossom EP (Born Losers)

Jamie XX – In Colours (10th Anniversary Edition) (Remote Control)

Yves Jarvis – All Cylinders (Deluxe) (In Real Life)

Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy 40th anniversary remastered vinyl edition (Third Man)

Jessie Kilguss – They Have A Howard Johnson’s There

John-Robert – Cross Stitch EP

Kim Theory – Bitch Scene EP

Lavisher – Aligned & Vital (Nefarious Industries)

Leila – Courtesy of Choice ۲۵… asides and besides (25th anniversary) (Remote Control)

Lethwei – Vol. 1 (Horror Pain Gore Death)

Lia Kohl – Various Small Whistles and a Song (Dauw)

LeoStayTrill – Last Quarter EP (Interscope Capitol)

Lethwei (feat. members of Noisem, Dwelling Below) – Lethwei Vol. 1 (Horror Pain Gore Productions)

Love Your Witch – Radio Fanasia

Low End Activist – Airdrop II (Peak Oil)

Lush – Gala (35th Anniversary Edition) (4AD)
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Hannah McFarland – Called It single (Interscope Capitol)

Bobby Mahoney – Smoke and Drive b/w Machine Gun Blues single (Wicked Cool)

Maraudeur – Flaschenträger (Feel It)

Mausoleum Gate – Space, Rituals and Magick (Cruz Del Sur)

Max & Andy Grammer – Thing I Love single

Dave McMurray – I Love Life Even When I’m Hurting (Blue Note)

Men Without Hats – Men Without Hats on the Moon (Shocore Music/ MWH Entertainment)

Mezzrow – Embrace the Awakening (ROAR)

Sydney Ross Mitchell – Cynthia single (Disruptor)

Momma – Welcome to My Blue Sky (Deluxe Edition) (Polyvinyl/ Lucky Number)

Mourn the Light – Sorrow Feeds the Silence (Argonauta)

Pete Muller – One Last Dance (Two Truths)

Murals – s/t EP (Equal Vision)

Jessie Murph – Sex Hysteria (Deluxe) (Columbia)

Narrator – Aurora single (Nuclear Blast)

Needtobreathe – Where You Call Home single (MCA)

Negative Blast – Destroy Yourself for Fun (Three.One.G)

Neighbourhood – (((((ultraSOUND))))) (Warner)

Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna (UltraDisc One-Step vinyl box set) (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)

Night in Athens – Anxiety single (feat. Porcelain Dancer) (Artoffact)

Nuclear Dudes (feat. members of High on Fire, Melvins) – Skeletal Blasphemy (Ghost Is Clear)

Of Mice & Men – Another Miracle (Century Media)

Joy Oladokun – I’d Miss the Birds single (acoustic version feat. Sheryl Crow)

Osiah – Aion EP (Unique Leader)

Pavement – Hecklers Choice and Pavements OST (Matador)

Carly Pearce – Dreams Come True single (Big Machine)

Kate Pierson (of B-52s) – People Have the Power single (feat. Teen Choir Uniting Voices Chicago) (proceeds benefit Uniting Voices Chicago and Sandy Hook Promise)

Porch Coffin – Dogs Bite EP

Runo Plum – Patching (Winspear)

PRYVT – Back to Reality (AWAL)

Ben Quad – Wisher (Pure Noise)

Ramonda Hammer – Wake Up, Play Nice EP

Raw Brigade – 100% (Flatspot)

Real Bad Man & Tobi – Perfect Blue (Real Bad Man)

Corrina Repp – Activity Dream: Instrumentals On The Guitar Vol 1 (Jealous Butcher)

Return to Dust – Speak Like the Dead EP

Rolling Stones – Black and Blue (Super Deluxe Box Set) (Interscope/UMe)

Sydney Rose – Holiday single (Mercury)

Runarounds – Chasing the Good Times single (co-written and produced by Cage the Elephant’s Brad Shultz)

Saltwound – Appartion (feat. Great American Ghost’s Ethan Harrison) single

Samurai Pizza Cats – City of Gold single (Century Media)

Shaggy – Boom Body single (feat. Akon and Aidonia) (VP)

Ivan Shopov, Carmen Rizzo and Dhani Harrison – Ascending Into Silence (feat. New Bulgarian Voices as conducted by Georgi Petkov) (limited vinyl edition)

Showing Teeth – Labyrinth single

Sister Ray Davies – Holy Island (Sonic Cathedral)

Skillet Release – O Come, O Come Emmanuel single

Smirk – Domestic Dog b/w Manhunt in Paradise single (Industry Standards)
• free on Bandcamp

