
L'Rain Announces Fata Morgana, Shares Soulless Cycle
Taja Cheek's fourth L'Rain album arrives in August via Mexican Summer, with a Mackai Sharp-directed video opening the cycle.
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Taja Cheek's fourth L'Rain album arrives in August via Mexican Summer, with a Mackai Sharp-directed video opening the cycle.

The Los Angeles band previews Dirty Little Rock 'N' Roller with a final single about performance, pressure, and staying loud anyway.

The duo's first new single of 2026 arrives with an official video and a full-band run stretching from fall into early 2027.

The Philadelphia punk band preview their July album with a Britain Weyant-directed video and a song about choosing connection over cynicism.

The Indianapolis indie-rock band will release its second album October 2 via Winspear, with Lovesick opening the next chapter after Triple Seven.

White's seventh solo album ships July 10 via Third Man Records, with Dollar Bill joining April singles G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs and Derecho Demonico.

The fall run celebrates the 2006 album with August Burns Red and Atreyu on the bill, plus As Cities Burn and Emery on select dates.

The Oklahoma City noise-rock band will release the 10-track album September 4 via The Flenser, with Deep Blue streaming now.

The 2026 run starts in September after two festival dates, with stops at Radio City Music Hall, The Salt Shed, The Anthem, and the Greek Theatre.

The New York band will release its first album for Partisan Records on August 28, led by the title track and "See Out Loud."

Marc Almond and the late Dave Ball will close Soft Cell's studio catalog with a September 25 album rooted in early-1980s New York.

The band says McCulloch needed medical treatment after a road incident while traveling from Washington, D.C. to Philadelphia, though his injuries are not believed to be serious.

The Gainesville punk institution's second wave also includes Algernon Cadwallader, Texas is the Reason, Torche, Small Brown Bike, and a pile of album sets.

The five-song release landed on Bandcamp today, with John Dwyer steering the band back toward long jams, tape-burned takes, and organ-rock weirdness.

Bridgers will take The Lost Tour through North American, UK, Irish, and European arenas this fall, with phones locked away for the shows.

Lacy's third album is due in July via RCA Records, with a Matt Castellanos-directed video opening the next phase of his solo catalog.

The Irish folk-punk band's third album lands in September, with a UK and Ireland run following in October and December.

The added run stretches from Houston to Buffalo, with ticket signups open through the band's official tour page.

The 19-date S&M Tour starts September 30 in Charlotte, with Brennan Wedl and Scarlet Rae splitting support duties.

Jennifer Herrema's post-Royal Trux trio have signed with Fire Records, with Bad Bunch due later this year.

The band’s 10th album is due August 21, with a newly announced fall run through Europe and North America following this year’s 40th anniversary dates.

Chris Stewart's synth-pop project returns with an 11-track album due in August and one song streaming now.

The first taste of Mastodon's next album arrives with writing credits for Nick Johnston and Joao Nogueira, and a heavy emotional center.

The Chicago punks will release their 10-song full-length debut on July 24 via Exploding In Sound, with "Price of Gas" clocking in at 89 seconds.

The 23-date fall run brings I See Stars, Vana, and Melrose Avenue along, while “Sleeping With the Enemy” previews In This Moment’s next album.

The Rage Against the Machine guitarist's new protest anthem unites him with System of a Down's Serj Tankian and his teenage shredder son, ahead of his upcoming solo album on Mom + Pop and the all-star Power to the People festival.

Dev Hynes loops back into the world of last year's Essex Honey, sampling the Sky Ferreira track he produced more than a decade ago over a clattering breakbeat.

The Scottish duo's fifth studio album, an 18-track, 70-minute double LP, lands on Warp Records and ends the wait that began with 2013's Tomorrow's Harvest.

The Kentucky hardcore band and the Florida rapper turn their February collaboration into a 24-date North American run this fall, with Superheaven and Boundaries opening every night.

Chanel Beads add “Dust in the Wind,” an Isaac Eiger co-write, to Your Day Will Come and announce a fall North American run.

The Throwing Muses/50FOOTWAVE leader’s new Fire Records solo album arrives in September with Rob Ahlers and Pete Harvey aboard.

