Dark-rock provocateur Brocarde teams up with Alice Cooper bassist Chuck Garric for a spellbinding new duet, fresh on the heels of her debut album Good Attendance At Sunday School.

Wisconsin Dance Theatre revives “A Hero’s Homecoming,” a post-WWII ballet blending professional dance, cinematic storytelling, and live 1940s jazz across three Wisconsin venues in July — with veteran partnerships and a special tie-in to the Wisconsin Maritime Museum’s USS Cobia.

Interscope/Lost Highway/Music Soup artist Vincent Mason drops “What You Want,” a plucky, acoustic-driven meditation on the relationship that just won’t quit — arriving as the ACM New Male Artist nominee holds two spots on the Billboard Hot 100.

Miranda Lambert’s 11th studio album Crisco arrives October 2 via MCA. The 12-track collection, produced with Jesse Frasure, features the Chris Stapleton duet “A Song To Sing,” the new single “Till The Going’s Gone,” and a Jim Croce cover.

Wisconsin Dance Theatre’s original patriotic ballet “A Hero’s Homecoming” returns this July with professional dancers, live 1940s jazz, and performances across Wisconsin honoring veterans and military families.

The Hails kick off 2026 with new single “Story of You and Me,” a Brandon Shoop-produced return to in-the-room songwriting, plus a headline Duckpond Tour hitting Brooklyn, LA, Miami and more this fall.

Texas metal four-piece GORE. return with a vengeance on new single “Lead Me to the Slaughter,” a scathing takedown of modern-day idolatry. The band is currently on tour with Kittie, with European dates locked in for Fall 2026.

Rising hard rock outfit Hollow Pact announce their signing to Sumerian Records with the release of new single and music video “Tear,” plus upcoming tours with Royale Lynn and Of Mice & Men.

Elizabeth Cook drops the VHS-inspired “Sunset Promenade,” a love letter to her closest friends and a sharp critique of media saturation, ahead of her Shooter Jennings-produced album Great Television, out August 14 via Thirty Tigers.

Portland’s masked nu-metal shock rockers Amerakin Overdose premiere their vital new track “Oxygen” and reveal a run of summer tour dates leading up to Rock Fest 2026.

Nicole Atkins returns with her seventh studio album “Drama,” her first all-new full-length in over six years. Produced by Wilco’s Pat Sansone and released via Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game Records imprint on Sun Records, the LP arrives September 18. Lead single “When the Night Falls” is streaming now.

Pittsburgh atmospheric metalcore outfit 156/Silence share “Proxy Idols,” the latest cut from their forthcoming Pure Noise Records debut ‘From A Distance,’ arriving September 4. Catch them at Inkcarceration, on tour with Chiodos, and on their fall US headliner.

GRAMMY winners Suzy Bogguss and Vince Gill are the latest additions to Dan Seals & Friends: The Last Duet, a posthumous tribute album celebrating the late country-pop crossover legend, arriving August 28 via Melody Place.

The late Dr. Pieter Noomen — minister, psychotherapist, and unlikely spiritual scribe — left behind a free online archive of conversations with a presence he called “Life Itself.” Here’s why his work is finding new audiences in 2026.

Endless Fires Fest returns to Syracuse’s Sharkeys Event Center August 15-16, 2026 with a final wave of bands including Boundaries, Bleeding Through, Emmure, and On Broken Wings joining previously announced headliners Three 6 Mafia, Circle Jerks, GWAR, and American Nightmare.

Italian power metallers Frozen Crown unveil “The One,” the Tolkien-inspired first single from their darker new album ‘The Legend of the Six Kings,’ out October 2 via Napalm Records.

San Antonio rockers Kingdom Collapse turn Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten” into a stadium-shaking anthem — the latest single from their debut album Survivor, out October 30 via Mascot Records.

Nashville cult-favorite Melaina Kol shares “Parallel,” a house-inspired, cello-laced curveball from the upcoming LP “Okay that’s a great idea because if I do that then,” out August 14, 2026 via Julia’s War Recordings.

Lorg, the solo project from SALES co-creator L Morgan, announces debut album ‘I Fell For Fantasy’ (out August 19), co-produced with Adam McDaniel, and shares glistening new single “Hall of Your Heart.”

A decade after his Golden Buzzer moment on America’s Got Talent, Sal “The Voice” Valentinetti steps into a new chapter with “Still On My Way,” his first original solo single via Keep Good Company Records.

New York City duo halfway up a jagged hill have signed to Brooklyn’s Vinegar Hill Sound Records and announced their debut album HUAJH, out September 10, 2026. Lead single “Obscure Sorrows” is streaming now.

Brad Kaylor & Mineral Bluff Revue follow their debut “My Last Name” with “Oh, Athena,” a Dylan Smith-penned bluegrass heartbreak tune arriving July 3rd on Huckleberry Records.

Ukrainian modern metal band IGNEA share the first single and video “Dreams of Lands Unseen” from their upcoming Napalm Records album ‘Monumental,’ out October 23, 2026.

Berlin-based alt-metal up-and-comers LUTHER have signed to Long Branch Records and dropped their genre-bending label debut single “Giving The People What They Want.”

Freak Nest Festival returns to San Francisco’s PublicWorks August 22-23 with a freshly expanded lineup featuring Dead Meadow, A-1, Falcons, Samson, Baghead, and long-awaited reunion sets from Coo Coo Birds, Down Dirty Shake, and The Orange Peels.