Dean Spunt (of No Age) – OCCII Dokie EP (Drag City)

Star Card – Trash World (Already Dead)

Jae Stephens – Total Sellout: Deluxe (Def Jam)

Stellar Circuits – Phantom::Phoenix (Nuclear Blast)

Still Machine – Echoes Within (digital edition) (Someoddpilot)

Sword II – Electric Hour (Section1)

Tomás Tomás – Sweet Sleep EP

Town Mountain – Live From Drop of Sun EP (New West)

Trace Amount – Flagrant (Bleakhouse)

Tyce Delk – Enough Ain’t Enough EP (River House)

Carrie Underwood – Some Hearts 20th Anniversary Edition (vinyl and digital editions) (Legacy)

Tanner Usney – Run Run Rudolph single

VA – QC Christmas EP (feat. EJ Jones, Syamali) (Quality Control)

Veilburner – Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy (Transcending Obscurity)

Via (feat. members of Come, Six Finger Satellite) – s/t (Dromedary)

Bryce Vine – Superman single (feat. Tony Hawk and Goldfinger)

Wale – Everything Is a Lot. (feat. Leon Thomas, Ty Dolla $ign) (Def Jam)

Warfield (feat. She Wants Revenge‘s Justin Warfield) – Deathrock Devotionals Vol. II EP (Black Heathers/ Cleopatra)

Warp Chamber/ Benothing – split single (Carbonized)

Torri Weidinger – Bunny With Tunnel Vision (AWAL)

Don West – Give Me All Your Love (Mandatory)

Where’s West? – Cast Out a Line single (East Iris)

Your Inland Empire – s/t (Season of Mist)

11.17.25

Diles Que No Me Maten – Manos de piedra (revisitada) single (Moonlight Activities)

11.18.25

3 Headed Snake (feat. ex-members of Ministry and Montrose) – Catharsis

Bad Omens – Left for Good single (Sumerian)

Kneecap – No Comment single (feat. Sub Focus) (Heavenly)

Mika – Modern Times single (Republic)

xSERAPHx – In Certainty/ New Life Transcribed 7-inch (Daze/Ephyra)

Sheppard – Champagne Supernova single

Shinedown – Searchlight single (Atlantic)

11.19.25

Colle$Ttye and Wiz Khalifa – Bluntonomics single (D36)

Ruby Colley – Hello Halo (New Amsterdam)

Endpoint – Catharsis remastered deluxe reissue (Equal Vision)

Lisa O’Neill – Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right EP (digital edition) (Rough Trade)

Lowsunday – Innocence (2025 electro mix) (Projekt)

Major Murphy – Like a Wrecking Ball single

Sugar Horse – What’s Your ETA? Let’s Have a Tear Up single (Fat Dracula)

Sword Tongue – Diamonds to Dust (Anthony H. Remix) single

Tria Prima – The Mortificatio
• On Tyranny: Ukrianian Band Tria Prima Fighting Russian Aggression with Art Instead of Armaments

Zeke Bleek – Great State of Dismay EP (prod. by Butch Vig)

Zhavia – Sailor Song single

11.20.25

Itches – House Animal Included (Wap Shoo Wap/ Belly Button)

11.21.25

Suncraft’s Welcome to the Coven (All Good Clean)

54 Ultra – Find Your Love single

Adele Dazeem – Metanoia EP (Sonic Cathedral)

Aerosmith + Yungblud – One More Time EP (Capitol)

Aittala – Gotten Gains EP (Exitus Stratagem)

Aksak Maboul - Before Aksak Maboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977) (La Bascule/ Crammed Lab)

Winter Andrews – ‘Til the Moon Fades Away EP

Arny Margret – I Miss You, I Do: Sjáumst Deluxe Edition (One Little Independent Records)

Bastille – Save My Soul single (Republic)

Beatles – Anthology Collection and Anthology 4 (Apple/Capitol/UMe)

Between the Buried and Me – Blue Nowhere (Deluxe Edition) (InsideOutMusic)

Bicycle Inn – Long in the Tooth

Big Bill – Sick Myth (TODO)

Birch – Vicious Mind (Tonzonen/Cargo)

Blindman – Best Way single (VP)

Bodysnatcher – Blade Between the Teeth single (MNRK)

Bouncing Souls – Home for the Holidays single

Boys Life – Ordinary Wars EP (Spartan)

Brokedowns – Let’s Tip the Landlord (Red Scare)

Capsize – Fracture single (Roux & Ruin)

