Daily Newsletter, August 16, 2025

From the Marty Supreme trailer return to an unexpected Lana Del Rey beef, this is what The FADER editors are talking about this week.

This week's Notable Release include Kerosene Heights, Pool Kids, Marissa Nadler, Pile, Rise Against, and more.

Stream new releases from Dijon, Cass McCombs, Chance the Rapper, Marissa Nadler, Protect, Pile, Recoechi, Mondo Lava, Pool Kids, and Racing Mount Pleasant

AllMusic provides comprehensive music info including reviews and biographies. Get recommendations for new music to listen to, stream or own.

Appalachian folk, hip-hop reissues, and more.

A weekly post highlighting but a few of our favorite new releases in splendid alphabetical order, brief and (hopefully) informative. There’s a lot of great music out every week and these are but some of the many we think you should check out.

Plus: Steve Gunn, a look back at The Rakes, and more of the week in classic indie and alternative

Here's a list of new rock music releases due on Aug. 15, 2025, with a look ahead to the rest of the month and beyond.

The FADER picks the best new albums to stream on New Music Friday, including Dijon's 'Baby,' KAYTRANADA's 'Ain't No Damn Way,' and more.

The new albums from Why Bonnie and Enumclaw should be at the top of your queue today. Tap in and find a new obsession.

KAYTRANADA. Dijon. Molly Tuttle. We discuss the best new albums of the week with arts critic Amelia Mason from WBUR in Boston.Intro• KAYTRANADA, 'AIN’T NO DAMN WAY!' (Stream)The Starting 5• Dijon, 'Baby' (Stream)• Marissa Nadler, 'New Radiations' (Stream)• Molly Tuttle, 'So Long Little Miss Sunshine' (Stream)• Pile, 'Sunshine and Balance Beams' (Stream)• Joseph Decosimo, 'Fiery Gizzard' (Stream)The Lightning Round• Cassandra Jenkins, 'My Light, My Massage Parlor'• Cass McCombs, 'Interior Live Oak'• Audrey Hobert, 'Who's The Clown' (Read our feature on Audrey Hobert on NPR.org)• Najee Janey, 'Royalty'• Bret McKenzie, 'Freak Out City'See our Long List of albums out Aug. 15 and sample more than 50 of them via our New Music Friday playlist on npr.org.

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

Joan Baez was already heralded as the “Queen of Folk” by the time Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan arrived in New York City. Many things brought him to the burgeoning folk scene there, but Baez was the siren who called to a young Dylan through his television set long before he met her.