Tee Pee Records / United Sounds NYC sponsorerd Cosmic Sonic Rendezvous is back, taking place in Brooklyn, NY later this month on May 23-24. The two-day lineup leans heavy on doom and psychedelia, including The Obsessed, Dead Meadow, Eyehategod, Pentagram, and more (full lineup below).
The Colin Newman and Malka Spigel project Immersion has announced a new album called What Is Lost Will Returned, currently booked for a Sept. 4 release date on swim~.
It follows WTF?? (2025). Read an SPB interview with Newman, also of Wire.
Sentient Ruin Laboratories has a new release coming soon -- Diabolic Oath's Unholy Barbaric Hymns EP, out June 5 on LP, CD, MC, and digitally.
The new 4-song EP is 23 minutes in total, described by Toilet Ov Hell, who premiered “Emblazoned Upon Ebony Winds” (below) this week, …
Beastie Boy Mike D just shared a new solo single, "Switch Up," recorded in his home studio.
Playing a rare live show in Los Angeles yesterdday, Mike D also released the single to the world. It's the first new music from any Beastie Boys since album Hot Sauce (2011).
New York/Texas duo Diminishing has a new EP The Outcome, coming out at the end of the month on May 29 on Anti-Corp Music.
The group features Lane Oliver (ex-Yatsu, Feel Happiness) and David Brenner (Gridfailure) and previously released The Unnamable album in 2023, describing the sound as …
Michigan metalcore band Wounded Touch just released a new EP today: They Promised Eden (Vol. 1), a new 3-song affair with Smartpunk Records
You can watch 1/3 of the EP on video below, "A Weapon In God's Country," which features Jack Murray (156/Silence).
The band …
Cripple Bastards dropped "la tua foro sul marmo" today, the titled track from a new 6-song EP, out June 12 on F.O.A.D. Records from the Italian grindcore band.
Massachusetts rooted noise-rock band THE FRĒQS -- who added a special character we don't want to copy/paste so we'll stick with their stylized name format -- shared the single "Chainsawman" recently, the first song from their 2026 new album, No God on the Gold Coast, their debut full-length.
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Three-piece Desiccation has a new album of blackced dooom metal coming out on May 15 through Carbonized Record: Legatum Mortuorum.
The California based band last released Cold Dead Earth in 2022.
Punk band Harrison Gordon has joined Hopeless Records, sharing a new single called "Pretty" to introduce the news.
Currently on your with Arm's Length, The Callous Daoboys, and Super Sometimes, the band started as a solo COVID project and grew into a full band -- releasing The Yuppies Are …
Post-hardcore band Being As An Ocean just shread the new single "None But One" today (Equal Vision Records), precluding spring/summer tours with support from Lagrimas, Commoner, Vanna, lowheaven, and Upon Your Dead Body along the journey.
More dates will be added soon, the band says.
Spartan Records will release a new album from instrumental, post-rock group Man Mountain of Detroit, MI, out on July 24. It will release on LP and to be be titled Threads Of Another Life.
“While we didn’t start out with a central theme, it quickly became apparent as …
Post-rock quintet If These Trees Could Talk has a new album out on July 10. The band recently shared the first single, "Blurry Creatures" from the upcoming The Hidden Hand, out this summer on Metal Blade Records.
The group has been quiet for the better part of the …
Punkerton Records released Thanks For The Invite..., the debut album from pop-punk band Steelboy on May.
The Richmond, VA band formed in 2022-23 and play punk with pop hooks and a few ska rhythms along the way.
Gilt just shared a double single titled "Spit Out Into A Ditch..." / " ...On The Side Of The New Jersey Turnpike" from their forthcoming album I Saw Myself In The Black Screen, out June 26 via Smartpunk Records. The band draws from emo, nu-metal, metalcore and more for …
Free Cake Records returns, sharing the label's first releasei n 12 yeras: Healing Fire's The Narrow Gateway, out on cassette now.
It's the first EP from the aggressive hardcore band from New Jersey.
Straddling that evergray-ish line between punk, indie, and power pop, Onesie has sent a save the date for their new album, Way Thousand Bump To The Sky, coming out June 18 on Sell The Heart Records.
The band shared "Meetcha At Minnies (The Captain's Song)" earlier this year, …
Beth Seymour continues a busy 2026, with her Melbourne-based hardcore punk band La Famiglia releasing Alphabet Mafia, the band's first new album in two years.
"[It] comes after a hiatus while vocalist Beth Seymour came out as transgender," Seymour tells us. "This album reflects that experience, exploring themes …
Andy Blade (Eater) has released a new EP of songs co-written with Brian James (The Damned), a 3-song collection called Ain't That A Shame, out April 24 on Antenna Records (vinyl) and Cherry Red (digital).
The title track was written nearly 50 yeras ago, in 1978, by Andy …
As the band mentioned at the end of 2025, Middle-Aged Queers is back with a covers album, Greatest Hits, a collection of punked-up versions of songs that originally span a wider vareity of genres.
"Over the past four years, Middle-Aged Queers has concluded our recording sessions by covering …