Ray Charles – No One Does It Like … Ray Charles! (Tangerine)

Cholita and Skillibeng – Without You (Mixpak)

Coilguns – Live at Rock in Bourlon 2025 (Humus)

Common Law (feat.ex-Drug Cabin and Ambulance LTD’s Marcus Congleton) – EP (401K)

Crying City – Voted Out single (Mercury)

Danko Jones – Leo Rising (Perception)

Darktribe – Forgotten Reveries (Scarlet)

Depravity – Bestial Possession (Transcending Obscurity)
• free Bandcamp download

Descendents – I Don’t Want to Grow Up reissue (Org Music)

AP Dhillon – Hitmen single (feat. Shinda Kahlon) (Republic)

Trap Dickey – Mike Beasley single

Dome Runner – World Panopticon (Svart)

Don Broco – Euphoria single (Fearless)

Double Tiger – Love Garden single (Easy Star)

Dr. Elvis Francois – Sound of Christmas EP

Est Gee – Thug Club single (CMG/Interscope)

Everclear – Sparkle and Fade 30th Anniversary Remastered Deluxe Edition (Universal)

Fabiano Do Nascimento – Cavejaz (Leaving)

Gift – Illuminator deluxe edition (Captured Tracks)

Goose – Live at Madison Square Garden (digital edition)

Grouper – Way They Crept repress (Kranky)

Hell’s Kitchen – Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas single (Alicia Keys/ Interscope)

Drew & Ellie Holcomb – I’ll Be Home for Christmas EP

Jennifer Hudson – Gift of Love (Extended Holiday Edition)

Ilajan – Les Ronces (Humus)

In Virtue – Age of Legends (feat. members of Revocation, Entheos) (self-release)

Itches – House Animal Included (Wap Shoo Wap/ Belly Button)

Jerry’s Middle Finger – Jerry Day Live at Sweetwater 8/1/24

Laney Jones and the Spirits – s/t

Kesha – Animal + Cannibal (15th Anniversary Edition) (RCA/Legacy)

King Canutes – Eastern Seaboard, Perfect Summer (Magic Door)

Chip Kinman – s/t (In the Red)

Kiss – Alive! (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (UMe)

Lamb of God – Pasasocial Christ single (Epic)

Gilles Laval – 100 Guitares Sur Un Bateau Ivre (100 Guitars on a Drunken Boat) (Cuneiform)

Pip Lewis – Baby Teeth (Stripped) single (Enci)

Loud Luxury – Love You for Life single (with Emily Roberts) (Casablanca)

Loveress – Mirage Palace (Humus)

Magic Fig – Valerian Tea (Exploding in Sound)

Major Lazer – Gyalgebra mixtape (Mad Decent)

Arny Margaret – I Miss You, I Do (Sjáumst Edition) (One Little Independent Records)

Medium Build – Takeaways EP expanded version (slowplay/Island)

Messiness – s/t (Tarla/StoneFree)

Midnight Til Morning – Afterglow (Unplugged) EP and Afterglow (Deluxe)

Morbikon – Lost Within the Astral Crypts (Tankcrimes)

Kyle Mooney – Winter’s Wish EP

My Ticket Home – Pure to a Fault

Aya Nakamura – Destinée (feat. Kali Uchis, Shenseea) (Nakamura Industrie/ Warner Music France)

Nowhere2run – Bloodrave EP

Old Crow Medicine Show – OCMS XMAS

Overmono – Paradise Runner single (XL)

Tristan Perich & James McVinnie – Infinity Gradient (Five Worlds)

Pretty Wild – Zero.Point.Genesis (Sumerian)

Rainshadower – Charred Scars

Remove (feat. Léa Martinez) – Endless (Humus)

Rico Nasty – Pepper single (Fueled by Ramen)

Tommy Richman – Worlds Apart* EP (ISO Supremacy/ Pulse)

Rune – Depth Perception EP (UNFD)

Sainted Sinners – High on Fire (ROAR)

Lou Salome – Something You Cared About In High School (Babe City)

Satin Puppets – Tonight You Belong to Me single (Adventure Cat)

SCAB – Somebody In New York Loves You! (Grind Select)

Shab – Skin & Bones Remix EP

Shores of Null and Convocation – Latitudes of Sorrow split EP (Everlasting Spew) 

Silhouette – s/t (Get Better)

Skrillex – Hit Me Where It Hurts X (feat. Caroline Polachek, Dylan Brady) EP

Slaughterday – Terrified EP (Testimony) 

Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (30th Anniversary Deluxe Vinyl Reissue)

