Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

But our overall winner for the week were black metal godfathers Venom, Lay Down Your Soul tapping into the primordial nastiness that helped spawn metal's most evil subgenre in the first place. This ...

Sturgill Simpson's latest outing as Johnny Blue Skies leads this week's batch of new music releases, joining titles from the Jonas Brothers, Jack Harlow, the Black Crowes, Lamb of God, Foy Vance, ...

Kim Gordon could not be serious. Yet not only was she not kidding, she had taken a concept that sounded like a punchline and turned it into a project as vital as it was vexing. The Sonic Youth ...

Modern nu-metal band UnityTX are back with a new album coming out in a couple weeks and as such, they’ve put out another single titled “STFU” to keep hype up. And as you might expect with that title, ...

Here is your 2026 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week’s newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

Metal/hip-hop fusion band UnityTX is currently gearing up for the release of their their sophomore album Somewhere, In Between…, out March 13, 2026 via Pure Noise Records. The band has today shared ...

Brand new tunes from Trash Boat, UnityTX, and Mothica, an introduction to Held. featuring members of Coheed & Cambria and The Sleeping, and Joshua Redbeard spins Aussie heavies Hammers and Batara Kala ...

UnityTX are back at it and have revealed the details of their first full-length in three years, following up 2023’s ‘Ferality’. Titled ‘Somewhere, In Between’, it will be released on March 13 via Pure ...

UnityTX have announced their second full-length album Somewhere, In Between…, a record that crystallises more than a decade of tension, ambition and lived experience into their most focused statement ...

When UnityTX vocalist Jay Webster’s mom bought him a toy guitar as a kid, he destroyed it by smashing it on the basketball court. As it turns out, that was a precursor to going against the grain. As ...