Happy Music Day! This week is a HUGE one. News of David Grohl’s lovechild, Linkin Park’s lead singer conspiracies and tragedy, as Chester’s son completely hating them replacing his dad – it’s been quite a week for music. We also lost an icon RIP James Earl Jones.

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 almost end of a fun, sweaty, exhausting, and amazing 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, cro ssing 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 SEPTEMBER 13th, 2024

Friday, September 13

• 156/Silence — People Watching (SharpTone)
• Albin Lee Meldau —  Discomforts  (Glassnote)
• Allegra Krieger — Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine
• Allysha Joy —  The Making of Silk  (First Word Records)
• Amy Grant and Vince Gill —  When I Think of Christmas  (UMG)(MCA Nashville)
• Angie McMahon —  Light Sides EP  (AWAL)
• Babyface Ray — The King That Did

• The Bar Stool Preachers — Below The Static EP (Pure Noise)
• Beau — Girl Cried Wolf
• Ben Goldsmith —  The Start of Something Beautiful  (Sony Music)
• Big Bend — Last Circle in a Slowdown
• Big Big Train — A Flare On The Lens (InsideOut)
• Bill Leeb (of Front Line Assembly) — Model Kollapse
• Billy Ocean — Suddenly (Vinyl Reissue)
• Black Sabbath — The End (4K UHD reissue)
• Bon Jovi — Greatest Hits (2LP vinyl reissue)
• Bones UK —  SOFT  (Sumerian Records)
• Brantley Gilbert — Tattoos (Valory Music)

• The California Honeydrops — Dig
• Cassadee Pope — Hereditary (Deluxe Edition)
• Chance Peña —  Ever-Shifting, Continual Blossoming  (Chance Peña)
• Chastity — Chastity (Deathwish)
• Chewing (Nik Ewing of Local Natives) — Songs For Linnéa
• Chilly Gonzales —  GONZO  (Gentle Threat)
• The Church Will Sing — Rest On Us (Single) – Curb|Word
• Clark — In Camera
• COIN —  I’m Not Afraid of Music Anymore  (10K Projects)
• Colin Stetson —  The love it took to leave you  (Colin Stetson)
• Crobot —  Obsidian  (Crobot)(Megaforce)
• Cursive —  Devourer  (Run For Cover Records)

• Dale Crover — Glossolalia (Joyful Noise)
• The Damned – AD 2022 — Live In Manchester (earMusic)
• Dayglow — Dayglow
• DEADLETTER — Hysterical Strength
• Divine Sweater —  A Time For Everything  (Better Company Records)
• Dale Crover (of Melvins) — Glossolaliao
• The Damned — AD 2022 – Live in Manchester
• Dark Brown — American Instrument
• Diamanda Galás — Saint of the Pit (Reissue)
• Diana Ross and The Supremes — Love Child (Vinyl Reissue)
• Divine Sweater — A Time For Everything
• Dora Jar — No Way to Relax When You’re on Fire
• Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors —  Strangers No More Volume Two

