9 October 2026
David Byrne and composer Daniel Pemberton today released ‘Let Me Sell You a Dream,’ the original song they wrote for MUSK, Academy Award®-winning director Alex Gibney‘s documentary about Elon Musk. The song is out now on Matador Records. MUSK, from Bleecker Street, opens in New York and Los Angeles tomorrow, October 9, and nationwide October 16th. “It would be too easy and probably not as much fun to overtly criticize Musk,”…
9 October 2026
South Sudanese-Australian innovator Skin On Skin is back with ‘Someone Like You‘, his first release since 2025’s Home Is True mixtape and the final piece he completed for something very special arriving soon. The track has been road-tested to rapturous responses worldwide in his full-throttle DJ sets, most memorably when Skin On Skin closed the main stage at Dekmantel in Amsterdam, a city he considers his second home. From there, it travelled…
8 October 2026
Hackney rapper, poet and producer John Glacier is, at this point, one of London’s most diverse musical voices. Traversing rap, electronic music, post-punk, ambient and much more, her 2025 debut album Like A Ribbon defined Glacier as an artist within her own lane; a lane where she has the freedom to experiment creatively through her singular, almost stream-of-consciousness delivery. The album has since catapulted Glacier into a new stratosphere, both within music and beyond….
7 October 2026
Ex:Re, the cult-classic alt-pop project of Elena Tonra (of beloved London indie-folk band Daughter), returns with a new album entitled Save As on October 30. She shares a new single from the record entitled ‘Sleep‘, alongside a live session video taped in the London 4AD studio by Cuan Roche, watch here. Tonra remembers exactly where she was when she wrote ‘Sleep’ – and just how she was feeling. She was alone in Paris, where she…
7 October 2026
Renowned for her powerhouse vocals, raw vulnerability and evocative storytelling, multi-award-winning artist Carla Geneve returns with a new double single, ‘Guard Dog / Move Dirt Around’, out today. Written around 2021, the two songs come from a time when Geneve was, in her words, “angry and sad and scared.” With little to lean on beyond the people she loved and her ability to laugh at things, she turned to humour as a shield. The…
7 October 2026
La Force, the captivating solo project of Ariel Engle, unveils a brand-new song — her first new material since 2024. ‘Darth Vapor,’ a stand-alone single available now across all digital streaming platforms, offers a thrilling sneak peek of a full-length album coming in 2027. Ariel has been busy touring with Patrick Watson in support of his recent release, Uh Oh, performing their duet ‘The Lonely Lights’ on the road. As a member…
5 October 2026
The first single from Tiga’s acclaimed HOTLIFE LP, ‘IAMWHATIAM’ was and is a war cry, a strident demand for Absolute Brain Freedom. Now, that call for total liberation comes in three new interpretations from DJ Hell, Tensal and The Dare, arriving as a full remix EP out now on Turbo Recordings x Secret City Records, with vinyl preorders live via Secret City Records. “Remix packages are my favourite thing to curate,” says Tiga. “It’s a…
2 October 2026
Fontaines D.C. (Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll) release new single ‘Tongue’ – the second song from the band’s forthcoming album Dopamine Chamber (released 16th October) showcases another side of Dopamine Chamber’s expansive sound, and is accompanied by a John Angus Stewart-directed video, shot in New York City. “We continued where Romance left off, leaving the live-band elements until they were really needed,” says Conor…
2 October 2026
Blackhaine announces details of his debut album Saints in the Wethouse, which will be released on 13th November via XL Recordings. ‘Consumer’ – the first single from the album – is released today with an accompanying video directed by Elena Isolini and featuring Blackhaine as Creative Director. Blackhaine will premiere Saints In The Wethouse live this weekend at his highly-anticipated headline appearance at Warsaw’s Unsound Festival (4th October). Blackhaine’s debut LP is a visceral embodiment…
1 October 2026
Odette’s third album Blink is set for release on Friday 6th November and today, she shares the final preview of the project with new single ‘Don’t’, accompanied by a video, watch here. With perspective and self assessment at the heart of her songwriting, for Odette, ‘Don’t’ is another production that transmutes her immense overwhelm into something sonically healing. Like the nature of the relationship being sung about, the track shifts through crescendoing strings, keys and…
