Alex G | photo by Chris Maggio, courtesy of the artist
PRESS PLAY: New Albums out July 18th
Get fired up with this week’s new releases…
Like sand through the hourglass, these are the latest albums to grace your ears in 2025.
Philly favorite Alex G continues to polish his bedroom-pop sound on Headlights; his 10th album presents an idiosyncratic take on Americana. In the aftermath of a personal upheaval, Jade Bird looks to the sunny surroundings of Los Angeles and finds inner resilience on Who Wants to Talk About Love?. Lord Huron’s lore-heavy, Lynchian odyssey enters its next chapter on The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1, whose titular contraption determines the fate of anyone who dares drop in a quarter. Inspired by a residency in Greece, Laura Jane Grace invites family and new friends to contribute to Adventure Club, the fourth solo album from the Against Me! singer.
For nearly a decade, Jamie Lidell’s focus has been his acclaimed Hanging Out with Audiophiles podcast; the English-born, Nashville-based singer returns to music performance with the searching, piano-driven Places of Unknowing. On the heels of a creatively productive tour behind her previous album, Bay Area artist Madeline Kenney’s Kiss from the Balcony is a full-on collaboration with her supporting players Ben Sloan and Stephen Patota. While a proper reunion remains up in the air for elusive New Jersey combo Forth Wanderers, The Longer This Goes On is a promising and welcome return. Announced mere days before Sly Stone’s passing, The First Family: Live at the Winchester Cathedral 1967 captures the Family Stone in one of its earliest public performances.
Listen for spotlights on new records like these (and more) every week on the XPN Morning Show and Indie Rock Hit Parade.
PRESS PLAY on these new releases
Alex G – Headlights
CHECK OUT: “Afterlife”
“June Guitar”
Jade Bird – Who Wants to Talk About Love?
CHECK OUT: “Nobody”
“Dreams”
Lord Huron – The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1
CHECK OUT: “Nothing I Need”
“Who Laughs Last (feat. Kristen Stewart)”
Laura Jane Grace in the Trauma Tropes – Adventure Club
CHECK OUT: “Mine Me Mine”
“Active Trauma”
Jamie Lidell – Places of Unknowing
CHECK OUT: “How Do I Land”
“Capture the Moon”
Madeline Kenney – Kiss from the Balcony
CHECK OUT: “Scoop”
“Semitones”
Forth Wanderers – The Longer This Goes On
CHECK OUT: “7 Months”
“Bluff”
Sly & the Family Stone – The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967
CHECK OUT: “I Gotta Go Now (Up on the Floor)/Funky Broadway”
“I Can’t Turn You Loose”
The PRESS PLAY-list
FURTHER LISTENING
Alex Warren – You’ll Be Alright, Kid, Coral Grief – Air Between Us, Dead Tooth – Dead Tooth, Disiniblud – Disiniblud, Dream, Ivory – When You Come Back I Have So Much to Tell You, Groceries! – Human Extinctions, Hamid Al-Saadi – Maqam Al-Iraq, Håvard Volden – Small Lives, JG Shadid – The Art of Speaking Softly, Jonathan Richman – Only Frozen Sky Anyway, Messer – Cuts EP, Natalie Bergman – My Home is Not in This World, NODEGA – Rot in Helvetica, Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (20th Anniversary Edition), Styx – Circling from Above, Trisha Yearwood – The Mirror, Vines – I’ll Be Here, We Are Scientists – Qualifying Miles, Zac Farro – Operator