2026 New Music Releases & Upcoming Albums

New Music Releases & Upcoming Albums in 2026

Atwood Magazine’s staff works together to compile this regularly updated guide to upcoming and new music releases in 2026. Check back here for all the albums, EPs, mixtapes, and projects we’re watching – and covering – throughout the year!
Looking for emerging favorites? Visit our Artists to Watch and Artist Discoveries pages to see whose music has captured our ears and our hearts.
⭐ Staff Pick indicates releases our editors are especially excited about.
Click on the artist’s name to read our interviews and reviews of their music, and stay tuned for more to come as we continue to build up this page!
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January 2026

January 9 Music Releases

  • The Cribs – Selling a Vibe

  • Dry Cleaning – Secret Love

  • Glom – Below ⭐

  • Lasse Lokøy – & The Roommates

  • Mon Rovîa – Bloodline ⭐

  • Queen’s Pleasure – Stunt Double

  • Zach Bryan – With Heaven on Top

“Lay Down My Arms to Bare My Soul”: Mon Rovîa’s ‘Bloodline’ Is a Deeply Human Companion for a World in Need of Love

:: ALBUM REVIEW ::



“You Can’t Learn Heartbreak From a Poem”: Zach Bryan’s ‘With Heaven on Top’ Is a Bruising, Deeply Human Companion to Modern American Life

:: ALBUM REVIEW ::

January 16 Music Releases

  • A$AP Rocky – DON’T BE DUMB

  • Alice Merton – Visions ⭐

  • Amanda Bergman – embraced for a second as we die ⭐

  • Cavetown – Running With Scissors

  • Courtney Marie Andrews – Valentine

  • DaBaby – ‎BE MORE GRATEFUL

  • DZ Deathrays – Easing Out of Control

  • Jade Street – Vancouver EP

  • Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore – Tragic Magic

  • Langhorne Slim – The Dreamin’ Kind

  • Madison Beer – Locket

  • NASTYJOE – The House

  • Nat & Alex Wolff – Nat & Alex Wolff

  • Peaer – doppelgänger

  • Vienna Vienna – Entertain Me EP ⭐

  • Westside Cowboy – So Much Country ‘Till We Get There EP ⭐

  • Wiz Khalifa – Khaotic

  • Wormy – Shark River

  • Ya Tseen – Stand on My Shoulders

January 23 Music Releases

Into Eternity: Searows Talks Abstraction and Artistic Growth on ‘Death in the Business of Whaling’

:: INTERVIEW ::

January 30 Music Releases

  • Adios Cometa – Un destello de luz

  • Ailbhe Reddy – KISS BIG

  • Annabelle Dinda – Some Things Never Leave

  • By Storm – My Ghosts Go Ghost

  • Cast – Yeah Yeah Yeah

  • JOSEPH – Closer to Happy

  • Joyce Manor – I Used to Go to This Bar

  • Malena Zavala – If This Life Could Start Again

  • Radium Dolls – Wound Up

  • Sébastien Tellier – Kiss The Beast

  • The Soft Pink Truth – Can Such Delightful Times Go on Forever?

  • Tyler Ballgame – For the First Time, Again

  • Softcult – When a Flower Doesn’t Grow ⭐

  • Yumi Zouma – No Love Lost to Kindness



February 2026

February 6 Music Releases

  • 2070 – Big Blue

  • Alice Costelloe – Move On With the Year

  • Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Laughter in Summer

  • Charlotte Day Wilson – Patchwork

  • Cory Wong – Lost In The Wonder

  • Ella Mai – Do You Still Love Me?

  • ELLUR – At Home in My Mind ⭐

  • Joji – Piss in the Wind

  • Keni Titus – AngelPink

  • Mandy, Indiana – Urgh

  • Michael Marcagi – Under the Streetlights ⭐

  • MORGXN –  HEARTLAND

  • Nick Jonas – Sunday Best

  • Puma Blue – Croak Dream

  • Ratboys – Singin’ to an Empty Chair ⭐

  • Silversun Pickups – Tenterhooks

  • Sydney Ross Mitchell – Cynthia

February 13 Music Releases

  • Ásgeir – Julia ⭐

  • August Ponthier – Everywhere Isn’t Texas

  • Cardinals – Masquerade

  • Charli XCX – Wuthering Heights

  • Chet Faker – A Love For Strangers

  • Claire Rosinkranz – My Lover

  • congratulations –  Join Hands

  • hemlocke springs – the apple tree under the sea

  • Jill Scott – To Whom This May Concern

  • The Lone Bellow – What a Time to be Alive

  • Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys – Pale Bloom

  • Mumford & Sons – Prizefighter ⭐

  • PONY – Clearly Cursed

  • Remember Sports – The Refrigerator

  • Tiana Major9 – November Scorpio

  • Wrabel – up above

  • Yellow Days – Rock and a Hard Place

February 20 Music Releases

  • Absolutely – Paracosm

  • Altin Gün – Garip

  • CVCHE – Get Fluffy

  • Dominique Fils-Aimé – My World Is The Sun

  • Hilary Duff – luck…or something

  • MX LONELY – ALL MONSTERS

  • New Found Glory – Listen Up!

