Last year we launched our Albums of the Month series, where we highlight the best albums released in the previous month. Now here is a roundup of May 2026’s best albums. We have included Bandcamp or ...

For just over 20 years, Canadian indie outfit Metric have felt like both a comfort band and so much more than that. The brainchild of singer/songwriter Emily Haines and guitarist Jimmy Shaw, the ...

Last year we launched our Albums of the Month series, where we highlight the best albums released in the previous month. Now here is a roundup of April 2026’s best albums. We have included Bandcamp or ...

Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2026. This week Andy Von Pip and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide the list. We considered over 50 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 10. Check out our Top ...

For more than 35 years, Alison Krauss & Union Station have been a bluegrass institution, perfecting the classic American form led by Krauss’ distinctive gentle soprano. The band have over the years ...

Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has announced a new solo album, Blue Morpho, and shared its first single, its title track, via a music video. Blue Morpho is due out May 22 via Transgressive. Below, ...

Thirty years after Boys for Pele, Tori Amos returns with her most ambitious work yet—a narrative album featuring Celtic gods, lizard demons, and a very real constitutional crisis. Under the Radar ...

Pop megastar Olivia Rodrigo has released her third album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, today via Geffen. It includes “what’s wrong with me,” a new duet with The Cure’s Robert Smith.

Perhaps not as immediately fresh and groovy as the breakthrough commercial successes of Good News For People Who Love Bad News or We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, Modest Mouse’s latest effort, ...

New Zealand singer/songwriter Aldous Harding is releasing a new album, Train on the Island, this Friday via 4AD. Now she has shared its third and final pre-release single, “Coats.” Listen below.

Scottish duo Arab Strap (Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton) have announced a new album, Half-Told Tales, and shared its first single, “You You You,” which tackles aging, among other things, with ...

The Mountain Goats are releasing a new album, Days, on August 7 on the band’s own Cadmean Dawn Records via Thirty Tigers. Now ...