• Emily Frembgen —  No Had Feelings  (Don Giovanni Records)
• Empress Of — For Your Consideration (Deluxe Part 1)
• Eric Clapton, Slowhand at 70: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (4K UHD reissue) — Unplugged (purple vinyl reissue)
• Everclear — Songs From An American Movie Vol. One: Learning How To Smile (Vinyl Reissue)
• Fentanyl — Fentanyl
• FKA twigs — EUSEXUA
• Floating Points —  Cascade  (Ninja Tune)
• Flotsam And Jetsam — I Am The Weapon (AFM)
• Foreign Fields — What It Costs
• Fousheé —  Pointy Heights  (RCA)
• Foxing —  Foxing  (Grand Paradise/Miscellaneous Recordings)
• Frank Zappa — Apostrophe (50th anniversary super deluxe edition; metallic gold vinyl reissue)
• The Fretless —  Glasswing  (Birthday Cake Records)
• The Funeral Portrait — Greetings From Suffocate City (Better Noise)
• George Brown (of Kool & The Gang) —  Where I’m Coming From  (BFD)
• Gia Ford — Transparent Things
• Ginger Root —  SHINBANGUMI  (Ghostly International)
• Giovannie and The Hired Guns — Land of the Lost
• The Go! Team — Thunder, Lightning, Strike (20th Anniversary Edition)
• Go Ahead And Die — Better Dead Than Mainstream: Live At The Marquee Theater (Nuclear Blast)
• Gracie Binion — Second Installment EP – The Fuel Music
• The Gray Havens — The Magic (Single) – Blue Flower
• Grover Washington — Grover Live 2
• Gurriers —  Come And See  (No Filter)
• GWAR — Hell-O! (36th Anniversary Edition) (Pit)
• Hardcastle — Circuit EP
• Hataałii — Waiting For a Sign
• Hayden James —  We Could Be Love  (Future Classic)
• Hello Mary —  Emita Ox  (Frenchkiss Records)
• Horna – Nyx — Hymnejä Yölle (W.T.C.)
• Hot Moms Club — Happy You’re Here EP
• Hugo Largo — Huge, Large and Electric: Hugo Largo 1984-1991
• Hulvey —  CRY  (Reach Records)
• HYDE — HYDE [INSIDE] (Reach Records)
• ionnalee — BLUND – 2/11
• ionnalee —  close your eyes  (to whom it may concern)
• INJI — WE GOOD EP
• The Jesus Lizard —  Rack  (Ipecac Recordings)

Primal musical therapy at its best, The Jesus Lizard arise after 26 years to once again save your sanity, one musical movement at a time with their new album RACK.

Today via  Ipecac Recordings
Read full review on album by @andy-frisk

• Jade Hairpins —  Get Me the Good Stuff  (Merge Records)
• Jimi Hendrix Experience — Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision (3CD/5LP/Blu-ray box)
• JOBA — Russell Boring
• Joey Valence & Brae — NO HANDS (Deluxe Edition)
• John Early —  Now More Than Ever  (Thirty Tigers)
• John Chisum — OMG (Oh My God) (Single) – NRT Music
• Jordan Sparks — No Restrictions
• julie —  my anti-aircraft friend  (Atlantic)
• Julie Dawson — Bottom Of The Pool
• Kaito — Collection
• Kal Marks —  Wasteland Baby  (Exploding In Sound Records)
• keshi —  Requiem  (Island)
• Key Glock — Glockaveli
• A Killer’s Confession — Victim 1 (MNRK Heavy)
• Lady Blackbird —  Slang Spirituals  (BMG)
• Laura Hackett Park — Til The Morning EP – Integrated Music
• Legions of Doom —  The Skull 3  (Tee Pee Records)
• Lerryn — As A Mother EP
• Lily Kershaw —  Pain & More  (Nettwerk)
• Lil Surf — Rockstar Status
• Local H — Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles? (20th Anniversary Reissue)
• London Grammar —  The Greatest Love  (Sony Music)
• Louis Armstrong — Wonderful World: The Best of Louis Armstrong
• Loveless — Loveless II
• LSDXOXO — DOGMA
• Lunar Vacation —  Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire  (Keeled Scales)
• MC Lyte — 1:1
• M. Ward —  For Beginners: The Best of M. Ward  (Merge Records)
• Maddie & Tae —  What A Woman Can Do EP  (UMG) (Mercury Nashville)
• Make Friends —  Loaded Fun EP  (Ignition Records)
• Marcin – Dragon in Harmony
• Mark Lowry — There Is Hope – Gaither Music
• Marvin Gaye — In The Groove (Vinyl Reissue)
• Matilda Lyn —  Sunwarmed EP  (Giant Music)
• Max Jaffe —  Reduction of Man  (Whited Sepulchre Records)
• Miranda Lambert —  Postcards from Texas  (Vanner Records)