Lauren Spencer Smith – Last First Christmas single (Island)

Neil Soiland – Neil Soiland Presents: The Soul Family Band EP (Honest Tone)

Spanish Love Songs – A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time EP x(Pure Noise)

Bo Staloch – Eastside single (Capitol)

Stare at the Clouds – Patient: Fray single (self-release)

Mae Stephens – Done With U single

Still Blank – s/t (National Anthem/ Capitol)

Stone Nomads – Desolate Lands (Ripple)

Stray Kids – Skz It Tape ‘Do It’ (Jyp/Imperial/Republic)

Sunbender – Crime Wave single (ENCI)

Suncraft – Welcome to the Coven (All Good Clean) 

Tems – Love Is a Kingdom (RCA/ Since ’93)

Test Dept – Shockwork/Workshock (Live at Albany Empire [Deptford]) remaster (Artoffact)

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – Know Better Learn Faster (15th Anniversary Remaster) (Kill Rock Stars)

Jacob Tolliver – Here Comes Santa Claus single

Train – Christmas in Tahoe (10th Anniversary Edition) (Legacy)

Randy Travis – Where My Heart Is single (Warner Bros. Nashville)

Tuxedomoon – Desire 45th anniversary reissue ([PIAS]/ Crammed Discs)

VA – Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas single (Alicia Keys/ Interscope)

VA – Lullaby Renditions of Ariana Grande (Rockabye Baby!)

VA – Wicked: For Good OST (Republic/Verve)

Victony – Very Stubborn EP

Rufus Wainwright – I’m a Stranger Here Myself; Wainwright Does Well (Pacific Jazz Orchestra/ Thirty Tigers)

Wasted Wizards – To the City single

Winds of Neptune – s/t (Small Stone)

Yakiyn – Calculate single (Interscope Capitol)

Elie Zoé – Shifting Forms (Humus)

11.24.25

Parent Teacher – NVD//A single

Velvetcut – Great Chameleon (New Skin) (reimagined edition of 2025’sThe Great Chameleon) (Rockhopper)

11.25.25

Crown Magnetar – Desecrate Infinite single

Pete Fij – Love’s Coming Back single (digital edition)

Andrew Jim Gannon (fka On Man) – As the Years Roll Back single

Happy Family – Just a Stair/ The Great Sword of Responsibility (Cuneiform)

Lemon Twigs – I’ve Got a Broken Heart single (Captured Tracks)

Moons in Retrograde – Third Side of the Coin

Null Club – Overgrown (feat. Miss Grit) single

Scissorgun – Scream if You Wanna Go Faster (Dimple Discs)

Turnpike Troubadours – Just Like Old Times single

Upon Wings – Velvet Shadow single

11.26.25

Belushi Speed Ball – Stellkira: Editioñ Extra De Luxe (Game Boy Advance)

Big Special – Dragged Up a Hill (And Thrown Down the Other Side) single

Curse of Cain – 80M Underground (Roar)

Dharma Guns – Devil’s Beat single

Earthbøund – Separate Existence single (self-release)
• free download

Humankind – Black Sands single (Roar)

Lil Poppa – Sprite on the Nightstand single (Interscope/Capitol)

Master’s Hammer – Maldorör Disco (Darkness Shall Rise)

Scythed – Defiance single (Grand Sounds)

11.27.25

Absolute Keyand Brånd – Collaboration (Into Endless Chaos)

Alexander James McLean (AJ McLean of Backstreet Boys) – Hi, My Name Is Alex EP

James Tonic – Safety

11.28.25 (Record Store Day)

Perdition Temple’s Malign Apotheosis (Hells Headbangers)

1349 – Winter Mass (Black Metal Promotion)

Aktor – Professori (Season Two) (High Roller)

Alexisonfire – House of Strombo (Live in Toronto, ON 2019) (Dine Alone)

All We Leave Behind – In Absence of Light (Octopus Rising)

Amerakin Overdose – Feliz Navidad single

Ancient Settlers – Autumnus (Revisited) EP (Scarlet)

Autopsy – Shitfun 30th anniversary vinyl edition (Peaceville)

Black Magic Tree – Terra (Majestic Mountain)

Blackbear – Britney in ’07 single

Blut Aus Nord – Ethereal Horizons (Debemur Morti)

Bratmobile – Real Janelle & The Peel Session vinyl reissue (Kill Rock Stars)

Melissa Carper – Very Carper Christmas (Soundly)

City and Colour – Sometimes Lullaby (Dine Alone)

Crash Richard – Sensitive Devil

Nick D’Virgilio – Rewiring Genesis: Tribute to The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Inside Out)

