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

  • The Band of Heathens – Country Sides

  • 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

  • GUM – Blue Gum Way

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

  • Hunter Hayes – Evergreen

  • Scout Gillett – Tough Touch

  • The Scythe – Strictly 4 The Scythe

  • Shabaka – Of The Earth

  • Travis Bolt – Burning Bridges

  • 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

  • Jack Harlow – Monica

  • James Blake – Trying Times ⭐

  • Kim Gordon – PLAY ME

  • 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

  • BTS – ARIRANG

  • The Clearwater Swimmers – Radio Flyer EP

  • The Dandy Warhols – PIN UPS

  • Footballhead – Weight of the Truth

  • Girl Scout – Brink ⭐

  • Grace Ives – Girlfriend

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

  • Lia Pappas-Kemps – Winged

  • Peach PRC – Porcelain

  • Son Little – Cityfolk

  • The Undercover Dream Lovers – atomic house

  • Vero – Razor Tongue

March 27 Music Releases

  • The Academy Is… – Almost There

  • 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 – THIS 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

  • Arlo Parks – Ambiguous Desire ⭐

  • deary – Birding ⭐

  • Milk Carton Kids – Lost Cause Lover Fool

  • Philine Sonny – Virgin Lake

  • Sam Barber – Broken View

  • Sophia Yau-Weeks – Misty Mountain

  • Thundercat – Distracted

April 10 Music Releases

  • Brown Horse – Total Dive

  • Cactus Lee – Lee’s Dream 

  • Gracie and Rachel – If We Could, Would We

  • Hannah Lew – Hannah Lew

  • Holly Humberstone – Cruel World ⭐

  • Jessie Ware – Superbloom

  • Light Widening – Apocalypse of the Small Self

  • The Maine – Joy Next Door

  • Marc Valentine – Uncommon Side Effects

  • Mei Semones – Kurage

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

  • Rachel Lime – STORIES

  • Sarah & Collin – This Time

  • Son Mieux – 24 Hours

  • Wesley Joseph – Forever Ends Someday

April 17 Music Releases

  • Anitta – EQUILIBRIVM

  • Arkells – Between Us

  • beaming – horseshoe

  • Eaves Wilder – Little Miss Sunshine

  • Foxtide – Entropy

  • Honey Dijon – The Nightlife

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

  • Lonely Hours – Complicated Boy

  • Matt Corby – Tragic Magic

  • Sean Solomon – The World Is Not Good Enough

  • Yaya Bey – Fidelity

  • Yot Club – Simpleton

  • Vanessa Carlton – VEILS

  • ZAYN – KONNAKOL

April 24 Music Releases

  • Angelo De Augustine – Angel in Plainclothes

  • Beatrix – We Swallowed the Sky

  • berm – highway through the trees

  • BK Pepper – Pagan

  • The Cab – Chasing Crowns

  • Comprador – please stay off my ass

  • Death Lens – What’s Left Now?

  • Eugene McGuinness – Eugene McGuinness Versus the Universe

  • EVOLFO – Of Love

  • Failure – Location Lost

  • Foo Fighters – Your Favorite Toy

  • Friko – Something Worth Waiting For

  • Gareth Donkin – Extraordinary

  • Gia Margaret – Singing

  • Jesus Christ Taxi Driver – Taxi The Rich

  • Justine Eltakchi – Big Dream Baby

  • ladylike – It’s a Pleasure Of Mine, to Know You’re Fine

  • The Leaving – Ultimate Buzz

  • LOLO ZOUAÏ – Reverie

  • Loukeman – Sd-3

  • Meghan Trainor – Toy With Me

  • METRIC – Romanticize the Dive

  • Mildred – Fenceline

  • Miss Grit – Under My Umbrella

  • Noah Kahan – The Great Divide ⭐

  • Oscar Blue – Birds in Winter

  • Pearla – Song Room

  • The Reds, Pinks, & Purples – Acknowledge Kindness

  • Ringo Starr – Long Long Road

  • some fear – Word Eater

  • tofusmell – All My Time

  • White Denim – 13

Noah Kahan Turns Distance, Identity, & Time into His Most Defining Statement Yet on ‘The Great Divide’

:: FEATURE ::



May 2026

May 1 Music Releases

  • American Football – American Football (LP4)

  • Ben Auld – Loserdom

  • The Black Keys – Peaches!