30 September 2026
SOAK – Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson – has announced a new record decembers, out December 4, 2026. Today, they share the title track alongside a visualiser, watch here. On decembers, we travel with SOAK on the road through America, walk the frost-glistened paths of Dublin at night, search for a meteor in Portugal, and return home to Derry, Ireland. Everywhere, here is an artist evolving, exploring, releasing themselves, coming undone,…
30 September 2026
On March 1 2025, Kim Deal hosted a once-in-a-lifetime sold-out performance at London’s historic Barbican, playing special orchestrated renditions of songs from her acclaimed debut solo album Nobody Loves You More, followed by tracks from The Breeders’ back catalog and earlier solo work. The evening, culminating with a heartfelt standing ovation, was documented in full, to be released as a live record entitled Live at the Barbican on 13 November — arriving almost two years after Nobody Loves You…
30 September 2026
Bandcamp Friday is back this Friday, October 2nd (at 5pm AEST for 24hrs – check your local timezone). Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2026 on November 6th, and December 4th. As always is it Bandcamp Friday? has the details. On the first Friday of the month since March 2020, Bandcamp waived their revenue share to help support artists. Thanks for your continued support of independent music and the people who…
28 September 2026
Gilla Band release their fourth album Pugnello, out now. Their latest offering was recorded between 2022-2026 across three studios, Hellfire, Yellow Door Music Studio, & Sonic Studios in Dublin, and produced by Gilla Band and recorded and mixed by Daniel Fox. The album is available on Deluxe Gatefold LP with glued in lyric booklet + pearl colour vinyl + indie colour LP, and Standard LP & CD. Gilla Band never know where they’re…
25 September 2026
Wednesday 11th November 2026 will mark the 30th anniversary of The Prodigy’s ‘Breathe’. A track so iconic, it changed the landscape of British music forever. XL Recordings announces a 30th anniversary 12″ vinyl edition of The Prodigy’s ‘Breathe’, bringing together the original track, an instrumental version, and the highly sought-after remixes by The Glitch Mob and Mefjus & Camo & Krooked. Available to pre-order now, the record will be released…
25 September 2026
Australian songwriter Julia Jacklin releases her highly anticipated new studio album The Gem, out now. Earlier this week, Jacklin shared one final single ‘If I Had The Hand Of God’, following a global First Play on triple j Drive. Written about a surreal trip to Nashville, the song is a meditation on the life of a touring musician and the importance (or unimportance) of legacy. Watch the accompanying video here. The Gem was produced by…
25 September 2026
Blawan (aka Jamie Roberts) today digitally releases a new two-track EP, Gi Mi Keys Back / Auto Fake. A limited 12″ of the EP is available to pre-order now, landing 13 November. A year on from SickElixir, Blawan is back to remind us he’s one of British electronic music’s most singular voices. Since dropping SickElixir on XL Recordings on 10 October 2025, Blawan has not stopped. He’s toured across the world, playing at the best…
24 September 2026
‘Where the Goth Girls At?’ is the striking third single from Queens of the Stone Age’s ninth studio album, Perfecth. The track pairs raw, minimalist riffs with an explosive chorus, amplified by rich string and horn arrangements. Drawing on inspiration and nostalgia from Josh Homme’s youth in a Palm Desert suburb, the song centers on themes of teenage love and the desire to impress others. About the song, Homme says, “Watching…
24 September 2026
Mike Hadreas (Perfume Genius) and choreographer Kate Wallich have reunited for a new evening-length music and dance work, The Lesson, commissioned by Seattle Theatre Group. Blending Perfume Genius’ emotionally charged experimental pop with Wallich’s distinctive choreographic language, The Lesson is a raw, live music and dance performance that draws inspiration from The Piano Teacher, the notorious novel by Elfriede Jelinek that was later adapted into Michael Haneke’s celebrated film. They will premiere The Lesson at REDCAT in…
24 September 2026
DJ Python announces his return to XL Recordings with new EP to accomplish many things, out Friday 23 October. The five-track EP is the follow-up to 2025’s i was put on this earth (“a triumph of gentle reverie and quiet upheaval” – Pitchfork). The first track, ‘Forgetful Angel’, featuring Birmingham rapper Tony Bontana, is out now alongside a music video directed by Vladyslav and conceptualised together with DJ Python. Dreamy yet…