Dead and Dripping – Nefarious Scintillations (Transcending Obscurity)
• free download

Equilibrium – Equinox (Nuclear Blast) 

Excide – Bastard Hymns (SharpTone)

Jimmy Fallon – Ugly Holiday Sweater single (feat. Carter Faith)

Feel Worse (feat. members of Sulaco, Sully and Burn Everything) – This Will Weigh Heavily On Your Annual Performance Appraisal

Pete Fij – Love’s Coming Back single (limited-edition vinyl edition)

Flowerovlove – Wishlist single (Capitol)

Josh Freese – Just a Minute, Vol. 2 (Loosegroove)

Guns N’ Roses – Live Era ’87-’93 vinyl box set (UMe/Geffen)

Head and the Heart – Ghosts in the Machinery (Verve Forecast)

Marlon Hoffstadt x Peter Xan – Hold You Close single (Interscope Capitol)

Jason Isbell – Sirens of the Ditch deluxe edition (New West)

Louis Jucker – Pharmacy of Songs (Humus)
• free Bandcamp download

Kaunis Kuolematon – Kun Valo Minussa Kuoli (Noble Demon)

La Luz – Extra! Extra! EP (Sub Pop)
• Treble review

Mathias ‘Vreth’ Lillmåns (Finntroll frontman) – Remains (Stormbound)

Lisa Hilton Quintet – Extended Daydream (Ruby Slippers)

Mad Max – Heavy Metal reissue (Roar)

Madonna – Bedtime Stories; Untold Chapter (Warner)

Male//Gaze – Too Late Now (self-release)

Melancholy Kings – Her Favorite Disguise (digital edition) (Magic Door)

Mr. Fantasy – Catapult single

Jordan Mullaney (Crystal Casino Band bassist) – This Christmas Will Run on Its Own/ I Like You, Doug single

Nornes – Thou Hast Done Nothing (Sleeping Church)

Novembre – Blue vinyl edition (Peaceville)

Old Crow Medicine Show – OCMS XMAS limited-edition 7-inch

Old Dead Tree – London Sessions EP (Season of Mist)

Perdition Temple – Malign Apotheosis (Hells Headbangers) 

Petey USA – Case of Yips (produced by Chris Walla)

Queen – Night at the Opera 50th anniversary limited-edition vinyl reissue (Hollywood)

Ralph Champagne Revue (feat. Blag Dahlia) – Grinch (Picture Disc LP) (Rad Girlfriend/ Greedy)

Romeo Santos and Prince Royce – Better Late Than Never

Ivan Shopov, Carmen Rizzo and Dhani Harrison – Ascending Into Silence (feat. New Bulgarian Voices as conducted by Georgi Petkov) (streaming version only)

Shuga – Montego Bay single (VP)

Sigh – Infidel Art 30th anniversary vinyl, two-CD and cassette editions (Peaceville)
• Sigh Frontman Says ‘There’s No Way to Get Away From Death’
• … And You Will Know Us by the Trail Of Dead, Sigh, Black Anvil Offer Priceless Tips To Broke Bands
• Muse, Sigh, Becoming the Archetype: Best New Releases

JoJo Siwa – Message to the World (Little Drummer Girl) single

South Arcade – Play! EP (BKM/LAB/Atlantic)

Struck a Nerve – s/t (Listenable)
• Struck a Nerve: A Rad Metal Band Born Out of Frustration With Music Industry Bullshit

Jimi Tenor – Selenites, Selenites! (Bureau B)

Tony DV – I Know Trash People Who Keep the Oceans Clean

Treaty Oak Revival – West Texas Degenerate

VA – Best of Nine Inch Nails Redux (feat. Marissa Nadler, Thou, The Ocean); and The Downward Spiral Redux (feat. Between the Buried and Me, Black Tusk, Dreadnought) (Magnetic Eye)
• New Releases Nov. 28 (Record Release Day): Nine Inch Nails Tributes, Struck a Nerve, Feel Worse, 1349, Blut Aus Nord

VA – Stranger Things: Soundtrack From the Netflix Series, Season 5, Volume 1 (Sony Legacy)

Vast Pyre – II Bleak (Octopus Rising)

Warfield (feat. She Wants Revenge‘s Justin Warfield) – Deathrock Devotionals (Black Heathers/ Cleopatra)

11.29.25

Decrypter – Nechronicles

OdNu, Mi Cosa de Resistance and mRn – Southern Lands (Audiobulb)

12.1.25

Falling You – Metanoia (self-release)

