Daily Newsletter, June 18, 2025

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.

It all sounds like musical structures that are at the same time both simple and complex.

Since its earliest iteration seven years ago, Hotline TNT has been, for all intents and purposes, Will Anderson’s solo project. For his 2023 breakout album Cartwheel, the shoegaze-inclined musician hit the studio with little more than the record’s producer, assembling its great 12 songs almost exclusively by himself. It was a big level up from Anderson’s first Hotline TNT record, 2021’s decidedly lo-fi Nineteen In Love, though his fiercely DIY ethos still gave way to Cartwheel’s cozy, delightfully imperfect fuzz. For maybe the first time, Cartwheel made Hotline TNT a buzz band beyond their New York City home base, sending them out on the road with peers and buzz-band predecessors Wednesday and earning their first proper festival gigs. Live, the songs on Cartwheel soared — that studio distortion became blissfully overwhelming, the melodies atop it sounding somehow even more triumphant. A full band, at least relative to just one dude, can have that effect.

A new research review shows live music isn’t just entertainment — it’s a proven way to boost feelings of belonging and community.

It's a great day when your favorite artist releases a new record. But what if they released seven new records at once, full of music you didn't even know existed? That's what Bruce Springsteen is doing on his forthcoming box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums.

Our recap of the year's chart topping LPs in the U.S. includes many classic rock favorites. Several took years to rise to the top.

The 1960s were an incredibly exciting time for guitar music, and that can be heard perfectly in the plethora of amazing riffs and solos that flooded the decade.

You can now share your favorite lyrics on YouTube Music

I’ve been spending a lot of time painting and drawing over the last few weeks which means I’ve been listening to a mountain of new music in the process. I finally figured out a good sys…