All 45 arena dates have sold out, marking a decisive shift in scale for an artist returning to solo headlining after three years.
All 45 arena dates have sold out, marking a decisive shift in scale for an artist returning to solo headlining after three years.
The actor-musician talks his live-band EP, the comedown from Broadway’s Swept Away, and a small role in Mike Flanagan’s Exorcist reimagining.
Eric D. Johnson returns with the full-band Fruit Bats album, turning mundane details into quietly profound pop on Merge Records.
The Australian songwriter returns with her first album for 4AD, a ten-track set recorded in Melbourne that pairs jangle pop with questions of love and autonomy.
Recorded in 2011 and shelved after Blur regrouped, the guitarist’s long-delayed solo LP arrives via Transgressive next week, rooted in teenage Colchester memories.
This Friday’s releases share a clear sense of purpose. They do not fill time. They shape it. From raw garage-punk manifestos and playful art-punk anthems to polyrhythmic architectures, skeletal noise compressions, drone rituals, textured ambient explorations, warm analog reflections and cinematic memory metaphors, each one earns its duration through detail, tension and intention.
After screaming into the abyss on his third album, the Chicago songwriter returns with five tracks that choose nurture over force. Walls of Love is music that understands connection as work.
The Chicago band returns with a record shaped by refreshed songwriting dynamics and a first-time outside producer.
Taja Cheek returns with a 13-track follow-up to I Killed Your Dog, out August 14 on Mexican Summer, and a lead single that moves from coiled calm to explosive release.
The track’s fragile minimalism frames a sharp meditation on how words work.