• My Brightest Diamond —  Fight the Real Terror  (Western Vinyl)
• The Mystery Lights —  Purgatory  (Wick Records)
• Nada Surf —  Moon Mirror  (New West Records)
• Nemahsis — Verbathim
• Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets —  Indoor Safari  (Yep Roc Records)
• Nicki Minaj — Pink Friday 2: Gag City Reloaded
• Nilüfer Yanya —  My Method Actor  (Ninja Tune)
• Niki Lou Savich — Home (Single) – NRT Music
• The Notorious B.I.G. — Ready To Die (30th Anniversary)
• Oceans Of Slumber — Where Gods Fear To Speak (Season Of Mist)
• Old City — Old City
• Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo — Crimes of Passion (Vinyl Reissue)
• Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo — In the Heat of the Night (Vinyl Reissue)
• Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo — Precious Time (Vinyl Reissue)
• Patrick Hardy — tiny
• Porches —  SHIRT  (Domino)

• Princess Goes (feat. Michael C. Hall) — Come Of Age (Deluxe Version)
• Quarterly — Adonis
• Randy Newman — Pleasantville: Original Motion Picture Score (deluxe edition 2LP red, white and blue vinyl reissue)
• RGB — A Place For Lovers
• Robyn Hitchcock — 1967: Vacations In The Past
• Robert DeLong —  PLAYLIST of DOOM  (Round Hill Records)
• Rockabye Baby! — Lullaby Renditions of Taylor Swift Volume 2 (Digital Release)
• Sam Palladio — The Perfect Summer’s Day, Before We Lost The Light
• Sarah Davachi —  The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir  (Late Music)
• Satan — Songs In Crimson (Metal Blade)
• Sidewalk Prophets feat. Ben Fuller — Unbelievable (Single) – Curb|Word
• Silas Nello — From West Hollywood
• Silent Theory —  Tell Us How It Ends  (Silent Generation)
• Slomosa — Tundra Rock (MNRK Heavy)
• Snow Patrol —  The Forest Is the Path  (Universal)(Polydor Records)
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids —  Red Future  (Savage Mob Records)
• Sophia Stel — Object Permanence EP
• Soul Survivors — The Road Ahead
• Spirit Mother —  Trails  (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Stryper — When We Were Kings (Frontiers Music)

• Suki Waterhouse —  Memoir of a Sparklemuffin  (Sub Pop)
• Surf Trash —  The Only Place I Know  (Surf Trash)
• Susan O’Neill — Now In a Minute
• Sydney Sprague — somebody in hell still loves you (deluxe version)
• Talib Kweli & DJ Rawls — The Confidence Of Knowing
• The Temptations — Meet The Temptations (Vinyl Reissue)
• Texas Hill —  Soldiers  (queue records)
• Thomas Day — Angel Boy – EP
• Tindersticks —  Soft Tissue  (Lucky Dog/City Slang)
• Tom Meighan —  Roadrunner  (Blue Rocket Records)
• Tony Levin —  Bringing It Down to the Bass  (Flatiron Recordings)
• Trelldom — …By The Shadows… (Prophecy)
• Trentemøller —  Dreamweaver  (In My Room)
• The War on Drugs — Live Drugs Again
• TR/ST —  Performance  (Dais Records)
• Unspoken — IV – Centricity Music
• Vanessa Collier — Do It My Own Way
• Van Morrison — New Arrangements and Duets
• Velvet Revolver — Contraband (deluxe edition 2LP vinyl reissue)
• Victory — Circle of Life (AFM)
• Wendy Eisenberg —  Viewfinder  (American Dreams Records)
• Will Carlisle — Acoustic EP – Centricity Music
• Willie Watson (of Old Crow Medicine Show) — Willie Watson

• Winterfylleth —The Imperious Horizon (Candlelight)
• Wolfbrigade — Life Knife Death (Metal Blade)
• Yolanda Adams — Sunny Days
• Yon Loader —  Yon Loader  (Tiny Engines)
• Zetra — Zetra (Nuclear Blast)

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 SHOWSare our jam.

Check out our latest TIKTOK posts to see a recap of this week’s staff picks.