So far, sombr has had a great 2025. The New York City native — real name Shane Boose, who attended the famous LaGuardia High School — is seeming to be the new “it” pop boy. His vibe is kinda like if Shawn Mendes and Matty Healy had a younger brother that listened to Hozier and the Beach Boys. He got his first Top 40 hit with last year’s “back to friends,” then reached a new chart peak of #25 with this year’s “undressed.” Today, he’s got another one called “12 To 12.”
The Barcelona punk band Enemic Interior have been releasing one EP per year since 2022. Col·lecció, their new album out today on the Mendeku Diskak label, combines those releases into a career-so-far-spanning comp, bracketed by a pair of new songs, “Mai més” and “Fugir Endavant.” Taken together, these tracks present Enemic Interior as one of the most formidable punk bands in the world, unafraid to make their burly, ferocious songs remarkably catchy when the situation calls for it. With their shout-along vocals, hulking power-chord riffs, and foot-to-the-floor momentum, these songs are like if the big war trucks in Fury Road could be transmuted into anthems. Listen below.
Drake and Central Cee opened the final night of Drake’s recent Wireless Festival residency in London by performing an unknown new song. On a livestream last night, Drake ushered that track into the world. “Which One” blends together Drake’s dancehall influence and the brisk, banging, globetrotting club music heard on projects like More Life.
Stephen Colbert’s Late Show may be going away, but for one more school year it’ll be beaming celebrity chats and music performances into your home. The latest of those comes from Alex G, who played “Miracles” on the show back in 2022. With RCA debut Headlights out now, it was time for a return to the Ed Sullivan Theater for a run through “Afterlife,” the album’s lovely lead single and a somewhat poignant choice of song for a TV show that’s going off the air. Watch below.
Last year Rich Amiri released War Ready, which we called his best album yet. Now, the Boston rapper is back with “Paranoid,” his first new material since that.
In May, Maren Morris released her latest album Dreamsicle. The pop-country artist is sharing the deluxe version next week, but today we get a preview with the simultaneously scathing and encouraging tune “Be A Bitch.”
Recently Mariah Carey has been teasing new music on social media, dropping hints at “MC16” as well as previews of a song called “Sugar Sweet.” Now the news is official: Earlier this week the pop icon confirmed that her 16th studio album Here For It All arrives in September, and a new single “Sugar Sweet” is out today.
It’s Tame time. “End Of Summer,” the first Tame Impala single for new label home Columbia Records, is out now. The seven-minute track, previewed by Kevin Parker last month in a Barcelona DJ set, is a headfirst dive into dance music. Yet the music is a subtly percolating slow-build — the kind of song that sneaks up on you, not bashes you over the head. Even when things really get going near the end, it’s a different kind of rush than we’re used to hearing from Tame Impala. “Let It Happen” feels decidedly less clubby by comparison.
TOPS’ songs usually have a groove to them, but this new one “Annihilation” is groovy as hell. It’s the latest preview of their new album Bury The Key, following “ICU2,” “Chlorine,” and “Falling On My Sword,” and it’s only magnifying the anticipation.
Last month, John Maus announced Later Than You Think, his first new music since 2018’s Addendum. The experimental-pop musician has released “I Hate Antichrist” and “Because We Built It,” and today he’s back with “Came & Got.”