Country icon Lee Greenwood is bringing back Soldier Valley Spirits — an award-winning bourbon, whiskey, and vodka collection — just in time for America’s 250th birthday, with proceeds supporting veteran and first-responder charities.

Goblin metal icons Nekrogoblikon celebrate 20 years with a Fall 2026 U.S. headline tour featuring Aborted, Signs of the Swarm, and Party Cannon. The trek runs October 16 through November 15, with their new EP The Boiling Sea out now.

Gippsland metalcore breakouts Ocean Sleeper announce their sophomore album “Peace When I’m Dead,” out August 21 via BMG Australia/Rise Records, and unleash the title track and video ahead of a global 82-show run.

UK alt-rock breakouts unpeople announce their debut album “we are unpeople,” due October 9 on SharpTone Records, and share the brand-new single “friends” alongside a massive summer festival run.

TAKARA returns with “Not Your God,” a haunting alt-R&B meditation on admiration, projection, and the messy humanity behind the pedestal — the third preview of her forthcoming third album.

Milwaukee songwriter, producer, and Silver City Studios co-owner Josh Evert unveils “Sound of Machines,” the first single from his forthcoming album Photogenic Memory, due this fall.

Former NFL wide receiver turned viral singer-songwriter Blake Proehl officially signs with MCA, capping a milestone CMA Fest week with the release of his new song “She Got It.”

10x CMA Musician of the Year Mac McAnally lands the June cover of The Nashville Musician as he preps a summer leading the Coral Reefer Band on the Keep The Party Going tour, plus his own headlining All The Way Around dates and Margaritas & Memories shows with Scotty Emerick.

MCA Presents: Live From Skydeck returned to downtown Nashville for two capacity-crowd days, with Little Big Town previewing their August 28 album “It’s A Dying Art,” Wyatt Flores teasing “Scared of Heights,” and Lamont Landers scoring a surprise Grand Ole Opry invitation from Questlove.

Dazzling Killmen and Point Line Plane team up for a three-city run capped by a headlining set at Caterwaul Fest, while Squid Pisser announce back-to-back cross-country tours: the Internal Violence Tour (June–July) and Tumors Across America (August–September).

Ukrainian modern metal quartet IGNEA return with ‘Monumental,’ a nine-track meditation on nostalgia, Cold War space dreams, and crumbling modernist architecture. Out October 23 via Napalm Records.

SANDBOX, Australia’s fast-rising hard techno brand, is launching its first national festival series this September, hitting Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth with a lineup that includes JOVVYN, ZAPRAVKA and BEAUZ.

SoCal supergroup A-100s — featuring Matt Hensley (Flogging Molly) and Sean Wheeler (Throw Rag) — release the music video for “Rude and Lovely,” the title track from their debut LP out July 10, 2026 via Pirates Press Records. Catch them at Supernova International Ska Festival in Hampton, VA this September.

Nashville trio Just Jayne shrug off an ex on their playfully unbothered new anthem “What’s His Name?”, out now via The Core Records.