Working with producer Angel Marcloid of Fire-Toolz on new album 'Bugland', No Joy build out their sound in fascinating ways

Plus a brutal and oddly calming electronic soundtrack for society’s future collapse

Mixmag's guide to the best tracks of the year 2025 so far

Sea Lemon plays Tractor Tavern with Tomo Nakayama and Nathan Reed Fri Aug 8, 8 pm, 21+.

Jasamine White-Gluz shares how tracks by Underworld, Deerhunter, Type O Negative, and more also happen to have incubated her wildly experimental new album Bugland.

N.Y.C. singer-songwriter Grumpy takes The FADER's Opener questionnaire and reveals her favorite meme, movie, and recent shoe purchase.

All the biggest releases on our radar

Our weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeat

Earlier this year Lawn returned with the Parquet Courts-esque earworm “Sports Gun,” and now the New Orleans duo is announcing their new album God Made The Highway. “Davie” is their latest offering.

Disiniblud composers Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith on the mutual trust they needed to make their new album and their “brain-rotted, bimbo wisdom”

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Shabason is an adaptable collaborator with a long resume. He’s been a member of Destroyer, and he’s released records with people like Dawn Richard and Spencer...

Led by Wendy Eisenberg, the Massachusetts band’s third album explores communication challenges in an articulate and exhilarating rock fusion

“I wanted to make something that sounds natural and unnatural at the same time,” says Jasamine White-Gluz of No Joy, whose fifth album Bugland is inspired by the chaos and excess of nature, and a rece...

Bummer in the summer

QWAM release new video for "About You." The track is off the Brooklyn band's, Alex Farrar produced album girls aren't afraid of blood

On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later, the University of Chicago — the site of the first self-sustaining nuclear...

Stream new releases from Justin Bieber, Clipse, Wet Leg, Che, Burna Boy, Gina Birch, Open Mike Eagle, Fuubutsushi, and Tony Njoku

Ganser kicked off June with the announcement of their new record Animal Hospital. The Chicago post-punk outfit unveiled “Black Sand,” and now they’re releasing “Discount Diamonds.”

The 70 best albums of 2025 offer sublime music as major artists return with new work and brilliant new sounds bubble up from the underground and worldwide.

Our weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeat

Inspired by Jonathan Ames’ novel, the track appears on the songwriter’s upcoming collab-heavy LP Before the Future.

Read Grayson Haver Currin’s review of the album.

Tune in to 100.1 FM or lightning100.com all day to hear “Possession” by Ty Segall, Steph’s DJ Pick of the Week! Also, share your thoughts on the track by tagging #L100DJPicks on Twitter!

The FADER's weekly roundup of the best new music featuring HAIM, KATSEYE, Joy Orbison & Overmono, Babyfather, Jonah Yano & Mk.gee, Caroline Polachek, and more.

8 track album

Listen to 68 tracks that made major statements, boosted big beefs, propelled up-and-comers and soundtracked the party this year.

This year’s best albums included the virtuosity of pianist Vijay Iyer, the survivalist punk of Straw Man Army and more.

Read Colin Joyce’s review of the EP.

Featuring cameos from fantasy of a broken heart, Venus Twins, Tempers, Drew McDowall, and more from the recent show in Ridgewood.

Read Meaghan Garvey’s review of the album.

15 track album