Give yourself a pat on the back: you made it to another year! We all have plenty of tasks on our to-do lists each day, and it can be hard to find time to set aside solely for discovering new music. That’s where we come in.
We’ve assembled a comprehensive, genre-spanning list of 2026 albums, EPs, and other musical projects coming this year that need to be on your radar. Keep reading to see our week-by-week breakdown of releases, updated daily, and check back often so you don’t miss out on the year’s best new music.
January 9
Alter Bridge, Alter Bridge
Blue, Reflections
Dry Cleaning, Secret Love
Jenny on Holiday, Quicksand Heart
Mon Rovîa, Bloodline
The Cribs, Selling a Vibe
The Protomen, Act III: This City Made Us
Will Epstein, Yeah, Mostly
Zach Bryan, With Heaven on Top
Zu, Ferrum Sidereum
January 15
Robbie Williams, Britpop
Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel, Celestun
January 16
Cavetown, Running With Scissors
Courtney Marie Andrews, Valentine
DZ Deathrays, Easing Out of Control
Elles Bailey, Can’t Take My Story Away
Imarhan, Essam
Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore, Tragic Magic
Kreator, Krushers of the World
Langhorne Slim, The Dreamin’ Kind
Lasse Lokøy, The More You Know
Madison Beer, Locket
Marinas Rest, The Bereaved
Nat & Alex Wolff, Nat & Alex Wolff
Peaer, Doppelgänger
Richard Marx, After Hours
Sassy 009, Dreamer+
Sleaford Mods, The Demise of Planet X
SOEN, Reliance
The James Hunter Six, Off the Fence
Westside Cowboy, So Much Country ‘Till We Get There EP
Wormy, Shark River
Ya Tseen, Stand on My Shoulders
January 23
Ari Lennox, Vacancy
Cam Kahin, CHUG
Cat Power, Redux EP
Chris Garneau, In Reverse
Crystal Lake, The Weight of Sound
Dead Dads Club, Dead Dads Club
Jamie O’Neal, Gypsum
Julian Lage, Scenes from Above
Louis Tomlinson, How Did I Get Here?
Lucinda Williams, World’s Gone Wrong
Marc Broussard, S.O.S. V: Songs of the ’50s
Megadeth, Megadeth
Mika, Hyperlove
Poppy, Empty Hands
Reba McEntire, Starting Over (30th Anniversary Edition)
Sammy Brue, The Journals
Searows, Death in the Business of Whaling
Ski Team, Burnout/Boys
The Damned, Not Like Everybody Else
The Format, Boycott Heaven
The Paper Kites, If You Go There, I Hope You Find It
Tom Hamilton, I’m Your Vampire
Victoryland, My Heart Is A Room With No Cameras In It
January 29
My Morning Jacket, Peacelands
January 30
A.G. Cook, The Moment (The Score)
Ailbhe Reddy, KISS BIG
Butch Walker Jr., Paleo Sol
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Howl (20th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set)
Bre Kennedy, The Alchemist
Buzzcocks, Attitude Adjustment
Cast, Yeah Yeah Yeah
Cordovas, Back to Life
Demob Happy, The Grown Ups Are Talking
Emily Scott Robinson, Appalachia
Geologist, Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?
GUV, Warmer Than Gold
James Adrian Brown, Forever Neon Lights
Jordan Ward, Backward
JOSEPH, Closer to Happy
Joyce Manor, I Used to Go to This Bar
Kula Shaker, Wormslayer
Lande Hekt, Lucky Now
LIGHTS, A6EXTENDED
Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon, As of Now
Marta Del Grandi, Dream Life
Meels, Across The Raccoon Strait
Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965
MØL, DREAMCRUSH
Softcult, When a Flower Doesn”t Grow
Sébastien Tellier, Kiss The Beast
The Soft Pink Truth, Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?
Tinsley Ellis, Labor of Love
Tyler Ballgame, For the First Time, Again
Whitelands, Sunlight Echoes
Ye Vagabonds, All Tied Together
Ys Tseen, Stand On My Shoulders
Yumi Zouma, No Love Lost to Kindness
February 6
About You, The Lighthouse, The Storm
Bat for Lashes, Fur and Gold (20th Anniversary Edition)
Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laughter in Summer
Charlotte Day Watson, Patchwork
Dave Matthews Band, Take Me Back Live From The Gorge
Ella Mai, Do You Still Love Me?
