{"id":2407760,"date":"2026-05-08T15:13:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2407760"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:13:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:13:49","slug":"new-music-friday-may-8-2026-the-indy-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-music-friday-may-8-2026-the-indy-review\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Friday: May 8, 2026 \u2013 The Indy Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day is FINALLY here. Our 3x <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theindyreview.com\/2026\/01\/05\/most-anticipated-albums-of-2026\/\">Most Anticipated Album<\/a> of the year <strong>Social Distortion<\/strong>\u2018s <em>Born to Kill<\/em> is finally out in the world. Rejoice!!! While this one is a big deal, since it\u2019s been fifteen years since their last album, it\u2019s not the only significant comeback this week. <strong>Broken Social Scene<\/strong> haven\u2019t released an album of new material in nine years, but that drought also ends today. It\u2019s been eight years since the last <strong>Basement<\/strong> album, so their new one is another one to celebrate. While <strong>The Lemon Twigs<\/strong> have remained active, any new music from the power pop band is one to be excited about. Up-and-coming soul artist <strong>Brother Wallace<\/strong> shared his electric new LP this week, and <strong>Future Teens<\/strong> dropped their latest album which our writer LOVED (read his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theindyreview.com\/2026\/05\/06\/album-review-future-teens-still-life\/\">review of their album<\/a>). San Diegan Americana artist <strong>Jack Van Cleaf<\/strong> also surprised this week with a new EP. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last original rock n\u2019 roll band standing, <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong>, announced their new album <em>Foreign Tongues<\/em> this week, and dropped two songs from the upcoming album. Announced on their album is <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>, who also released a new duet with his <strong>Beatles<\/strong> bandmate <strong>Ringo Starr<\/strong> today. From internationally known, to local heroes <strong>Pacific Radio<\/strong>, who\u2019s new single we premiered yesterday, and have in the list today. <strong>Angus &amp; Julia Stone<\/strong> take things to the \u2018Karaoke Bar\u2019 on their latest single, while <strong>Mod Sun<\/strong> is looking in the \u2018Mirror\u201d on his.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my favorite ska-punk groups, <strong>The Iron Roses<\/strong>, are back with a bang. <strong>Low Cut Connie<\/strong> rocks away on his latest single, and <strong>Goose<\/strong>\u2018s latest sounds like a lost track from era\u2019s past. <strong>Face to Face<\/strong>\u2018s <strong>Trever Keith<\/strong> continues his journey into country music with \u201cOnly Time,\u201d while <strong>Winona<\/strong> <strong>Fighter<\/strong> are back with a bang on their new track \u201cBombs Away.\u201d <strong>Kurt<\/strong> <strong>Vile<\/strong> keeps the grooves strong the latest single from his next album, and <strong>Father John Misty<\/strong>\u2018s latest is a scorching folk rock track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also have back <strong>Masks<\/strong>, <strong>Rosenthal<\/strong>, <strong>she\u2019s green, Teenage Joans,<\/strong> <strong>zzzahara, Ray Bull,<\/strong> <strong>Felicity, Deer Tick<\/strong>, <strong>Elena<\/strong> <strong>Moon Park<\/strong>, <strong>Moody Joody<\/strong>,<strong> Lenka, Brook Fox<\/strong>, <strong>Mark Ward, Dazy<\/strong>, <strong>The Pretty Graves, Young Martyrs<\/strong>, <strong>Temper Trap,<\/strong> <strong>Aly Navarro<\/strong>, <strong>The Woggles<\/strong>, <strong>Devon Thompson<\/strong>, <strong>Papa Roach, The Last Dinner Party, Stanley Simmons, Pete Yorn,<\/strong> <strong>Death of Guitar Pop, Myles Smith<\/strong>, <strong>Iceage<\/strong>, <strong>The Flatliners<\/strong>, <strong>Michigander,<\/strong> <strong>Stephen Marley, Dogstar, Buffalo Traffic Jam<\/strong> and <strong>Chance Pena<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And joining our list for the first time this week are <strong>Linda Perry<\/strong>, <strong>Movements<\/strong>, <strong>Parts &amp; Labor, Madska<\/strong>, <strong>Wave of the Flood<\/strong>, <strong>Drury Hill<\/strong>, <strong>Highdrive<\/strong>, <strong>Teagan Johnston<\/strong>, <strong>Harrison Gordon<\/strong>, <strong>South Summit<\/strong>, <strong>General Chaos<\/strong>, <strong>Deardarkhead<\/strong>, <strong>Simeon Walker<\/strong>, <strong>JPEGMafia<\/strong>, <strong>Man Mountain<\/strong>, <strong>Charles Fauna<\/strong> and <strong>Funambulist<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stream all these new releases in our <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/6ev6yxufHeDvitWMugIwXy?si=e14218f10bc747e2\">New Music Friday Playlist<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"\/>\n<span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source theindyreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day is FINALLY here. Our 3x Most Anticipated Album of the year Social Distortion\u2018s Born to Kill is finally out in the world. Rejoice!!! While this one is a big deal, since it\u2019s been fifteen years since their last album, it\u2019s not the only significant comeback this week. Broken Social Scene haven\u2019t released an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2407761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/New-Music-Friday-May-8-2026-\u2013-The-Indy-Review.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407762,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407760\/revisions\/2407762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}