Hexjakt – Blessing of the Damned (Majestic Mountain/ Burning Skull)

Sara Noelle – Christmas 2025 single (self-release)

Silk Daisys – It’s Just Like Xmas single (self-release)

Singer. Mattress. Cat. – Subtropical Personality

Sofia Talvik – Wrapped in Paper (A Christmas Album) (Makaki/Orchard)

12.2.25

Fashion Brigade (feat. Lee Scratch Perry, Shamir, the Range) – Annie, I Wish You’d Quit Drinking EP (Choirboy/Choirgirl)

12.3.25

Lil Baby – Leaks (Quality Control Music/ Motown)

Ski Team – Santa single

VA – Oh. What. Fun. OST (feat. Weyes Blood, St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, Jeff Tweedy) (Sony Music Masterworks)

12.4.25

Bhavi – No Te Enamores de Un Artista (Independent Co.)

Sadness – Shimmer EP
• The Visionaries: Sadness Finds His ‘Purpose’ in Music, Readies for Breakout Year in 2026

12.5.25

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ Live God (Bad Seed/ [PIAS])

Bila – Beżżalart (Go Down)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Live God (Bad Seed/ [PIAS])
• 2024 in Review: The Year of Global Grief, and Why We All Needed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ ‘Wild God’ to Cope With It
• Nick Cave’s Out-of-This-World Rejected ‘Gladiator’ Sequel Script
• Nick Cave Really Likes Tomato Omelets
• Nick Cave: Saint Nicholas And The Nocturnal Muse
• Nick Cave Transcript, 1.28.03

Crumb – Live! (Crumb)

Death Obvious – s/t (Transcending Obscurity)
• free download

Depeche Mode – Memento Mori: Mexico City

Alabaster DePlume – To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 (IA11 Edition) (International Anthem)

DIIV – Boiled Alive OST (Fantasy)

Annie DiRusso – Super Pedestrian (Deluxe)

Discovery Through Torment – Telesynthetic Rebirth EP (self-release)

Dove Ellis – Blizzard (Black Butter/ AMF)

Enthroned – Ashspawn (Season of Mist)

Alex Henry Foster – City on Fire single (digital edition) (Hopeful Tragedy)

Ghoulhouse – Realm of Ghouls (Horror Pain Gore Death)
• Exclusive Song Premiere: Ghoulhouse’s ‘Rotten Rancid Remains’

Gunshy (Matt Arbogast) – Hurricane Umbrellas (Sleep) 
• On Tyranny: Gunshy’s Matt Arbogast Shares No Kings 2 Dispatch From Protest’s Chicago Hotbed

HAYWARDxDÄLEK – s/t (Relapse)

Indigosaur – Cosmic Censor (Electric Valley)

Jane Remover – ♡ EP (Dear Air)

Karri – Slider II EP (PFL)

Kakihara – Love Songs Part II (Ripcord)

Kronos Quartet – Forgive Us For (Phenotypic)

Libbianski – EP1 EP (Over the Hill)

Lonely Club (Alan Walker and Steve Aoki) – Quantum Beats

Long Distance Calling – Live at Lichtburg (earMUSIC)

Malemort and Cerbère – Aimless/Glace Mère split album (vinyl and digital editions)

MC50 – 10 More (EarMusic)

Makaya McCraven – Universal Beings (IA11 Edition) (International Anthem)

Melody’s Echo Chamber – Unclouded (Domino)

Nick & June – New Year’s Face (feat. members of the National, Antlers)

Peals (Future Islands’ William Cashion and Double Dagger’s Bruce Willen) – Seltzer reissue (digital edition) (Thrill Jockey)

Sainte Obyana du Froid – Purest Ending (Transcendance)

Scotia Rose – Good Times EP (Deko/ADA/Warner)

Shallipopi – Auracle (Columbia)

Sire Languish – Pull to God EP (Spring Effete)

Sodality – Benediction, Part 2 (NoEvDia)

St. Lucia – Fata Morgana: Dusk (Nettwerk)

Swansea Sound – All Is Calm EP (Skep Wax)

Tesseract – Radar OST (K Scope)

Tutafarel – Monte Casanova

VA – It’s a Wicked Cool Christmas! (feat. Dollyrots, Chesterfield Kings) (Wicked Cool)

VA – Motion II (feat. Gerald Clayton, Kendrick Scott) (Blue Note)

Vrîmuot – Lupus Viridis (Prophecy Productions)

Witness Wounds – s/t (Arsenic Solaris)

Wooden Tape – Wool (God Unknown)

