Philadelphia cult favorites Nyxy Nyx are excited to share the newest preview of their first correct studio file, Cult Classics Vol. 1, due out September 12, 2025, by way of Julia’s Warfare Recordings. Out right this moment is “Ashtray,” an intensely noisy monitor that insulates contemplative lyricism in layers of fuzzed-out guitars. The virtually six-minute-long music breaks down right into a cacophony of noise, earlier than melting into an interlude of silence, a hurricane of riffs, after which a relaxing array of instrumentals.
After greater than a decade away, beloved punk trio Good Luck returns with “Into the Void,” the primary single from their forthcoming album Huge Goals, Mister, out October 17 by way of Lauren Data and Specialist Topic within the UK. “Into the Void” is about displaying up for a pal in want, even if you’re undecided how. “It’s a music about not realizing tips on how to consolation somebody who’s going by it, apart from to say, let’s hold doing issues and being right here,” explains vocalist/guitarist Ginger Alford. “But in addition it’s about driving throughout the nation and ingesting espresso, and is filled with numerous foolish puns. I had performed this music solo and with people earlier than, nevertheless it didn’t actually click on till we acquired again collectively and all people added their magic.”
Huge Goals, Mister is the sound of a band rediscovering its pleasure. Made purely for the love of enjoying collectively once more, the album is equal components highly-concentrated effort, pressure-free creativity and the thirst to settle unfinished enterprise after the band stopped making music collectively in 2012.
In 2023, low-key texts began popping up within the band’s group chat, and plans had been made to hang around at a borrowed apply house in Cleveland simply to see if making music collectively nonetheless felt good. The key reunion was surprisingly snug and all the pieces clicked again into place. After two weekends of jamming, a number of unfastened concepts developed into songs and had been recorded with fellow noodlepunk Joe Reinhart (Hop Alongside, Joyce Manor, Trendy Baseball), because the backyard continued to develop round them. Half a yr handed, and after a number of extra weekend-long bursts of songwriting, the band returned to Reinhart to complete what is going to grow to be their (traditional) third file – Huge Goals, Mister. Good Luck is again, similar to that.
“We all the time felt like we would write music collectively once more,” the band shares. “And as soon as we did, these songs felt precisely like what we’d write.”
“Whereas [previous solo album] Manu largely improvised on the story of my Colombian mom, evoking the feel and really feel of the Andes, I needed La Marea to talk to the story of my father and people like him who emigrated from Cuba to the US from 1959-1960, ceaselessly inhabiting the reminiscence of a homeland that not existed,” Bryan Senti explains.
That is the backdrop for critically acclaimed composer Bryan Senti‘s upcoming album La Marea, introduced right this moment for an October tenth launch by way of The state51 Conspiracy.
Weaving ambient digital and baroque music influences with the world of his earlier album Manu, Bryan Senti’s observe up album La Mareais a contemporary and epic string orchestra cycle that takes us on a mediative nautical journey. Out right this moment is the brand new monitor “Saloma (Tierra en Movimiento),” that includes Grammy award profitable baritone and Andrea Bocelli collaborator Edward Parks, who was a classmate of Senti’s at The Yale College of Music. The monitor was recorded in ATMOS, with every half recorded individually after which positioned in ATMOS to create a very distinct immersive expertise.
When Senti got here round to this mission, it was clear that immigration was the subject material, and he felt that the precise matter of Latino immigration might sooner or later be the topic of an opera. His father himself was an opera singer, and a minister, so his personal story felt operatic. This aria turned a chance to tie all of this collectively, and Parks was the pure match with the private connection.
“The picture that repeatedly got here to thoughts was that of the proverbial raft, which many used to to migrate to the US, adrift at sea,” Senti describes. “I can think about the wrestle of anchoring one’s identification to the reminiscence of Cuba whereas desperately hoping to search out refuge and renewed objective in a brand new nation. There’s a singular mixture of grief and religion that brings somebody to give up to the concept of leaving their nation. It’s the story of migration and transformation.”
As certainly one of Eire’s most enjoyable digital artists, Elaine Mai returns with Folks Pleaser (Elaine Mai Remix) out on Aug twenty ninth. A daring reimagining of the fan-favourite monitor from indie trailblazers Soda Blonde. Arriving forward of Mai’s hotly anticipated sophomore album For Us, out September twenty sixth, the remix gives a hanging glimpse into her evolving sonic world.
The collaboration between Mai and Soda Blonde’s Faye O’Rourke was sparked throughout a particular reside studio session on RTÉ 2FM, the place the pair carried out Intention, the newest single from For Us. Since its launch, Intention has made waves throughout Irish radio, reaching No. 6 on the Irish Radio Breakers Chart and racking up over two million impressions.
Initially featured on Soda Blonde’s Folks Pleaser EP—which debuted at No. 2 on the Irish Impartial Album Charts—the unique model of Folks Pleaser has quick grow to be a fan favorite. In July, the band celebrated the EP’s arrival on crimson crimson vinyl with a sold-out present at Dublin’s Button Manufacturing facility. Sizzling Press praised the night time as “glistening and infinitely memorable”, applauding the band’s “inimitable charisma and hypnotising performances.”
This remix arrives amid a wave of momentum for each artists. Elaine Mai will headline the Button Manufacturing facility on October twenty fifth, with tickets accessible now by way of Eventbrite. In the meantime, Soda Blonde’s star continues to rise, with their music just lately shared by legendary sport designer Hideo Kojima to over 4 million Instagram followers. Earlier assist from BBC Radio 6 Music, RTÉ 2FM, and At present FM, alongside editorial playlisting throughout New Music Friday UK & IE, Contemporary Finds, and Various Eire, displays their rising worldwide attain.