  • BLARF – Film Scores for Films That Don’t Exist

  • B.o.B – The Morning Bang

  • Emma Louise – Sunshine for Happiness

  • ERNEST– Deep Blue

  • Great Lake Swimmers – Caught Light

  • Hiss Golden Messenger – I’m People

  • IRATION – Where It All Began

  • Jesca Hoop – Long Wave Home

  • Kacey Musgraves – Middle of Nowhere

  • Kneecap – FENIAN

  • Laibach – Musick

  • Lip Critic – Theft World

  • Maya Hawke – Maitreya Corso

  • Melanie C – Sweat

  • Modern Woman – Johnny’s Dreamworld

  • Moon Walker – WASTELAND COUNTRY

  • Noelle Scaggs – Money Fame Love

  • Nora Mae – fin

  • Pigeon – OUTTANATIONAL

  • Rachael Fahim – Who You Are

  • Saint Sappho – Between the Lines

  • Simone White – Letter To The Last Generation

  • Slow Leaves – The Ruins of Things Unfinished

  • Tarragon – Home At Cofa’s

  • Tori Amos – In Times of Dragons

  • Valley Boy – Children of Divorce

  • Weird Nightmare – Hoopla

  • Young the Giant – Victory Garden ⭐

May 8 Music Releases

  • Action Bronson – Planet Frog

  • Aldous Harding – Train On The Island

  • Broken Social Scene – Remember The Humans

  • Brother Wallace – Electric Love

  • Carín León – MUDA

  • Carla J. Easton – I Think That I Might Love You

  • Cola – Cost of Living Adjustment

  • Deb Never – ARCADE

  • Ellen Froese – Solitary Songs

  • girli – it’s just my opinion

  • The Haunted Youth – Boys Cry Too

  • Jena Malone – Flowers for Men

  • Josiah and the Bonnevilles – As Is

  • JWords – Sound Therapy

  • The Lemon Twigs – Look For Your Mind!

  • Lo Simple – I Become You

  • lucky break – made it!

  • Lykke Li – The Afterparty

  • Menzies – Holding My Cold Hand, Even Though Yours Is Warm

  • MUNA – Dancing on the Wall ⭐

  • Ray Bull – Please Stop Laughing ⭐

  • Rosenthal – Luna

  • Stephen Sanchez – Love, Love, Love

May 15 Music Releases

  • The All-American Rejects – Sandbox

  • Dua Saleh – Of Earth & Wires

  • Emma Louise – Sunshine for Happiness

  • Genesis Owusu – REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE

  • The Hoosiers – Compassion

  • Jack Johnson – SURFILMUSIC Soundtrack and 4-Tracks

  • Jobi Riccio – Face the Feeling

  • Kevin Morby – Little Wide Open

  • Leanna Firestone – The Answer

  • Mad Honey – Bridge Over Cumberland

  • Maisie Peters – florescence

  • Nymphlord – Shedding Velvet

  • Rostam – American Stories

  • Shakey Graves – Fondness, Etc.

  • Tank and the Bangas – The Last Balloon

May 22 Music Releases

  • 6LACK – Love Is The New Gangsta

  • aja monet – the color of rain

  • Balming Tiger – Gongbu

  • Beck Zegans – Engraving of Armor

  • Bleachers – everyone for ten minutes

  • Ed O’Brien – Blue Morpho

  • Future Islands – From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth

  • Hammock – The Second Coming Was A Moonrise

  • Jacob Augustine – I Love You Forever

  • Little Barrie – Gravity Freeze

  • Lowertown – Ugly Duckling Union

  • Radhika – Cine-Pop

May 29 Music Releases

  • Boards of Canada – Inferno

  • Deer Fellow – Hues

  • Emily James – Summer Nostalgia

  • Emmet Cohen – Universal Truth

  • Francis of Delirium – Run, Run Pure Beauty

  • Freya Ridings – Mother of Pearl

  • Guided By Voices – Crawlspace of the Pantheon

  • Kiefer Sutherland – Grey

  • Labrinth – Cosmic Opera Act II

  • Lenka – Good Days

  • KÁRYYN – PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL)