12.6.25

Greve – Bleknat Bortom Evig Tid (Purity Through Fire)

12.8.25

Alina – Catching Lightning EP (Columbia)

Allday Project – s/t EP (The Black Label)

EFF – Zero (Independent)

12.9.25

Detroit Illharmonic Symphony (feat. members of Circle Jerks, Black Flag) – Everything Is Shattered (Geza X)

Joy Buzzer – If You Can Forgive Me single (Wicked Cool)

Lowsunday – Low Sunday Ghost Machine (White EP) (Projekt)

Modern Nature – Shasta single (Bella Union)

Pup – Megacity Madness (The Official Live Recordings) (Little Dipper/ Rise)

Ruthven – Precognition EP (Paul Institute/ XL)

12.10.25

Afghan Whigs – Face Like and Downtown singles (Royal Cream/ BMG)

Aidan Baker, Tim Wyskida, Daron Beck – Trzecia (Drugi) limited-edition cassette (Cruel Nature)

Beauty in Chaos – God’s Gonna Cut You Down/ Get Down Moses (33.3)

Fat Belly – Stories in Stereo

Hiraki – Thee Ode single (Pelagic)

Libbianski – EP1 (Over the Hill)

Light Within – Dying Clock single (feat. Failure’s Kelli Scott)

Lilas (Yoasobi’s Ikura) – Laugh

J Mascis – Say It On digital edition (Sub Pop)
•  Lou Barlow Opens Up About Opening For Dinosaur Jr.

Archy Marshall – New Place 2 Drown 10th Anniversary digital edition (XL)

Ora the Molecule – Dance Therapy (Deluxe Version) (Mute)

Port Noir – Complicated single (InsideOutMusic)

Quinquis (a.k.a. éMilie Quinquis) – Eor Remixes EP (Mute)

Anna Tivel – Swan Song single (Fluff & Gravy)

Unverkalt – Die Auslöschung (Season of Mist)

12.11.25

AA Williams – Just a Shadow single (Reigning Phoenix)

Joybomb – Everything Is Drugs single (Death to Slow)

Plato III – I Want (Money) remix (feat. McKinley Dixon & Kyle Bethel) (Polyvinyl)

Rotten Sound – Mass Extinction EP (Season of Mist)
• On Tyranny: Finland’s Rotten Sound Don’t Fear Crackdown on Dissent Because ‘We Live in a Democratic Country’

Temple of Dread – Verminous Sodomy/ Persecution Mania single (Testimony)

12.12.25

Abscess – Dawn of Inhumanity 15th anniversary red vinyl edition (Peaceville)

Arlie – Someone You Can Believe In (SoundOn)

As We Speak – Worriers & Warriors single (self-release)

Azketem – Amid (Darkness Shall Rise)

Begging Dog – Demo 1 vinyl reissue (Dais)

Andy Bell (of Erasure) – Crown Jewels four-CD box set limited to 4,000 copies (Crown)

Bygone – s/t (Svart)

Caitlin & Brent – s/t (Rodeo Corp. Ltd.)

Ken Carson – Acronym single (feat. Destroy Lonely)

Oliver Coates – Pillion OST digital edition (A24)

Danz CM & CAM Sugar – Synth Utopia Vol II (Synth History)

Dark Sky Burial (Napalm Death’s Shane Embury with Current 93’s Carl Stokes) – The Sacred Neurotic (Consouling Sounds)
• Favorite Films: Napalm Death’s Shane Embury Picks ‘2001,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘Forbidden Planet’
• Napalm Death Bassist Shane Embury Lovingly Reminisces About At the Gates’ Tomas Lindberg

Die Krupps – Will nicht – MUSS! / On Collision Course EP (vinyl edition) (features remixes by members of Ministry) (SPKR)

Dratna – Samhain Dawn at the Gates of Mag Mell
• free on Bandcamp

Dynatron – Aeternus (2025 Remaster)
• free on Bandcamp

Fat White Family – Konk If You’re Lonely: Fat White Family Live at Konk Studios (Domino)

Feral – s/t (Wap Shoo Wap)

Flo – Recently Deleted single (Republic)

Alex Henry Foster – City on Fire single (vinyl edition) (Hopeful Tragedy)
• Cost-Cutting Hacks for Broke Bands Pt. 4: Poison Arrows, Common Wounds, Alex Henry Foster, Bite The Hand

FuckFuckFuck – Fun (Wap Shoo Wap)

