New Albums 2026

MARY IN THE JUNKYARD – English Indie Newcomers Triumph With Debut Album ‘ROLE MODEL HERMIT’

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7 July 2026


Credit: Xander Lewis

Band: MARY IN THE JUNKYARD
Who: Post-rock-punk indie trio
from London.

Album: ROLE MODEL MERMIT
Their debut.

Press info: A record bursting with creativity and experimentation.
A blend of dark fables, intricate melodies and moments of revelation.


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NME: “On their long-awaited first record, the London trio continue weaving fantastical tales with their surreal sound. The record’s sinewy assurance and structure across its first half also forms a trap, at times more constraint than conduit for the trio’s natural charisma. Across the latter half, the music again feels like a shared pact for dreaming, structures that build and wind. Sometimes magic is all in the details, grand or granular.”

TUTV: MITJ create capricious, entrancing, voltaic indie music with tortoise-like,
torch-burning songs. As inventive and adventurous as their countrymen Black Country,
New Road and English Teacher. They don’t rock, they don’t punk, they don’t pop, they
don’t scream and shout.

They embed illusory and poetic meditations into cloudy compositions with a mesmerising intimacy and creaking violin moments. Guitarist Clari Freeman-Taylor‘s vocals are weirdly charming and instrumental for this engrossing debut triumph. Wrap yourself in their imaginative spheres. It’s a transfixing place to be in.

SINGLE

ALBUM


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THE MARS VOLTA Reveal Details Of New Live Album – Info & First Single Here

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4 July 2026


Photo: Clemente Ruiz

Texan duo THE MARS VOLTA featuring Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala,
who both started their careers with wayward rockers At The Drive-In, will follow their
8 studio LPs with a live one, named LUCRO SUCIO; UNFINISHED BUSINESS out on September 4 (digital) and October 16 (physical editions).

The band had offered fans access to previews of recordings captured during their live 2025 tour and invited them to vote on which ones should make the final album. Each song was represented by a visual marker related to the city where its recording was captured.

The first appetizer is a new bulldozing roller coaster,
titled CUE THE SUN / ALBA DEL ORATE.


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TOUR DATES

Tour Tickets – Instagram

No Expiration Date For DEEP PURPLE – Their New Album ‘SPLAT!’ Is An Old Skool Hard Rock Turbine

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3 July 2026

English legendary hard rock titans DEEP PURPLE have
their 24th album, titled SPLAT! out. Order info here

Press info: At the heart, SPLAT! is an idea conceived by Gillan. Rather than treating the end as destruction, the album imagines it as transformation. It explores the end of humanity
not in any crude apocalyptic sense but as a metamorphosis beyond physical existence.

Ian Gillan (vocalist): “Where we are now with this incarnation of Deep Purple feels very much like a very ‘now’ version of Deep Purple as it was in the seventies. I have to say, now we are very much back in with material that is compatible with ‘Highway Star’, ‘Smoke on the Water’, ‘Lazy’, the dynamics, the balance, and the fun of the music we made from ‘69 to ‘73.” ”

MOJO Magazine (British music monthly): “Producer Bob Ezrin has turned up
the group’s Deep Purple-ness without lapsing into self-parody. Most of the songs
here crack along at a furious pace.”

TUTV: No expiration date for Deep Purple, who score here a high-voltage,
hard-rocking piece de resistance. Yes, after more than 5 decades they still
sound the same, with all DP’s characteristics on all cylinders: jumbo tunes,
staggering orchestrations, symphonic organ vibrancy, old skool guitar solos
and Ian Gillan‘s still brobdingnagian vocals, but the all-around, non-stop
puissant forcefulness is timelessly strong.

Never change a winning formula. Headstrong hellraisers like Arrongant Boy,
Diabolo, The Only Horse In Town, Guilty Trippin’ and Sacred Land show us why
Deep Purple still is a fireball turbine.

KEY SINGLE

ALBUM


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Their extensive 2026 touring schedule will bring them
in 28 countries on three continents. All dates HERE.

Amazing Album Artwork – Cover Of Brand New One By Canadian Songwriter NIXON BOYD

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2 July 2026

Artist: NIXON BOYD
Who: Singer-songwriter from Ontario, Canada
who’s also the guitarist of indie rock band Hollerado.

Album: EVERY TIME WE TURN A CORNER

Stereogum says: “What makes this album so special is his
lyrical and sonic sparseness. Bare bones, bare feelings.”

Eye-catching LP cover, ear-catching tunes.

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Amazing Album Artwork – Cover Of 2nd LP By Art Pop Artist CHANEL BEADS

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29 June 2026

Artist: CHANEL BEADS
Who: Musical project of American art-pop
singer-songwriter Shane Lavers.

Album: YOUR DAY WILL COME
His 2nd LP, named exactly the same
as his debut one from 2024.

NME says: “The New York artist is all about refinement rather than repetition. The songs add up to a melodic, daring work that poses knotty questions about the reflexivity of listening and whether it’s possible for an artist to achieve a clean break from expectations, like a dissertation you can kick back to.”

Eh, hello to you too.

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BETH ORTON Lights Spiritual Candelight Delight With 9th LP ‘THE GROUND ABOVE’

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26 June 2026


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British long-time renowned singer-songwriter BETH ORTON has her
9th full-length, titled THE GROUND ABOVE out today. Order info here.

