The ambitious young Michigan-founded Band To Watch Racing Mount Pleasant impressed a lot of us with their self-titled album this year, their second overall and first since changing their name from Kingfisher. Personally, I’m eager to hear more songs from the emo/post-rock combo, and fortunately it sounds like new music is practically falling out of them. Closing out their tour at Ann Arbor’s Power Center for the Performing Arts, RMP debuted a new song that, per the unofficial Instagram fan account @rmpupdates, “was literally written in the green room before the show,” a slow-burn mood piece with the requisite sax action. Seems like they’re on to something…

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Porridge Radio have officially signed off. Back in January, shortly after the release of final album Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, the fiery, beloved London indie band announced their impending breakup and one last EP, February’s Machine Starts To Sing. The rest of 2025 has been one big farewell, one that culminated in the one-time Band To Watch‘s final show Sunday night in Glasgow.

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Atlanta rap star 21 Savage started 2024 with the release of his impressive album american dream. He’ll end 2025 with the release of another LP, which is coming out with minimal advance notice. Today, Savage posted a cryptic trailer for a new LP called What Happened To The Streets?, and that record will be out in just a few days.

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Perhaps you’ve head the news that Shirley Manson does not want beach balls at Garbage shows or anywhere near her ever. In a moment that’s now gone viral from the band’s set at Melbourne’s Good Things festival last week, Manson angrily cussed out a man in the audience for throwing around a beach ball in what we can only assume was a rather distracting manner. Manson later clarified on Threads: “I joined a band because I HATED THE FUCKING BEACH. I joined a band because I wanted to listen to Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure and be dark and beautiful.”

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In addition to putting out his own great new album Baby over the summer, Dijon also worked on two Grammy-nominated albums in 2025: Justin Bieber’s Swag and Bon Iver’s SABLE, fABLE. People are digging the Dijon sound, but it takes a lot of people to replicate that sound live! Dijon made his SNL debut last night as musical guest, and as he teased ahead of the episode, his performance featured a massive band with some familiar faces.

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Who are the Crying Nudes? It’s complicated. The band has been releasing music since 2023, and we know it’s a side project of Dean Blunt’s. Wikipedia says it’s him and Fine Glindvad, the Copenhagen musician who released a bunch of beautiful dream-pop tunes this year. Reddit threads claim British producer Vegyn is also in the…

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Reid is a 19-year-old UK electronic artist with only a few songs under his belt, but they’re real bangers. “pull up” is a hot, hazy earworm; “addict” is a twitchy, infectious club anthem. He’s got the sultry voice of 2hollis, the ecstatic beats of fakemink, and the clubby atmosphere of Sipper. Now he’s back with…

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Kevin Basko, the prolific Philly musician who records as Rubber Band Gun, is teaming up with Cincinnati’s own Joey Joesph (not, not Joseph) for a whole album of collaborative tracks. It’s called ROAM BABY ROAM, and although we don’t yet know when it will see release, we do get to hear the lead single on…

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Since 2006, the singular Toronto rock ‘n’ roll institution Fucked Up have been releasing a series of long, sprawling, ambitious records named after years of the Chinese Zodiac calendar. Over the next year, they will finally complete that project, releasing the three final Zodiac records as an ongoing series that’ll eventually make up a five-LP…

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The London underground rapper Jawnino has an understated magnetism, and he’s drawn to refracted, club-adjacent beats that fit his voice beautifully. Jawnino’s True Panther debut 40 came out last year, and he’s one of our favorite new artists of 2025. Now, he’s released a new collaborative project with the New York production collective Surf Gang.…

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