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Sturgill Simpson is bringing back his Johnny Blue Skies moniker for a new album titled Mutiny After Midnight. The country rocker Simpson explained that he and his band - now billed as Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds - recorded the "album centered firmly on groove" in a Nashville studio in between their 2025 tours of the US and Western Europe.

Multi-platinum singer, songwriter and filmmaker Melanie Martinez returns with HADES, her long-awaited fourth studio album and first full-length release in three years. <br/><br/>Her previous three albums CRY BABY, K-12, and PORTALS, all debuted at #1 on the Billboard Alternative Albums chart, with PORTALS launching at #2 on the Billboard 200, cementing Martinez as one of alternative pop's most innovative and influential forces.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, 5150 is the first of four albums Van Halen recorded with lead singer Sammy Hagar. To mark this moment, Rhino is releasing a 2CD expanded edition of this classic with a remastered version of the original album and a disc of rare singles edits and B-sides. Includes the evergreen tracks "Why Can't This Be Love", "Dreams", Love Walks In" and "Best of Both Worlds".

After a nearly five-decade (and counting) career as one of his generation's defining rock bassists, Flea releases his first full-length solo album, Honora, on Nonesuch Records. <br/>Time and space have finally allowed him to return to his first musical loves: jazz and playing the trumpet.<br/> <br/>For Honora, which takes its name from a beloved family member, Flea composed and arranged the music, and also plays trumpet and bass throughout, joined by an elite crew of modern jazz visionaries: album producer and saxophonist Josh Johnson, guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Deantoni Parks. The record features vocals from Flea, as well as friends Thom Yorke and Nick Cave. Mauro Refosco (David Byrne, Atoms for Peace) and Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes), among others, also join the band. <br/>The album comprises six original songs-including one co-written by Flea, Johnson, and Yorke-as well as interpretations of tunes by George Clinton and Eddie Hazel, Jimmy Webb, Frank Ocean and Shea Taylor, and Ann Ronell.

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Maisie Peters has announced her much-anticipated third studio album, Florescence. Co-produced with 2x Grammy Award winner Ian Fitchuk (Kacey Musgraves, Beyoncé, Chris Stapleton) and featuring duets with Julia Michaels and Marcus Mumford, the album arrives two years after her chart-topping breakthrough The Good Witch. <br/><br/>After a whirlwind few years that saw Maisie open for Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Conan Gray, and Noah Kahan, headline her own world tours, and make her Glastonbury debut, she found herself almost constantly on the road. By the end of 2024, the pace had become unsustainable, affecting Maisie physically and mentally, and so she made the decision to step back - pressing pause on the popstar carousel and returning home to reconnect with her life offstage. That quieter chapter gave her space to reset, grounding her not just as a person, but as an artist. It was during this time that the emotional heart of Florescence quietly took shape.<br/> <br/>That return to herself was reflected not only in her life, but in the music. Led by her love of storytelling, Maisie headed to Nashville, where she wrote and recorded much of the album. Reuniting with longtime collaborator Ian Fitchuk - whom she first worked with in 2020 - felt like a natural fit. Together, they crafted the album's warm, textured sound, with Fitchuk supporting Maisie as she stepped into the role of co-producer for the first time.<br/> <br/>Drawing from the aftermath of the relationship explored on The Good Witch, as well as the love story she's now living - having fallen in love with her high school sweetheart - Florescence reflects on how the right love can help heal the wrong ones. It's an album about perspective, self-realisation, healing, and ultimately, learning how to flourish.<br/> <br/>"These 15 tracks depict a blossoming of myself from ages 23 to 25 and a blossoming of a true, real love that anchors both me and this record. It tells the story of the last few long winters, with all of their villains and thorns, heartbreaks and rains, and it leads you, by the end, into a perfect English spring, into the hope and catharsis that comes when the first wildflower blooms," shares Maisie. "This album feels like a true representation of healing, of finding hope, peace, and strength not just in somebody else, but in yourself. It is knowing that there was a point to all the sadness of before, and the point is the woman you see in this mirror now, and the person you see by her side."