Your favourite Indianapolis-based “faux emo” band, Summerbruise, simply put out a model new single, “Man! I Really feel Like A Dumbass!” This monitor is a part of their new full-length file, Infinity Guise, popping out September nineteenth by way of SideOneDummy Data. With the information, in addition they simply introduced a handful of reveals this Fall as a part of the Pretend Emo Combat Evening Tour with mates pricey Maryanne and MooseCreek Park. Tickets shall be on-sale this Friday, August twenty second at 11AM EST.
Kansas Metropolis duo Katy Guillen & The Drive – led by music + life companions Katy Guillen (vocals/guitar) and Stephanie Williams (drums) – prides itself on fostering empowered areas for ladies in music each onstage and off, and their performances showcase the group’s signature all-female powerhouse formation, technical prowess, and electrifying chemistry. This core worth closely influenced the band’s second full-length effort Make That Sound, produced by Megan McCormick (Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah), due October 17, 2025 by way of Are and Be Recordings.
“Sufficient Lord” by Bronze Nazareth and Apollo Brown is a strong reflection on society’s turbulence, delivered with the urgency of frontline reporting.
Bronze weaves collectively a litany of world and private struggles, channeling the voice of a street-level newscaster confronting the burden of the world. His uncooked, unflinching lyricism rides over Apollo Brown’s haunting manufacturing, constructed on a hypnotic guitar riff and hovering choral textures.
The result’s a traditional, hard-hitting anthem that captures each the chaos of our instances and the relentless resilience of these enduring it.
Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist Patrick Shiroishi (The Armed, Fuubutsushi) shares his new single, “Mountains that Take Wing,” forward of his fourth solo album, Forgetting Is Violent, out September 19 by way of American Goals. A part of the album’s opening suite, the monitor options Shiroishi’s shut collaborators Gemma Thompson (Savages) and Aaron Turner (Sumac), who launch a wall of dual-guitar suggestions on the outset. It settles right into a hushed drift earlier than progressively erupting right into a transcendent cacophony of coruscating guitars, swirling saxophone, layered vocal harmonies, and flickering electronics.
Describing the piece, Patrick explains: “It’s crammed with lament, but in addition serves as a reminder that it’s okay to really feel this manner, that we’re not alone in that feeling… that regardless that there are terrible folks at work in these current instances, collectively & in neighborhood, we will & should struggle again – similar to how Gemma & Aaron assist carry me up on this music, our collective hope in a greater place can carry us up. that in instances the place issues appear inconceivable, mountains can nonetheless take flight.”
Following lead single “There is no such thing as a second in my life through which this isn’t occurring,” which featured otay::onii, “Mountains that take to the air” offers the second and ultimate preview of Shiroishi’s first album to characteristic visitor collaborators—one the place his roots in heavy music enter into nearer dialogue with free improvisation than ever earlier than. Whether or not tender or raucous, spacious or dense, Shiroishi brings the fireplace; his collaborators, the ice.
The place his previous releases on American Goals reckoned with racism towards Japanese Individuals or introduced Shiroishi’s saxophone as heard in a parking storage, Forgetting is Violent considers racism as an entire, historic and ongoing, with the urgency it deserves. “Stemming again to my ancestors, and the stolen land that we reside on—there’s simply a lot of this racism that’s so alive and properly, and so obvious, and continues to be obvious in our nation and all over the world,” Shiroishi says. “One thing that can not be forgotten.”
Environment, the long-lasting hip-hop duo consisting of Slug and Ant, have introduced their upcoming album Jestures, set for launch on September nineteenth by way of Rhymesayers Leisure. At present, they’ve shared two new singles, “Craving,” that includes Yoni Wolf of WHY?, and “Daley.” The one, “Craving”, is accompanied by a new music video directed by Proof, showcasing Slug amid the city backdrop of Minneapolis, MN and leans right into a crackling, soulful dimension of the duo’s sound. On the monitor, Slug shares tales involving themes of social experiences and private identification, grappling with the addictive nature of the human want for exterior validation.
Alongside the album announcement, Environment launched singles and accompanying movies for “Actually” and “Velour.” The video for “Actually,” directed by Melby, options Slug performing a sequence of daredevil stunts, touchdown someplace between John Wick, The Rehearsal, and Jackass. In the meantime, the “Velour” video, shot and edited by ZooDeVille, combines dreamlike melodies with lighthearted lyrics to embody euphoric love in an on a regular basis setting.
Montclair, NJ-based singer/songwriter Lily Vakili has introduced a particular efficiency at Montclair Story Salon on September 18, 2025, as she drops the brand new single, “Maintain On They Say,” from her forthcoming album, Oceans of Kansas. Releasing October 17, 2025, Oceans of Kansas is Vakili’s most intimate, collaborative, and expansive work but: A group formed by lived expertise, creative threat, and stressed curiosity. It’s music born not of picture or pretense, however of will – a file that embraces improvisation, vulnerability, and the uncooked pleasure of creation.
The songs on Oceans of Kansas are, as Vakili calls them, her “orphan songs”: Melodies she couldn’t let go of, lyrics that stayed together with her lengthy after others pale. “For no matter cause, these songs didn’t stick earlier than, however I’d not quit on them as a result of I do know they’re compelling,” she shares. The theme of not realizing if or when to let go was additionally the catalyst for “Maintain On They Say,” written in regards to the realization that she’d drifted aside from an previous pal.
“After I consider that point, it appears we had been in a sort of stasis throughout our visits, neither previously nor absolutely within the current. I might nonetheless see her goals and my goals, however I didn’t know if certainly one of us, or each of us, would maintain on,” Vakili remembers, including, “Chris St. Hilaire’s piano creates an ideal setting for this music’s lyrics, heat and elegiac.”
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