Happy New Music Friday! June 12, 2026 is bringing us an absolutely stacked slate of new releases across every genre imaginable. Whether you’re craving pop bangers, experimental jazz, doom metal, or everything in between, this week has something special waiting for you.
Olivia Rodrigo returns with “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” a follow-up that promises the same emotional gut-punches and razor-sharp songwriting that made her a generational voice. Bebe Rexha sheds her pop polish on “Dirty Blonde,” an album that finds the singer-songwriter embracing raw vulnerability and gritty authenticity. Jon Spencer delivers “Songs of Personal Loss and Protest,” a furious and unflinching collection that channels personal pain into political fury with his signature blues-punk intensity. Kelsey Lu’s “So Help Me God” is an ambitious sonic cathedral, weaving together experimental pop, classical strings, and gospel influences into something transcendent. Khemmis brings the heavy with their self-titled album “Khemmis,” a doom metal masterwork that balances crushing riffs with surprising melodic beauty.
As always, the entire list of new albums released today, Friday, June 12, 2026 is below in no particular order. My most anticipated albums are in bold.
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New Album Releases – Friday, June 12, 2026
Alex Amen – “Sun of Amen”
Ambrose Akinmusire / Mary Halvorson – “Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings”
Ambrose Akinmusire and Mary Halvorson – “Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings”
Angine de Poitrine – “Angine de Poitrine, Vol. 1”
Angine de Poitrine – “Angine de Poitrine, Vol. 2”
Baauer – “U”
Bebe Rexha – “Dirty Blonde”
Big Brave – “In Grief or in Hope”
Big D and the Kids Table – “The Good Ole American Saturday Night”
Blxst – “Labor of Love”
CFCF – “L.U.V. (Life in Ultra Violet)”
Dagny – “Dancefloor Erotica”
Des Rocs – “To Hell and Back”
Dirty Heads – “7 Seas”
Embrace – “Avalanche”
Fires in the Distance – “Circadian Promise”
Fleshcrawl – “Epitome of Carnage”
Fruit Bats – “The Landfill”
Genghis Tron – “Signal Fire”
Goose – “Big Modern!”
Hayley Kiyoko – “Girls Like Girls”
Hayley Kiyoko – “girls like girls (the album)”
Horse Lords – “Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!”
Jesse Welles – “Masks Off”
Jessie Reyez – “A Little Vengeance”
John Southworth – “Rain from the East”
Johnny Orlando – “Songs for Young Lovers”
Jon Spencer – “Songs of Personal Loss and Protest”
josh conway – “plum”
Josh Pyke – “Kingdom Within”
Kalia Vandever – “Mana”
KatzPascale – “ELEGY”
Keith Urban – “Flow State”
Kelsey Lu – “So Help Me God”
Khemmis – “Khemmis”
La Sécurité – “Bingo!”
Mekons – “Horrorble (Mekons vs. Tony Maimone in Dub Conference)”
Midland – “Stages”
Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs – “Mission of Mercy”
Mitski – “Puberty 2 (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)”
Myles Smith – “My Mess, My Heart, My Life”
Olivia Rodrigo – “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love”
Piebald – “Tales for the Rages”
Pussy Riot – “CYKA”
Rachel Bolan – “Gargoyle of the Garden State”
Ruel – “Kicking My Feet & Screaming”
Six Sex – “ULTRA”
Sleeping with Sirens – “An Ending in Itself”
Sonny Fodera – “Can We Do It All Again?”
South Summit – “Run It Back”
Spacey Jane – “Exit Wounds”
Spread Eagle – “The Brutal Divine”
Still Remains – “Spirit Breaker”
Stitched Up Heart – “Medusa”
Sublime – “Until the Sun Explodes”
Tarja Turunen – “Frisson Noir”
The Bobby Lees – “New Self”
Tori Kelly – “God Must Really Love Me”
Wiki – “Ancient History”
Yes – “Aurora”
YHWH Nailgun – “Magazine”
