Album of the Year
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- New Music Friday: Ratboys - Singin' To An Empty Chair "Singin’ to an Open Chair is a wonderful album that shows Ratboys revving their engine once again, ready to take another long, curious lap around the block." @popmatters.com
- New Music Friday: Joji - Piss In The Wind "Former YouTube star’s fourth album seems to deliberately infuse his music with a nagging sense of incompleteness." @the-independent.com
- New Music Friday: Mandy, Indiana - URGH "The noise-rock band’s second album is a breakthrough: insidiously catchy, incomprehensibly groovy, and fueled by righteous fury." @pitchfork.com
- New Music Friday: J. Cole - The Fall-Off "It’s also a salute to his own journey – both a look backwards, and a suggestion of where he could go, the rapper seems to fold his story over into origami-like structures." @clashmusic.com
- Check out our full list of this week's new releases.
- What are you listening to first tonight?
- What's your favorite track on Don Toliver's 'OCTANE'?
- Friko's new album 'Something Worth Waiting For' is out April 24.
- Broken Social Scene are releasing their new album 'Remember The Humans' on May 8.
- After sitting with it for a few days, what's your favorite track off of By Storms' 'My Ghosts Go Ghost'?
- Who do you have taking home Album of the Year tonight at the Grammys?
- One month into 2026! What was your favorite new release from January?
- New Music Friday: Blackwater Holylight - Not Here Not Gone "It’s easily Blackwater Holylight’s best-produced record to date, making their densely layered slabs of noise sound downright heavenly." - Spectrum Culture
- New Music Friday: URNE - Setting Fire To The Sky "Urne have succeeded by not attempting to do more of the same, and have instead made their biggest, boldest, most universal-sounding album to date." - Metal Hammer
- New Music Friday: Joyce Manor - I Used to Go to This Bar "The Los Angeles pop-punk trio spends its seventh album wrestling with nostalgia, finding nuance and emotional complexity in their everyday grievances." @pitchfork.com
- New Music Friday: Don Toliver - OCTANE "Few figures are able to blend such atmospheric, devoutly underground ideas with pop finesse. Don Toliver’s ‘Octane’ represents a thrilling, turbo-charged race to the finish." @clashmusic.com
- New Music Friday: By Storm - My Ghosts Go Ghost "What gives it staying power is its emotional clarity; its deep wells of feeling that slice apart the digi-chaos like beams of light through a swollen sky." @clashmusic.com
- Check out our full list of this week's new releases.
- Jessie Ware's new album 'Superbloom' is out April 10.
- Thundercat's new album 'Distracted' is out April 3rd.
- What are you listening to first tonight?
- New Music Friday: Poppy - Empty Hands "When she’s got something that lights her on fire, she’s unstoppable, and this is how she’s been able to write possibly her best songs yet." @kerrang.com
- New Music Friday: Megadeth - Megadeth "Tuneful yet overlong, Dave Mustaine and co’s final album is a recap of Megadeth’s strengths, flaws and familiar grudges." @theguardian.com
- Check out our full list of this week's new releases.
- James Blake Trying Times 📅March 13th
- What are you listening to first tonight?
- Denzel Curry's new group The Scythe will release their debut project, Strictly 4 The Scythe, on March 6th.
- Courtney Barnett is set to release her new album, Creature of Habit, on March 27th.
- Snail Mail's new album, Ricochet, is out March 27th.
- What's your favorite track on Don't Be Dumb?
- New Music Friday: Madison Beer - locket "An icon-in-waiting no more, she’s ready for her moment on ‘Locket’." @rollingstone.com
- New Music Friday: A$AP Rocky - Don't Be Dumb "A charismatic, playful return, but it's no slam dunk." @theguardian.com
- Check out our full list of this week's new releases.
- What are you listening to first tonight?
- New Music Friday: The Cribs - Selling a Vibe "Crammed with heart and hooks, Selling A Vibe is a welcome reminder that no one does it quite like The Cribs." @hotpress.com
- New Music Friday: Dry Cleaning - Secret Love "The South Londoners’ third album reaffirms their underlying ethos that the ordinary is worth mining for the extraordinary." @pastemagazine.bsky.social
- Check out our full list of this week's new releases.
- What are you listening to first tonight?
- Blackstar, David Bowie's final album, was released on this day 10 years ago.
- Bruno Mars is dropping his new album The Romantic on February 27.
- Robyn is set to release her new album, Sexistential, on March 27.
- Governors Ball 2026 Lineup
- A$AP Rocky shares video for new song “Punk Rocky”
- Who's dropping the Album of the Year in 2026?