  • Kurt Vile – Philadelphia’s been good to me

  • Marianna Winter – The More You Know

  • Oakwood – Blurred Away

  • Rare DM – Attention

  • Villagerrr – Carousel

  • Violet Grohl – Be Sweet to Me



June 2026

June 5 Music Releases

  • Bye Parula – Something Out Of Nothing

  • Death Cab for Cutie – I Built You a Tower

  • FIGHTMASTER – Tolerance

  • Futurebirds – Far Out Country

  • Jalen Ngonda – Doctrine of Love

  • Jeff Goldblum – Night Blooms

  • Lizzo – Bitch

  • Modest Mouse – An Eraser and a Maze

  • Niall Horan – Dinner Party

  • Old Crow Medicine Show – Union Made

  • Poppy Ackroyd – Liminal

  • The Red Clay Strays – Grateful

  • Satya – Yellow House

  • Widowspeak – Roses

  • zzzahara – Distant Lands

June 12 Music Releases

  • Alex Amen – Sun of Amen

  • Baauer – U

  • Bebe Rexha – DIRTY BLONDE

  • The Bobby Lees – New Self

  • Des Rocs – To Hell and Back

  • Diles que no me maten – Escrito en Agua

  • Fruit Bats – The Landfill

  • Goose – BIG MODERN!

  • Keith Urban – Flow State

  • Kelsey Lu – So Help Me God

  • Olivia Rodrigo – you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love

  • Ruel – Kicking & Screaming

  • Sublime – Until the Sun Explodes

  • TELESCREENS – Why The Lights Flicker

June 19 Music Releases

  • Swamp Dogg – Swamp Dogg Contemplates the Afterlife

  • Swim Deep – Hum

  • Pond – Terrestrials

  • ZOON – HAPPY THOUGHT SCHOOL

June 26 Music Releases

  • Atta Boy – Silt

  • Beth Orton – The Ground Above

  • Borderline – Borderline

  • Chanel Beads – Your Day Will Come

  • Curls Ultra – American Blood

  • Dari Bay – Surprise Wish

  • Harmony – Lifetime

  • Jacob Ungerleider – Congratulations

  • Julez and the Rollerz – Dirty Little Rock ‘N’ Roller

  • Kita Alexander – RAGE

  • Muse – The WOW! Signal

  • The Pretty Reckless – DEAR GOD

  • proun – Maybe Luck

  • Stephan Moccio – Scenes From a Velvet Room

  • The Strokes – Reality Awaits

  • Temples – BLISS

July 2026

July 3 Music Releases

  • Low Cut Connie – Livin in the USA

  • Madonna – Confessions ll

  • mary in the junkyard – Role Model Hermit

July 10 Music Releases

  • Baby Smith – Lately, Love Is Dead

  • Finn Wolfhard – Fire from the Hip

  • Houndmouth – Lordy

  • Jacob Brodovsky – Tell The Kids We Tried

  • JORDY – In Retrospect

  • Suki Waterhouse – Loveland

  • The Temper Trap – Sungazer

July 17 Music Releases

  • The Menzingers – Everything I Ever Saw

  • Swapmeet – Mount Zero

  • Tricky – Different When It’s Silent

July 24 Music Releases

  • Budjerah – Gentleman

  • Punch Brothers – The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers

  • TYLA – A*POP

July 31 Music Releases

  • Ariana Grande – petal

  • Cheekface – Podium

  • Family Stereo – The Thread

  • Lucia & The Best Boys – Picking Petals

  • Opus Kink – The Sweet Goodbye

  • Shaboozey – The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales

August 2026

August 7 Music Releases

  • Pop Etc – 99¢ dreams / god in the basket

  • Public Opinion – The Curse of Public Opinion

September 2026

September 4 Music Releases

  • Bayonne – Filters

  • Natalie Imbruglia – Algorithm

  • Soft Loft – Throw a Dice ⭐

September 11 Music Releases

September 18 Music Releases

  • Both Hands – Be Like A Mountain In A Moonlit Way

  • Corella – A Beautiful World To Lose

October 2026

October 9 Music Releases

  • Sarah Julia – The Fear That This is Real