The Maynard James Keenan/Billy Howerdel track lands before the band’s first UK and European dates in eight years.

Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye helped prepare the Alex Chilton-produced recordings, due August 21 via the revived Vengeance imprint.

The Dublin noise-rock band’s first new song since 2023 arrives with a limited 7-inch and a long North American/European run.

The Reset collaborators return July 10 with a physical-and-download release built for “IRL not URL” listening.

Keigo Oyamada’s Eat Your Own Ears debut arrives August 19 with Sean Ono Lennon, Shintaro Sakamoto, Arto Lindsay, and Bid among the guests.

Vini Reilly’s project returns July 31 via London Records with “Liars,” an album-closing Factory thread, and guests including Caoilfhionn Rose.

The New York band’s new album arrives August 21 via Fire Talk, with MJ Lenderman contributing guitar and a long fall tour ahead.

Dylan Young’s Melbourne project will bring Massive Shoe overseas on October 2 and play its first North American dates this fall.

The 22-date North American run starts November 13 in San Diego, with Ensiferum and Rhapsody of Fire opening every date.

The Melbourne garage-punk cult heroes are back with their fifth LP, an 11-song self-released album recorded in 2025 at Squires Loft.

The avant-prog metal band’s first three albums are coming back October 30 in a hand-numbered wooden box via Avant Night and Joyful Noise.

The Southend band’s fifth album arrives September 25 via RCA/Sony, with a 38-date Stray Dogs tour stretching from Paris to Toronto in 2027.

An 18-wheeler rear-ended the Austin punk band's tour van outside Albuquerque on May 18. All three members are hospitalized, the spring tour is canceled, and a GoFundMe has cleared $134,000.

The frontman tied the announcement to self-acceptance, sobriety, and Beartooth’s upcoming Pure Ecstasy era.

The Montreal experimental heavy band’s new album arrives June 12 via Thrill Jockey.

The Red Parakeet split pairs Watt’s take on Dinosaur Jr. with Mascis covering Dos.

The Dublin band will play Cádiz, Alicante, and Pamplona in August before their Reading & Leeds headline slots.

The Radiohead frontman accepted the Ivors Academy Fellowship, performed a new solo song, and warned that the industry is starving its future.

The Pittsburgh noise-pop band’s third album arrives May 26 via Saddle Creek after a cryptic teaser rollout.

The Toronto indie-rock band’s new album arrives August 14, with Protomartyr, Alvvays, En Attendant Ana, Fred Thomas, and more in the orbit.

The new Matador release is out digitally now, with a physical edition following October 16.

The art-punk duo’s new album arrives August 14, led by the nervy opener “Shooting Shadows.”

The Scottish duo’s ninth studio album arrives September 4 via Rock Action, with a 15-date UK and European tour to follow.

The Dublin post-punk band’s second album arrives September 25 via Play It Again Sam, with a long autumn headline tour lined up.

The trio’s first new studio material since their Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All at Once score leads into a 29-date international run.

The New York hardcore veterans’ 10th album arrives July 24 via Nuclear Blast, with Freddy Cricien calling the first single the catalyst for what followed.

The July 10 Reprise/Warner release remasters the 2010 Killjoys album and adds nine bonus tracks, several reaching vinyl and streaming for the first time.

Wyatt and Fletcher Shears’ eighth album arrives July 10 with 14 tracks, no grand plan, and a Will Sipos-directed video built for the Vada Vada chaos file.

The shoegaze veterans will bring their 1991 debut across North America in August and December, with general on-sale set for May 15.

The Nashville-based duo’s follow-up to their 2024 double album arrives August 14 via Arts & Crafts, with fall headline dates following support runs with Bleachers and Wilco.

Adam Granduciel says the band is “almost done making a record,” while new fall dates fill in the road around Bourbon & Beyond and Austin City Limits.

The Perth psych-rock band’s latest preview of Terrestrials arrives with spring-reverb thunderclaps, a van-born origin story, and a full summer U.S. itinerary.

