Daily Newsletter, August 9, 2025

From Chappell Roan’s long break to AI Ozzy Osbourne tributes, this is what The FADER editors are talking about this week.

Plus crucial reissues of The Sabres of Paradise's 'Sabresonic' and "Haunted Dancehall,' and more.

Stream new releases from Amaarae, Gunna, No Joy, Ada Lea, Osees, Charley Crockett, Big Freedia, Anamanaguchi, Mechatok, and Field Medic

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

Atwood's staff share the music they've been listening to in the moment. This week's roundup includes mgk, BOLD LOVE, Miranda del Sol, Superfan, Bobby Freemont, Baby Rose, Wilby, Quinn XCII, Ivory Layne, BLACKPINK, Gina Zo, Bones Shredder, Adult Leisure, Katzù Oso, ZADA, Nierra Creek, Quaking Aspens, Adam Spry, & Mezanmi!

Art pop, gloom rock, ambient, and more.

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

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.

The University Of North Texas is a huge public research school that has a funny way of feeling like a small liberal arts college sometimes. When people ask me what it was like being a student there 10 years ago, I tend to tell them one of two stories: the time I wrote about a block-wide house show “festival” for the school paper, or the time I drunkenly scaled a fence to flee a DIY steel drum ensemble gig as the cops shut it down. Denton, Texas is close enough to Dallas that you can forge the hour-long drive to catch a touring band coming through Deep Ellum if you really want to, but I certainly didn’t need to in order to get my live music fix. Everybody was either in a band or knew somebody in one. There wasn’t exactly a revolution happening in Denton in the mid-2010s, but when I was 19, that understated counterculture felt as close as I could get to being in DC in 1986 or Olympia in 1991.

Ethel Cain. Charley Crockett. J.I.D. Plug in to the week's top new releases with NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and guest DeShun Nance of WJSU's The Sipp in Jackson, Miss.The Starting 5:• J.I.D, 'God Does Like Ugly' (Stream)• Ethel Cain, 'Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You' (Stream)• Amaarae, 'BLACK STAR' (Stream)• Charley Crockett, 'Dollar a Day' (Stream)• Gordi, 'Like Plasticine' (Stream)The Lightning Round:• Hayes Carll, 'We're Only Human'• Big Freedia, 'Pressing Onward'• Ashley Monroe, 'Tennessee Lightning'• Bryson Tiller, 'The Vices'• Ada Lea, 'when i paint my masterpiece'See our long list of albums out Aug. 8 and sample more than 50 of them via our New Music Friday playlist on the All Songs Considered blog.CreditsHost: Stephen ThompsonGuest: DeShun Nance (WJSU's The Sipp)Audio Producer: Noah CaldwellDigital Producer: Elle MannionProduction Assistant: Dora LeviteEditor: Otis HartExecutive Producer: Suraya Mohamed

The FADER picks the best new albums to stream on New Music Friday, including Amaraae's 'Black Star,' For Those I Love's 'Carving The Stone,' and more.

This week's Notable Releases include Blackbraid, Ethel Cain, JID, Amaarae, and more.

Jason Mott’s People Like Us, Åsne Seierstad’s The Afghans, and Elaine Castillo’s Moderation all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Li…

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