IST IST, DAGGER
Jay Buchanan, Weapons of Beauty
John Craigie, I Swam Here
Karnivool, In Verses
Mandy, Indiana, Urgh
Nick Jonas, Sunday Best
Puma Blue, Croak Dream
Puscifer, Normal Isn’t
Ratboys,Singin’ to an Empty Chair
Rissi Palmer, Perspectives EP
Robbie Williams, BRITPOP
Silversun Pickups, Tenterhooks
Sydney Ross Mitchell, Cynthia EP
Theo Lawrence & Melisa Carper, Havin’ a Talk
Ulrika Spacek, EXPO
February 13
Angel Du$t, Cold 2 the Touch
Ásgeir, Julia
August Ponthier, Everywhere Isn’t Texas
Boy Golden, Best of Our Possible Lives
Brent Faiyaz, Icon
Brothers Osborne, Pawn Shop (10th Anniversary Edition)
Cardinals, Masquerade
Caroline Jones, Good Owen
Charli XCX, Wuthering Heights
Chet Faker, A Love For Strangers
congratulations, Join Hands
Danny L Harle, Cerulean
Felsmann + Tiley, Protomensch
Gogol Bordello, We Mean It, Man!
hemlocke springs, the apple tree under the sea
Howling Bells, Strange Life
Jeremy Ivey, Its Shape Will Reveal Itself
Jill Scott, To Whom This May Concern
Lauren Spencer Smith, The Art of Being a Mess Deluxe
Mariachi El Bronx, Mariachi El Bronx IV
Paul Anka, Inspirations of Life and Love
PONY, Clearly Cursed
Remember Sports, The Refrigerator
Story of the Year, A.R.S.O.N.
The Infamous Stringdusters, 20/20
The Lone Bellow, What a Time to Be Alive
The Nude Party, Look Who’s Back
The Paranoid Style, Known Associates
The Sky Chiefs, The Sky Chiefs
Tiana Major9, November Scorpio
Yonaka, Hope You’re Satisfied
February 20
Bella Lista, Drasticism
Hilary Duff, Luck…or Something
Leigh-Anne, My Ego Told Me To
Liz Cooper, New Day
Megan Moroney, Cloud 9
Moby, Future Quiet
Mumford & Sons, Prizefighter
New Found Glory, LISTEN UP!
Peaches, No Lube So Rude
Phew and Danielle de Picciotto, Paper Masks
Sports, Sports
Sydney Quiseng, That’s My Baby! EP
The Band of Heathens, Country Sides
The Enemy, Social Disguises
Tim Easton, fIREHORSE
February 27
Andrew Bird, The Mysterious Production of Eggs (20th Anniversary Box Set)
Bill Callahan, My Days of 58
Bill Frisell, In My Dreams
BLACKPINK, DEADLINE
Bruno Mars, The Romantic
Buck Meek, The Mirror
Chuck Corea, Forever Yours: The Farewell Performance
Common Holly, They will draw halos around our heads EP
cootie catcher, Something We All Got
Geese, Live at Third Man Records
Gorillaz, The Mountain
Inner Wave, SEE YOU WHEN I GET BACK
Iron & Wine, Hen’s Teeth
Jeremy Fetzer, An Evening at the Fetzicon Lounge
Jupe Jupe, King of Sorrows
KABEAUSHÉ, KABEAUSHÉ PRESENTS: I.S.U.I.L.P
Kishi Bashi, Sonderlust (10th Anniversary Edition)
Lucy Kitchen, In the Low Light
Magoo, What a Life
Maria BC, Marathon
Mitski, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me
Pert Near Sandstone, Side by Side
Ritt Momney, BASE
Rob Zombie, The Great Satan
Telenova, The Warning
Voxtrot, Dreamers in Exile
March 6
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, We Are Together Again
Brit Taylor, Land of the Forgotten
Charlie Puth, Whatever’s Clever!