  • Sports – Sports

  • Worry Club – I’m Freaking Out

February 27 Music Releases

  • Bruno Mars – The Romantic

  • Buck Meek – The Mirror ⭐

  • cootie catcher – Something We All Got

  • Em Beihold – Tales of a Failed Shapeshifter

  • Forager – Even a Child Can Cover the Sun with a Finger ⭐

  • Gorillaz – The Mountain

  • Lala Lala – Heaven 2

  • Liz Cooper – New Day

  • Mitski – Nothing’s About to Happen to Me

  • MORRISSEY – MAKE UP IS A LIE

  • Ritt Momney – BASE ⭐

  • Rosie Carney – Doomsday… Don’t Leave Me Here

  • Sideshow – TIGRAY FUNK

  • Trxy! – Drowning In Bliss

  • Voxtrot – Dreamers in Exile



March 2026

March 6 Music Releases

  • bobbie – Lessons

  • Bory – Never Turns to Night

  • The Brook & The Bluff – Werewolf

  • Charlie Puth — Whatever’s Clever!

  • Endearments – An Always Open Door

  • Harry Styles – KISS ALL THE TIME. DISCO, OCCASIONALLY

  • Hunter Hayes – Evergreen

  • Scout Gillett – Tough Touch

  • Shabaka – Of The Earth

  • Where’s Beth – Ache Is A Cricket In The Night

March 13 Music Releases

  • Anjimile – You’re Free to Go

  • The Black Crowes – A Pound of Feathers

  • Brigitte Calls Me Baby – Irreversible ⭐

  • Cat Clyde – Mud Blood Bone

  • Claire Dickson – Balance

  • Claire Ozmun – Always Living Somewhere

  • Cut Worms – Transmitter

  • The Fray – A Light That Waits

  • James Blake – Trying Times ⭐

  • Morgan Nagler – I’ve Got Nothing to Lose, and I’m Losing It

  • Olive Jones – For Mary

  • Ora Cogan – Hard Hearted Woman

  • Tenderness – True

  • The Orielles – Only You Left

  • The Sophs – GOLDSTAR ⭐

  • Tinariwen – Hoggar

  • untitled freak – 7 circles

March 20 Music Releases

  • Aubrie Sellers – Attachment Theory

  • Avalon Emerson & the Charm – Written into Changes

  • The Clearwater Swimmers – Radio Flyer EP

  • The Dandy Warhols – PIN UPS

  • Footballhead – Weight of the Truth

  • Girl Scout – Brink ⭐

  • Joshua Burnside – It’s Not Going to be Okay

  • Lia Pappas-Kemps – Winged

  • Peach PRC – Porcelain

  • The Undercover Dream Lovers – atomic house

March 27 Music Releases

  • Charlotte Cornfield – Hurts Like Hell

  • Dermot Kennedy – The Weight of the Woods

  • Elmiene – sounds for someone ⭐

  • José González – Against The Dying Of The Light

  • Konradsen – Hunt, Gather ⭐

  • Krooked Kings – In Another Life

  • Lauren Auder – Whole World As Vigil

  • Melanie Martinez – HADES

  • Melissa Etheridge – RISE

  • RAYE – THE MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. ⭐

  • Robyn – Sexistential ⭐

  • rum.gold – Is There Anybody Home?

  • Seafret – Fear of Emotion

  • Snail Mail – Ricochet ⭐

  • Tigers Jaw – Lost on You

  • Tom Misch – Full Circle



April 2026

April 3 Music Releases

  • deary – Birding ⭐

  • Milk Carton Kids – Lost Cause Lover Fool

  • Philine Sonny – Virgin Lake

April 10 Music Releases

  • Brown Horse – Total Dive

  • Gracie and Rachel – If We Could, Would We

  • Holly Humberstone – Cruel World ⭐

  • Jessie Ware – Superbloom

  • Melanie Baker – Somebody Help Me, I’m Being Spontaneous

  • Sarah & Collin – This Time

  • Wesley Joseph – Forever Ends Someday

April 17 Music Releases

  • beaming – horseshoe

  • LØLØ – god forbid a girl spits out her feelings ⭐

  • Yaya Bey – Fidelity

  • Yot Club – Simpleton

  • ZAYN – KONNAKOL

April 24 Music Releases

  • Death Lens – What’s Left Now?

  • Friko – Something Worth Waiting For

  • Gia Margaret – Singing

  • LOLO ZOUAÏ – Reverie

  • Meghan Trainor – Toy With Me

  • METRIC – Romanticize the Dive

  • Mildred – Fenceline

  • Noah Kahan – The Great Divide ⭐

  • Oscar Blue – Birds in Winter

  • Pearla – Song Room

  • White Denim – 13 



May 2026

May 1 Music Releases

  • The Black Keys – Peaches!

  • Melanie C – Sweat

  • Tori Amos – In Times of Dragons

  • Young the Giant – Victory Garden ⭐

May 8 Music Releases

  • Broken Social Scene – Remember The Humans

  • Cola – Cost of Living Adjustment

  • Ray Bull – Please Stop Laughing

May 15 Music Releases

  • Dua Saleh – Of Earth & Wires

  • Maisie Peters – florescence

May 22 Music Releases

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June 2026

June 5 Music Releases

  • Jeff Goldblum – Night Blooms

June 12 Music Releases

June 19 Music Releases

  • Swim Deep – Hum

June 26 Music Releases

June 2026

July 3 Music Releases

  • Low Cut Connie – Livin in the USA