The London indie band’s new Fiction Records single reopens the door after A Billion Heartbeats with psych-rock bite and a ritual-cleanse premise.

The New York hardcore experimentalists return July 10 via Loma Vista with a Klas Åhlund-produced record and a snarling new single.

Kele Okereke says the Trevor Horn-produced album tells the story of a breakup and its aftermath with a level of candor Bloc Party have not reached before.

The latest preview of Rostam's American Stories turns a long-shelved instrumental into a soft-focus reunion with one of his defining collaborators.

The South London chaos merchants turn a brush-off into a festival-sized synth-punk chant ahead of a packed UK and European run.

The Ipswich band are back on Run For Cover with a John Congleton-produced album and a summer European run.

The Long Island melodic hardcore band return with a 10-song, 28-minute second album via Pure Noise Records.

The Scottish electronic duo's first proper songs from 'Inferno' arrive with a Robert Beatty-directed video ahead of the album's May 29 release on Warp.

The trio's North American run starts September 17 in Phoenix and ends October 21 at Red Rocks, with Hemlocke Springs supporting most headline dates.

The Southern California post-hardcore band return September 4 via Fearless Records with a 12-track album produced by Will Yip.

The El Paso post-hardcore lifers will take their sixth album across Dublin, London, Paris, Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg, and more this October.

The Paramore singer's solo run now stretches from West Palm Beach to San Juan, with Magdalena Bay, Rico Nasty, and Annie DiRusso supporting select dates.

The sub-250-capacity run lands days after injury episode arrives via Sumerian Records, bringing the band back into its sweat-box mythology.

The Los Angeles punk lifers will close their reunion era with a fall North American run billed as the first leg of their farewell world tour.

After more than a decade on Run For Cover, the Virginia band return with Down On Earth and the new songs “Nightjar” and “I See You And Realize.”

The Leeds band’s third album arrives July 17 via Island Records, with lead single “Redeemer” opening a cycle built from five uninterrupted months of writing.

The Chicago psych-doom quartet’s new album lands July 24 via Sargent House, pushing their heavy-lidded dream logic further into the clouds.

The Danish punk band’s third preview of For Love of Grace & the Hereafter keeps the album cycle wired, unstable, and pointed toward May 29.

The post-punk veterans’ 2026 run picks back up July 31 in Park City and continues through September 6 in Miami Beach, with Living Colour on most dates.

The New York post-hardcore band’s first album in five years arrives July 17 via Equal Vision, with "Get To It" and "Regenerate" streaming now.

The album arrives July 10 via Warp, with PinkPantheress, Fousheé, and A. K. Paul among the featured guests.

The Manchester-born poet and producer's second album arrives Aug. 21 via Mushroom Music/Virgin Music Group, with a UK and Ireland headline run following in October.

The Boston hardcore band’s new single previews Hum of Hurt, out digitally June 5 through Deathwish Inc. and physically July 17.

The Los Angeles band’s summer routing includes five dates with Lowertown, five East Coast headliners, and two August shows opening for Wunderhorse.

AFI will continue the Holy Visions run this fall with a new North American leg stretching from Sept. 26 in Mexico City through Oct. 28 in Tucson.

Members of Poison Ruin and Sheer Mag team up for stompy, melodic power-pop on their full-length debut, due July 31 via K Records imprint Perennial.

The New York synth-punk collective teams with Uniform's Ben Greenberg and Sepultura's Iggor Cavalera for their most unhinged record yet.

The reclusive Scottish duo will host simultaneous listening sessions in seven cities one week before their first album in 13 years drops.

Two pillars of '90s alt-rock team up for a 10-date US run in September, from the Greek Theatre to Fenway.

The indie rock veterans return to independent life with their sharpest, most angular single in years, lifted from I Built You A Tower, due June 5.

The Toledo emo veterans return with their sixth album on Run For Cover, plus a stacked world tour with Anxious, Hotline TNT, and Drug Church.

The emo icons team with Thrice and Saves the Day for a 19-date fall run, plus a Louder Now 20th anniversary show at Red Rocks.

