schönhauser EP
schönhauser EP Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Zartmann Intimate tales of joy and sadness reveal a fearlessly vulnerable pop voice.
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Who Believes In Angels?
Who Believes In Angels? Album ∙ Rock ∙ 2025 Elton John & Brandi Carlile “I’ve been singing with Elton all my life—he just didn’t know it until about 10 or 20 years ago,” Brandi Carlile tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about working with the storied singer-songwriter Sir Elton John. Featuring compositions co-written by John and Carlile along with John’s longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin and producer Andrew Watt, their collaborative album Who Believes in Angels? is a triumphant collection that celebrates the eternal promise held by music. For John, after ending his touring career in 2023 on the highest note possible with performances at Dodger Stadium and Glastonbury, he was seeking a project that would be forward-looking and feel different from his usual collaboration with Taupin. “If I’d just made another Elton John record, I would’ve killed myself,” he says. “I needed her. I needed her talent, her energy, her humor, and her brilliant lyrics. I’ve got two of the...
Forever Howlong
Forever Howlong Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Black Country, New Road By the time Black Country, New Road released their sprawling second album Ants from Up There in 2022, lead vocalist Isaac Wood had departed the London-based indie experimentalists and a magical first phase of the group had come to a close. Rather than tour those records without their original singer, they rejigged their dynamic and wrote a whole new batch of songs—captured on 2023’s Live at Bush Hall —to initiate a new period of the band where vocals and much of the songwriting were led by Tyler Hyde, Georgia Ellery, and May Kershaw. It made for an exhilarating fresh start and their third album Forever Howlong directly picks up from the momentum of starting over again. “We’d done a lot of touring of the live album and we really wanted to further develop this new lineup and write new songs so we could get them into the set list,” saxophonist Lewis Evans tells Apple Music. “There’s a whole bun...
Zenith
Zenith Album ∙ Metal ∙ 2025 Bleed From Within The Scottish metal band reaches new heights on a searing seventh LP.
The Crux
The Crux Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Djo The creation—and especially the success—of his 2024 viral hit “End of Beginning” prepared Djo, the musical alter ego of Stranger Things star Joe Keery, for the recording of his third album. “It was a boost of confidence and a good shot in the arm,” he tells Apple Music. “Doing a song from beginning to end in a studio and getting bit by that was like, ‘Oh man, this is how I want to do this. I don’t think I really want to try to do this in my bedroom.’” Famed New York City studio Electric Lady provided Keery and his frequent producer Adam Thein with the environment they needed. “We were using all the toys,” Keery notes. “This piece of gear was laying around, so let’s mess with it. And it ends up, it informs the whole track. There’s a lot of that going on on this record.” And so, The Crux was born. Unlike his past endeavors, this time he chose to focus on collaboration. “I came up musically in a time where it was Kevin Parker ...
Malcolm Todd
Malcolm Todd Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Malcolm Todd Clever, heart-on-sleeve alt-pop from the LA singer-songwriter.
DON KBRN
DON KBRN Album ∙ Latin ∙ 2025 Eladio Carrión Prior to his poppy pivot on last year’s oft personal Sol María , Eladio Carrión thrived as a trapero. A run of mixtape-style projects like 2020’s Sauce Boyz and two feature-free SEN2 KBRN installments advanced the Puerto Rican rapper’s career from underground stardom to a pivotal part of a contemporary vanguard. That peaked in 2023 with the release of 3MEN2 KBRN , a bold and boastful album that paired the bilingual artist with Future, 50 Cent, and Quavo without losing his foothold in Latin hip-hop. That uncompromising spirit and deep love for rap music persists on DON KBRN , less a return-to-form post- Sol María than a full-throated statement of dedication to the proverbial culture. As a lyricist, Carrión has reached a stage in his rap craft that surpasses both peers and veterans alike. This quickly becomes clear after the brief yet potent intro “Invencible” gives way to the stunning “Ohtani,” t...
Something Beautiful
Something Beautiful Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Miley Cyrus Miley has Something Beautiful for you to hear. Pre-add the album now.
Sentient
Sentient Album ∙ Rock ∙ 2025 Santana The guitar god revisits past gems, solo and collaborative.