24 September 2026
Earlier this month, 300SkullsAndCounting and Jenny Sparks announced their signing to XL Recordings with the single and music video ‘The Ballad of St Nick’s Park‘ (“Absurdist screamo meets bassline house, lairy rap and seagull noises” – The Guardian). Now – the unlikely collaborative duo return to surprise-drop their debut album THIS IS SPA TOWN! digitally. Across nine tracks, 300SkullsAndCounting’s screamo vocals, 8-bit roots and baroque toy-keyboard melodies collide with Jenny Sparks’ bouncy, bassline-driven production – an infectious sound that sits…
23 September 2026
Swedish artist Murex shares ‘Puddle’, the final track to be unveiled from her debut album Inventio, out this Friday 25th September. It premiered earlier today on Matt Wilkinson’s Apple Music 1 Show. ‘Puddle’ is where Murex begins to find the light, like a glimmer on a pool of rainwater, made sonic by the whorling clarinets of Pelle Westlin and Isak Hedtjärn. “Found myself a puddle to pour into… I’m leaking into…
18 September 2026
Fontaines D.C. – Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll – today announce the full tracklist for their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, released 16th October. Produced by James Ford, Dopamine Chamber features the first guest artist on a Fontaines D.C. album – ROSALÍA on ‘Where Is Gone?’. Dopamine Chamber is the follow-up to 2024’s UK platinum-certified Romance – and the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records and into their most…
18 September 2026
Norwegian musician, artist and novelist Jenny Hval has released Iris Silver Mist (Remixes) following her latest album, Iris Silver Mist, released in May last year. The EP features two reworks of ‘The Artist is Absent’ by Felicia Atkinson and Julia Holter & Tashi Wada. Felicia Atkinson describes the first remix as “the music as a cut up for ghosts and revelations”. On the second, Julia Holter and Tashi Wanda explain, “We are longtime fans of Jenny’s music. With The artist…
17 September 2026
David Byrne, the musician, performer, writer, multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of Talking Heads, releases a deluxe digital edition of his latest album Who Is The Sky?. The deluxe, which commemorates the one year anniversary of the release, features four bonus tracks, including new single ‘My Madness‘. The track is a buoyant orchestral pop song that suggests a meeting with one’s own personality in playful Byrne-sian fashion. This Saturday at the iconic Forest…
17 September 2026
OR is the new musical project from John Talabot, the Catalan producer, electronic musician, and DJ residing in Barcelona. Today, he announces his forthcoming debut album under the OR moniker, and his first new music in over a decade — Music for Empty Stadiums, out October 30 via AD 93. The record exhibits a more left-field side of Talabot’s repertoire, featuring a tangle of cartwheeling synth hooks bursting with colour and looping electronics. Music…
16 September 2026
Rough Trade Records are excited to announce the debut solo album by one of Ireland’s most influential and revered vocalists, Lankum and ØXN’s Radie Peat. With unique vision, staggering vocal range and a wry sense of knowing, Peat is celebrated for her powerful contralto voice, technical vocal authority, and emotional depth. She distills the essence of folk music, breathing life into old songs and carrying them forward with new meaning, both sustaining…
16 September 2026
To celebrate the release of her new album The Gem, Julia Jacklin returns to the place that gave the record its name for three very special, intimate shows. Recorded above the pub in Collingwood, The Gem will be released on September 25th. That weekend, Sat 26th & Sun 27th, Julia will take over The Gem for three intimate performances. Joined by her band – Jacob Diamond, Jennifer Aslett, Jess Ellwood and Rob…
16 September 2026
Philadelphia based art-folk duo @ (pronounced ‘at’) share a new single entitled ‘Bird’, taken from their debut 4AD album Autosmile, out on Friday 16 October. The band have also announced a new London headline show for June 2027 alongside a North American headline tour. ‘Bird’ is ushered in by an eerie chromatic trance of acoustic guitar and cinematic clarinet passages, juxtaposed by a gorgeously uplifting choral harmony; a portrayal of battling wills. The band says: “This…
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