Fucked Up – Grass Can Move Stones: Year of the Goat (physical release) (Tankcrimes)
• Fucked Up’s ‘Another Day’: Two Cent Review
• ‘Chemistry of Common Life: Revisionist History’: Two Cent Review

Fuzz – Fourth Dream (In the Red)
• New Releases Dec. 12: Fucked Up, Fuzz, Hum, Phantom Corporation, Juliana Hatfield

Ganavya & Sam Amidon – Would Be Better and Willow Street (feat. Sam Gendel) digital singles

Girl Tones – Leave the City single (Parallel Vision x Big Loud Rock)

Gold Needles – Mood Elevator (Big Stir)

Golden Vultures – Black & Blue single

Adam Green – Gemstones 20th anniversary reissue (Rough Trade)

Half Dizzy – Yard Sale (produced by the Bouncing Souls’ Pete Steinkopf) (Punkerton)

Juliana Hatfield – Lightning Might Strike (American Laundromat)
• New Releases Dec. 12: Fucked Up, Fuzz, Hum, Phantom Corporation, Juliana Hatfield

Hierophany – Tenebrario (Serpent Sun)

Homeshake – s/t (Dine Alone)

Hum – Three (Tonzonen/Cargo)
• New Releases Dec. 12: Fucked Up, Fuzz, Hum, Phantom Corporation, Juliana Hatfield

Jordan Maye – Puppeteer single (feat. Rebecca Soul)

Kaosophia – Beyond the Black Horizon (Serpent Sun)

Kramer – … And the Crimson Moon Whispers Goodbye (Shimmy-Disc)

Mama Doom – Morning Son single (Argonauta)

Mandy, Indiana – URGH (Sacred Bones)

Myles Morgan – Thought You Were Leaving single

Nattradio – Longest Night (Darkness Shall Rise) 

Lukas Nelson – American Romance Too (Sony Music Nashville)

Chris Patrick – Pray 4 Me EP (Def Jam)

Peter Perrett – Proud to Be Self-Hating (Irony and Provocation) single (Domino)

Phantom Corporation (feat.ex-members of Dew-Scented, Obscenity) – Time and Tide (Supreme Chaos)
• New Releases Dec. 12: Fucked Up, Fuzz, Hum, Phantom Corporation, Juliana Hatfield

Pineapple Thief – Retracing Our Steps (Kscope)

Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary box set (Sony)

Rico Nasty – Lethal-er deluxe edition (Fueled by Ramen)

Rotten Sound – Mass Extinction EP (Season of Mist)
• On Tyranny: Finland’s Rotten Sound Don’t Fear Crackdown on Dissent Because ‘We Live in a Democratic Country’

Runarounds – Chasing the Good Times single (AWAL)

Sacred Leather – Keep the Fire Burning (King Volume/ Wise Blood)

Pebe Sebert – s/t (vinyl and digital editions) (Kesha)

Second Harbour – Coalesce EP (SharpTone)

Stay the Course – Red Flag (Punkerton)

Sabrina Sterling – Jukebox (Columbia)

Sun of the Suns – Entanglement (Scarlet)

This Is Lorelei – Holo Boy (Double Double Whammy)

Tomás Tomás – Sweet Sleep EP

Unreqvited – Mosaic I limited-edition 12-vinyl reissue

Volumes – Mirror Touch (digital edition) (Fearless)

VRSTY – Cloud City (Archives) EP (Spinefarm)

Vulture Feather – Craving and Aversion EP (Felte)

Eric Wagner – Eulogy 7-inch (Ripple)
• Eric Wagner Lives On Via New Legions Of Doom LP

Windswept (feat. Drudkh’s Roman Sayenko) – Devil’s Vertep (Season of Mist Underground Activists)

Your Smith – Mr. Revival single (feat. Michael McDonald) (Nettwerk)

12.13.25

Michael Hampton (of Parliament Funkadelic) – Into the Public Domain EP (Sound Mind)

12.15.25

Black Pig Meat – Symbiotic Dream (Raging Planet)

Morte France – Hesperia (Antiq)

12.17.25

Big Harp – Boys Don’t Cry single (Cure cover) (self-release)

Langhone Slim – reimagined Rock N Roll single with Lockeland Stringssingle (Dualtone)

The Lemon Twigs (feat. Tchotchke) – Tchotchkes (Christmas single) (self-release)
• Lemon Twigs Profile, Reviews of High Vis and Trauma Kit LPs in New ‘Big Takeover’ Issue

12.18.25

Aether – Verfallsschemen (Amor Fati)

Hexagraf – Walsen van hoop (Void Wanderer)

Theo Bleak – Bargaining