New Music Friday is bringing the heat for May 23, 2025 as we head into Memorial Day Weekend with a stacked slate of fresh releases. Detroit rapper Boldy James teams up with producer Your Boy […]

Happy New Music Friday, High Noters! It’s May 16, 2025, and the release radar is buzzing. Tune-Yards return with “Better Dreaming.” Chuck D delivers “Radio Armageddon.” Sleep Theory’s debut “Afterglow” fuses alt-metal, nu-metal and rhythm […]

It’s an indie-rock-heavy week with a strong nostalgic pull and a few sonic surprises for New Music Friday, May 9, 2025. The Head and the Heart return with “Aperture.” Counting Crows finally deliver the long-awaited […]

It’s the first New Music Friday of May and the release radar is heating up along with the weather on May 2, 2025. Hip-hop heads will be thrilled by “Conversational Pieces,” a full-length collaboration between […]

It’s another packed New Music Friday for April 18, 2025 and this week brings a mix of raw emotion, indie grit and experimental grooves. Beirut returns with “A Study of Losses.” Julien Baker and Torres […]

It’s New Music Friday on April 11, 2025, and the release radar is bursting with standout albums Bon Iver returns with the ethereal “Sable, Fable.” Valerie June casts her mystical spell with “Owls, Omens and […]

Welcome to another New Music Friday on The High Note for April 4, 2025. Diryrojectors and Stargaze join forces for “Song of the Earth,” an ambitious and orchestral exploration of art-pop and classical textures. Jazz […]

Happy New Music Friday, High Note readers – we’re closing out March 2025 with a stacked lineup for New Music Friday, March 28, 2025. One of the most anticipated returns this week comes from Alison […]

Spring is slowly blooming and so is the release radar with a wildly eclectic batch of albums this week for New Music Friday, March 21, 2025. Japanese Breakfast delivers the beautifully titled “For Melancholy Brunettes […]

It’s New Music Friday and with St. Patrick’s Day coming up, you may find a four-leaf clover amongst the albums released today, Friday, March 14, 2025. Charley Crockett continues to cement his place as one […]