The Sydney trio pivot from nostalgia to noise on a My Bloody Valentine-indebted rocker previewing their August LP, plus UK and Australian tour dates.

Toronto's jangle-pop torchbearers link up with Real Estate's frontman for Grant McLennan's 'Easy Come, Easy Go,' then hit the road for 12 dates.

The Birmingham post-punk veterans return with their first new music since 2022's EBM, plus 30 dates across the continent and a new Birmingham venue.

The North Carolina bedroom-pop star and Welsh producer link up for a full-length LP due May 8, previewed by the garage-inflected 'The Troubles.'

The Liverpool genre-benders return with A Stranger To You on July 17 via SharpTone, featuring collabs with NOWHERE2RUN, Static Dress, and Jordan Rakei.

The Philly power-pop band returns with their first album in three years, produced alongside Modern Baseball's Ian Farmer.

A Las Vegas residency, a CBGB Festival headline slot with Patti Smith and Interpol, and 12 fall dates across the East Coast and Southwest.

The original QOTSA bassist returned to perform 'Auto Pilot' at the Catacombs Tour opener, marking his first appearance with the band since 2014.

Liverpool's gothic pop auteur returns with 'Vampire At The Beach' and an EP of dark romance featuring Pete Doherty and John Cooper Clarke, out May 22.

The LA band's sophomore album is a concept record about loss, trauma, and the brutal work of healing — and it's one of the most ambitious rock releases of 2026 so far.

The dream pop veterans hit the road June through July with two of indie rock's sharpest support acts, plus stops at Governors Ball and Bonnaroo.

The Boss opened his Austin show by condemning political violence and acknowledging the assassination attempt at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner.

The Orlando-via-Grand Rapids post-hardcore band return to Rise Records with their eighth studio album, due June 12 and produced by Will Yip.

The Paramore singer took aim at country music's mainstream during her Ryman Auditorium homecoming weekend, bringing out Nashville punk band Snõõper for a surprise set.

Dave Grohl and company performed 'Caught in the Echo' and 'Child Actor' on the London-filmed show, with Grohl also popping up in sketches alongside Nicola Coughlan.

James Murphy and co. add a run of August and September shows spanning Vancouver to Atlanta, including two nights at Red Rocks and a Shaky Knees Festival close.

The third taste of Muse's tenth album finds Matthew Bellamy singing about an 'ice queen who turns blood into diamonds' over dystopian production from the band and Dan Lancaster.

At an intimate, phones-banned set at The Echo, Rodrigo brought out Natalie Mering for what fans described as a 'heartbreaking ballad' from her upcoming third album.

Jonah Bergman directs the closing track from 'Silver Bleeds the Black Sun' while the band tears through North America.

Third in the catalog reclamation series from SST. DSG Mastering lacquers and a limited punk note edition.

Cameron Winter and the band play bigger rooms than ever this summer and fall, closing out the year at The Salt Shed and beyond.

LP8 drops June 5 via Isaac Brock's own Glacial Pace Recordings. Lead singles 'Look How Far' and 'Picking Dragons' Pockets' are already out.

Out May 1 on Polyvinyl. The legendary emo band's fourth album arrives alongside their biggest tour yet, with dollar-a-ticket donations to Safe Passage International.

The Canadian indie-rock supergroup's first album in nine years arrives May 8 on Arts & Crafts. The 'All the Feelings Tour' with Metric and Stars kicks off in June.

The Chicago quartet expand to a four-piece and work with producer John Congleton for the follow-up to one of 2024's best rock debuts.

The post-Isaac Wood sextet returns to the US and Canada in June and July, with Chicago's Horsegirl opening all dates.

Ben Gibbard says the band is 'thrilled' to join Anti-, which counts some of their 'favorite artists, old friends' on its roster. A new era begins.

Third LP drops March 27 on Mom+Pop. 'Site Unseen' with Katie Crutchfield is the kind of duet you didn't know you needed until now.

Lindsey Jordan is back. Ricochet drops March 27 on Matador, and lead single 'Dead End' is already doing what Snail Mail does best.

Cameron Winter and co. head to Studio 8H on January 24. Your parents are going to have questions.