Press info: “For more than 30 years, Beth Orton has been our antenna to the cosmos,
the poet laureate of forces too vast to take in all at once. A testament to her artistry,
the album her most direct and unapologetic music to date.

Urgent, raw, embodied and emotionally fearless, moving between subconscious expression and expansive, timeless song craft. Her voice, from whispered incantation
to primal wail, equally delivers melodies reminiscent of classic songbook form. Throughout the album, Orton documents survival and renewal, motherhood and identity, political unease, and the ongoing choice to stay – in love, in art, and in the world.”

TUTV: Orton lights candlelight delight, starring her vulnerable, slightly hoarse,
but very absorbing voice. She translates ruminative life-mattering thoughts into
moving music that evokes the listener’s silent attention for the full 47 minutes.
The Ground Above is a enthrallingly bittersweet humdinger of a record.

A spiritual companion for tranquil moments.


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Album on Spotify – Instagram – Linktree

CYPRESS HILL – Hip-Hop Legends Release New All Spanish (start crying MAGA) Album ‘DIOS BENDIGA’ On July 17 – Info & 2 Singles Here

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26 June 2026

It has been 4 years since hip-rap-hop dopeheads
CYPRESS HILL released LP #10 with Back In Black.

But the wait is over. Full-length #11 is in the bag. DIOS BENDIGA is an album performed entirely in Spanish that aims to highlight their Latin roots and reconnect directly with their cultural heritage. Out July 24th. Pre-order info here.

Press info: “Hip-hop legends Cypress Hill were the first Latino-American hip-hop group to achieve platinum and multiplatinum success. In partnership with Hybe Latin America, they present the first, fully Spanish-language album of their career.

The album includes all new music, written and performed by the band entirely in Spanish.
This is a deeply personal and spiritual project for the group that highlights their Latin roots
and reconnects directly with their cultural heritage.”

Singles.

– CAMPEONES –

– WACHA TRUTA –

TOUR DATES

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JOY DIVISON – Expansive Boxset (14 CDs & 2 DVDs) ‘ETERNAL’ In September – Info & Preview Track Here

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25 June 2026


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Some JOY DIVISION live music
came out back in 1980 and 1981.

First, the registration of a concert in Preston, UK. You can stream it here.
The recording took place a few weeks before Ian Curtis‘s death (18 May 1980).

A year later saw the release of a double album called Still. It consisted of previously released and unreleased studio material and a live recording of Joy Division‘s last
concert, performed at Birmingham University, 2 May 1980.

Now Warner Bros Music just announced a new, expansive JD project.
A live boxset featuring no less than 14 CDs and 2 DVDs, titled ETERNAL.

The collection reveals audio from 16 live performances, meticulously sourced
from audience recorded cassettes, soundboard tapes and broadcast recordings,
all mastered at Abbey Road Studios.

The two DVDs show over 2hrs 30mins of live shows, including the previously
unseen Plan K, Brussels concert and the Apollo Theatre, Manchester gig. Both
have only been partially released on VHS, in 1982, and get a brand new edit
here for the box.

Release date: September 30th.
Offical JD store HERE

Along with the news we get a preview of of an emotional live version of their
sublime stand-alone single Transmission from a 1979 concert in Paris.


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MAN/CHAINSAW/WOMAN Believe The New British Post Punk Hype And Hear Their 4 Singles

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25 June 2026


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Band: MAN/WOMAN/CHAINSAW
Who: Unadulterated indies
from London, UK.

On August 10th, they will unleash their long-awaited debut
full-length, called Cannonball. Tracklist and order info here

Press info: “Grand and exuberant, rich with unconventional structures and world-beating choruses, the long-awaited record makes good on the band’s years of hard touring while unearthing new dimensions and unlikely facets in their songwriting; It is a sharp, smart first record, one which presents Man/Woman/Chainsaw exactly as they are right now.”

NME: “Their debut album is an exploratory, widescreen record that significantly levels
up the south London six-piece’s early material, expanding the runaway art-rock chaos that landed them in last year’s NME 100 into something no less intriguing but significantly more pop.”

TUTV: My ears believe the hype.

Newest single.

All 4 singles.


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New SMASHING PUMPKINS Tribute Album In August

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A new tribute album for American rock heavyweights THE SMASHING PUMPKINS (formed in 1998 / 13 LPs) arrives, digitally on August 14th, vinyl in October. Pre-order info here.

Named Sending Hearts To All My Dearies: A Tribute To The Smashing Pumpkins
the album contains 15 cross-genre covers of songs spanning Pumpkins’ discography. Contributors include Tame Impala, Alice Glass, Nita Strauss, Yonaka, Des Rocs, Meg Myers, Between The Buried and Me, and Palaye Royale, among others.

Tame Impala‘s version of Hummer, a track from the Pumpkins‘
1993 LP Siamese Dream is downright luring, even more psychedelic
colored than the original.

TAME IMPALA

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS

Tracklist

01. Tame Impala – Hummer
02. Yonaka – Today
03. The Midnight – Tonight, Tonight
04. Carpenter Brut – Cherub Rock
05. Barns Courtney – 1979
06. Meg Myers – Eye
07. Palaye Royale – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
08. Between The Buried and Me – Jellybelly
09. Alice Glass – Drown
10. Starbenders – Tonight, Tonight
11. Nita Strauss – 1979
12. Bones UK – Cherub Rock
13. Moon Taxi – Thirty Three
14. Des Rocs – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
15. Urban Heat – Ava Adore

All Tour Dates HERE.