Charlotte Sands, Satellite
Dutch Interior, It’s Glass EP
Endearments, An Always Open Door
Harry Styles, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally
Hunter Hayes, Evergreen
MORGXN, HEARTLAND Deluxe
Morrissey, Make-Up Is a Lie
Scout Gillett, Tough Touch
Sons of Town Hall, Of Ghosts and Gods
Squeeze, Trixies
The Brook & The Bluff, Werewolf
March 13
Brigitte Calls Me Baby, Irreversible
Cashier, The Weight EP
Cat Clyde, Mud Blood Bone
Cut Worms, Transmitter
Foy Vance, The Wake
James Blake, Trying Times
Kim Gordon, Play Me
Morgan Nagler, I’ve Got Nothing to Lose, and I’m Losing It
Ora Cogan, Hard Hearted Woman
Sweet Petunia, Foggy Mountain Mental Breakdown
Sweet Pill, Still There’s a Glow
The Black Crowes, A Pound of Feathers
The Fray, A Light That Waits
The Orielles, Only You Left
The Sophs, GOLDSTAR
March 20
Aubrie Sellers, Attachment Theory
Band of Horses, Everything All The Tiem (20th Anniversary Edition)
BTS, Arirang
Cat Clyde, Mud Blood Bone
GAEREA, Loss
Girl Scout, Brink
Gorillaz, The Mountain
Haircut 100, Boxing the Compass
Ladytron, Paradises
Leah Blevins, All Dressed Up
Luke Combs, The Way I Am
Morgan Evans, Steel Town
Peach PRC, Porcelain
Ringing, Another Cycle in the Cosmic Wash
Son Little, CITYFOLK
Tedeschi Trucks Band, Future Soul
The Dandy Warhols, Pin Ups
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart, BODY SOUND
March 27
Cannons, Everything Glows
Charlotte Cornfield, Hurts Like Hell
Courtney Barnett, Creature of Habit
Dermot Kennedy, The Weight of the World
Fcukers, Ö
Holy Fuck, Event Beat
José González, Against the Dying of the Light
King Tuff, Moo
Krooked Kings, In Another Life
Melissa Etheridge, Rise
MEMORIALS, All Clouds Bring Not Rain
Paula Kelley, Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out
PET NEEDS, Elbows Out! This Is Capitalism
Raye, This Music May Contain Hope
Robyn, Sexistential
rum.gold, Is There Anybody Home?
Snail Mail, Ricochet
Stuck, Optimizer
The Academy Is…, Almost There
The New Pornographers, The Former Site Of
The Pretty Flowers, Never Felt Bitter
Tigers Jaw, Lost on You
Young Fresh Fellows, Loft
April 3
Arlo Parks, Ambiguous Desire
Grade 2, Talk About It
Hiding Places, The Secret to Good Living
Maria Taylor, Story’s End
Paul Cauthen, Book of Paul
Sofía Rei, Antónima
Sunn O))), Sunn O)))
Thundercat, Distracted
April 10
Ella Langley, Dandelion
Fantastic Cat, Cat Out of Hell
Gracie and Rachel, If We Could, We Would
Holly Humberstone, Cruel World
Jessie Ware, Superbloom
The Maine, Joy Next Door
Tori Amos, In Times of Dragons
April 17
Accessory, Dust
Banshee Tree, Bad Luck
Benjamin Tod, Vengeance and Grace
Eve Maret, Diamond Cutter
Yot Club, Simpleton
April 24
Friko, Something Worth Waiting For
Jesus Christ Taxi Driver, Taxi the Rich
Kneecap, Fenian
Krooked Tongue, Drugstore Cowboy
Meghan Trainor, Toy With Me
Metric, Romanticize the Dive
Miss Grit, Under My Umbrella
Noah Kahan, The Great Divide
The Hip Snacks, Out on a Limb
The Lives Of Famous Men, End Times Elevator Music
The Milk Carton Kids, Lost Cause Lover Fool
The Reds, Pinks & Purples, Acknowledge Kindness
Thin Lear, Many Disappeared
May 1
Melanie C, Sweat
Modern Woman, Johnny’s Dreamworld
Tori Amos, In Times of Dragons
May 8
Broken Social Scene, Remember the Humans
India Ramey, Villan Era
May 22
Steep Canyon Rangers, Next Act
July 3
Low Cut Connie, Livin in the USA
