{"id":2418250,"date":"2026-05-15T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2418250"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:54:03","slug":"new-music-friday-may-15-2026-the-indy-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-music-friday-may-15-2026-the-indy-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Friday: May 15, 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\">May Music Madness continues! Last week brought the return of <strong>Social Distortion<\/strong>, among many other prominent groups. This week, we finally get a new album from <strong>The All-American Rejects<\/strong>, which I have been greatly looking forward to. Oscar-winning Americana artist <strong>Ryan Bingham<\/strong> has his latest LP out today. We also have the latest solo album from <strong>Wolf Parade<\/strong>\u2018s <strong>Spencer Krug<\/strong>, and a new one from indie folk rocker <strong>Kevin<\/strong> <strong>Morby<\/strong>. <strong>The King Blues<\/strong> are back with a surprise new EP, and if you want some real dirty rock n\u2019 roll, listen to the new EPs from <strong>Hot Juice<\/strong> and <strong>Crime Film<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another huge favorite of mine, <strong>Brian Fallon<\/strong> (<strong>The Gaslight Anthem<\/strong>), dropped the first two tracks from his next album this week. <strong>Modest Mouse<\/strong> dropped the third song from their next album, and ska gods <strong>Less Than Jake<\/strong> shared the single from their upcoming split EP. Hard rockers <strong>Breaking Benjamin<\/strong> are finally back with new music, and <strong>The Strokes<\/strong> are keeping up with their new auto-tune loving sound on their second single. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Songwriter <strong>Sondre Lerche<\/strong> announced his latest album this week and shared the innocent first single. <strong>Peter Frampton<\/strong> is joined by <strong>Sheryl Crow<\/strong> (who just killed it at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theindyreview.com\/2026\/05\/04\/live-report-beachlife-festival-2026-day-3\/\">Beachlife<\/a>) for his latest single. <strong>The Mountain Goats<\/strong> are back with a Charlie Sheen-inspired song, while <strong>MGK<\/strong> has re-teamed with <strong>Wiz Khalifa<\/strong> for a summery new pop-rap track. And speaking of summer, there\u2019s a new <strong>Sublime<\/strong> track that will likely fit the vibe of the season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019ll also hear familiar artists like <strong>Alex Amor<\/strong>, <strong>Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, Spacey Jane<\/strong>, <strong>Russell Jamie Johnson<\/strong>, <strong>Shakey Graves<\/strong>, <strong>Emperor X<\/strong>, <strong>The Sleights<\/strong>, <strong>Julez and the Rollerz, Pickle Juice<\/strong>, <strong>Elle Belle,<\/strong> <strong>Stephen Day<\/strong>, <strong>Fink<\/strong>, <strong>Sincere<\/strong> <strong>Engineer, Brother Bird<\/strong>, <strong>Trashcan Sinatras, Fruit Bats, SeeTrees, Las Robertas<\/strong>, <strong>Seahaven<\/strong>, <strong>Octavian Winters<\/strong>, <strong>Common People, Post Sex Nachos<\/strong>, <strong>Snarls,<\/strong> <strong>Syd Sidney<\/strong>, <strong>Criteria<\/strong>, <strong>Sparkle Blood<\/strong>, <strong>New Constellations<\/strong>, <strong>Trabants, The<\/strong> <strong>Doomstompers, Switchfoot, Shaggy, The Maine, Rebelution, Piebald, Matt Hansen<\/strong> and <strong>Ken Pomeroy<\/strong> on the playlist this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this week\u2019s fresh finds include <strong>Light Once Lost, Wasia Projects<\/strong>, <strong>Rob Burger,<\/strong> <strong>Walt Disco, Lawrence Kim, Bellows<\/strong>, <strong>Alex Amen, Les Greene<\/strong>, <strong>ME.<\/strong>, <strong>Bring Your Own Hammer<\/strong>, <strong>Mad Honey, Night Talks<\/strong>, <strong>Dermot Henry,<\/strong> <strong>Guachinangos<\/strong>, <strong>DD Island<\/strong>, <strong>Ben Alleman<\/strong>,<strong> Ian Kieffer, Martin Black<\/strong>, <strong>Your Friend, Death<\/strong>, <strong>Slow Shiv<\/strong> and <strong>Dan Miraldi<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to them all in our <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/6ev6yxufHeDvitWMugIwXy?si=1dc8a0db2df9431f\">New Music Friday Playlist<\/a>.<\/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>May Music Madness continues! Last week brought the return of Social Distortion, among many other prominent groups. This week, we finally get a new album from The All-American Rejects, which I have been greatly looking forward to. Oscar-winning Americana artist Ryan Bingham has his latest LP out today. We also have the latest solo album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2418253,"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-2418250","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\/1778860416_New-Music-Friday-May-15-2026-\u2013-The-Indy-Review.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418250","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=2418250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418255,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418250\/revisions\/2418255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2418253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}