Albums, artists, and the sound of right now.
"Last Call: One More for the Road - The Finale" ended Alan Jackson's touring life on Saturday night in Nashville, with a two-part show that handed his catalog to the singers he raised, then let him sing it himself.
PJ Harvey returns with an orchestral single sung from the perspective of the Voyager 2 spacecraft, her first release in three years and the first sign of the album she has been writing.
Tasha's fourth album opens a cappella with L'Rain and Jamila Woods and never stops sounding sure of itself. The control is earned. The surprise is what it trades away.
Cesar Gueikian, who steered Gibson from a 2018 bankruptcy back to credibility with players, will leave the top job on July 31. Anne Rohosy runs the company in the interim.
On their fifth album, Temples swap guitars for synths and drum machines, aiming at late-90s dance music. The reinvention mostly works, and the singles are strong enough to make the next move matter.
Boards of Canada's first record in thirteen years is their darkest and most physical. The first half, thick with sampled sermons and chanting, is the best music Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin have made in two decades. The back half drifts.
Brutalismus 3000's second album, out today on Live From Earth, tightens their gabber bluntness without losing it. It's the best they've sounded.
Ibeyi's fourth album arrives on IBEYI Records, the duo's own label, after three records on XL. 'Offering' is shorter, heavier, and more self-reliant than 2022's 'Spell 31.'
Beth Orton's ninth album is out on Partisan, self-produced for the second time and tracked live with most of the Weather Alive band. The front half floats. Then 'Waiting' walks in and the record turns into a soul album.
Hutch Harris wrote, played, and recorded the eighth Thermals album by himself at his Portland studio, the same way he made 2003's More Parts Per Million. Lead single 'Spirit Collectors' is out now.
ATEEZ released GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 on Friday, a five-track EP built on Brazilian funk and led by the single "BAD." It is their second comeback of 2026 and the fifth installment of a series they started in May 2024.
Cécile McLorin Salvant's "With Every Breath I Take" lands on Nonesuch: her first album with an orchestra, four years in the making, and she picked the hard songs on purpose.
Sam Smith's fifth album arrives August 21 on Capitol with lead single 'My Guy.' The credits, Feist, Rob Moose, Shahzad Ismaily and a session at Electric Lady, point away from the 'Unholy' era.