Blink and 2024 will be over — that’s the feeling when you realize the tenth month of the year is just around the corner. With falling leaves and jack-o-lanterns, October also brings with it an infusion of new music by icons and new artists, from country to EDM.
Right out the gate, stadium experts Coldplay will release their tenth LP, Moon Music, and FINNEAS (Billie Eilish‘s brother and creative partner) will come forth with For Crying Out Loud! on October 4. In the following week, new records from Becky G, The Offspring, Jelly Roll, and Justin Moore will hit the streaming platforms (and shelves) with the best of Mexican music, punk rock, and classic country.
The month will also feature the return of MC5 after 53 years with Heavy Lifting, Halsey‘s confessional The Great Impersonator, and Joe Jonas‘ sophomore solo, Music for People Who Believe In Love. Rapper Drake has also announced Untitled with PARTYNEXTDOOR — although there’s no further info yet.
To make the best of this exciting season, GRAMMY.com compiled a list of 15 inspiring albums dropping in October 2024.
Coldplay — ‘Moon Music’ (Oct. 4)
October opens up with the arrival of Coldplay’s tenth studio album, the Max Martin-produced Moon Music. Dropping Oct. 4, the LP is a sequel to 2021’s From Earth with Love and part of their Music of the Spheres project and ongoing tour.
The band raised expectations with singles “feelslikeimfallinginlove” and “We Pray” featuring Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, and Tini, and also with a series of immersive listening pop-up events, which will happen in cities like San Juan, London, Beijing, Auckland, and Santiago between October 1–7.
As one of the most sustainably focused bands in the business, Coldplay maintains their commitment in making this record as eco-friendly as possible. Moon Music touts itself to be the world’s first album to be released as 140g EcoRecord vinyl and EcoCD, originating from recycled PET-plastic bottles and polycarbonate, and providing an 85% reduction in CO2 emissions compared to usual productions.
Thee Sacred Souls — ‘Got A Story To Tell’ (Oct. 4)
With their sophomore record, Got A Story To Tell, San Diego-based Thee Sacred Souls want to show that they aren’t just a fad. Following their 2022 self-titled debut and a lengthy tour through North America and Europe, the upcoming 12-track LP finds a “darker, more mature” tone to their music, according to a press statement.
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“As we got busier, we were all dealing with things back home, trying to balance life and music and touring,” said drummer Salvador Samano. Got A Story was mostly written on the road, and vocalist Josh Lane said that all the emotions and personal stories they went through during the tour “were sprinkled into the songwriting to create a potent blend of truth and imagination.”
For a preview of those tales, the trio shared the ethereal “Lucid Girl.” One week following the release, they will hop back on a new tour through North America and Europe, including stops in New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
Samara Joy — ‘Portrait’ (Oct. 11)
Samara Joy, Best New Artist at the 2023 GRAMMYs, will follow up on 2022’s otherworldly Linger Awhile with her new album Portrait. Set to release on Oct. 11, Portrait sees the rising jazz star stepping up into the role of co-producer along Brian Lynch, as well as expanding her singing and songwriting skills into arrangements and leading her touring band.
“Eight musicians, eight fresh perspectives and musical backgrounds — all joined together in a context designed for growth and exploration,” explained Joy of the ensemble in a press release. “I’m often the fifth voice, the fifth horn. I hope listeners will see that I’m a musician too.” According to her, the band’s work in this project represents “a well of inspiration that never runs dry because of the different streams that flow in.”
Among their creations are new interpretations of “You Stepped Out Of A Dream” and “Autumn Nocturne,” as well as fresh lyrics to music by Charles Mingus, Sun Ra, and more. Joy will tour the U.S. for the remainder of 2024, including stops in Florida, New Jersey, California, Arizona, South Carolina, and New York, followed by her A Joyful Holiday Tour in December.
The Offspring — ‘Supercharged’ (Oct. 11)
Four decades deep, punk rock pros The Offspring are still Supercharged — or so goes their forthcoming album title. “We wanted this record to have pure energy,” said frontman Dexter Holland in a press statement. “From the height of our aspirations to the depths of our struggles, we talk about it all on this record.”
A celebration of “the life that we share and where we are now,” Supercharged surges ahead with “Make It Alright,” a single about relying on your “partners in crime,” and “Light It Up,” which channels punk rock’s cathartic aggressions. Produced by Bob Rock, the album was recorded in Maui, Vancouver, and in the band’s studio in Huntington Beach, California. “I feel like this is the best we have ever sounded!” added Holland. “We’ve been rocking out and headbanging to it for months! And we can’t wait for you guys to hear it!”
After performances at festivals Louder Than Life and Oceans Calling in September, the band will head to San Diego’s Punk in the Park on November 16, and then to a sold-out show in Melbourne, Australia, on November 24.
Jelly Roll — ‘Beautifully Broken’ (Oct. 11)
Following a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2024 GRAMMYs, a slew of CMA awards, and the record-breaking success of his country music debut, Whitsitt Chapel, Jelly Roll will keep the momentum going with his new album, Beautifully Broken.
Set to release on Oct. 11, the tracklist includes hits “I Am Not Okay,” “Liar,” and ESPN’s 2024 College Football Season anthem, “Get By.” “I’m looking for songs that have purpose,” said the multifaceted singer in an interview with New York Times Magazine. “When I go to put out a song under the name Jelly Roll, I think to myself, Why? Because for the first time in my life, it has nothing to do with a financial decision. I’m well past putting out anything for money.”
Beautifully Broken was named after Jelly Roll’s ongoing tour, which launched Aug. 27 in Salt Lake City, UT, and will cross more than 30 cities in the U.S. before wrapping up on Nov. 23 in Jacksonville, FL.
Justin Moore — ‘This Is My Dirt’ (Oct. 11)
This Is My Dirt is an album about appreciating your hometown and the simple things in life. “There are some home sentimental, family value type songs on it but also of course some humor, beer drinking hell raising, stone cold country music on there!” shared Arkansas-born singer Justin Moore on Instagram. “It’s also the first album that my touring band has recorded with me which is exciting for us, and something I’m very proud of.”
Featuring collaborations by Blake Shelton, Dierks Bentley, and Randy Houser, This Is My Dirt is one of Moore’s “most confident records to date.” Through 12 tracks, he “still sings about his small town USA,” and keeps “true to his roots, honoring the military and even adding a fun, light-hearted tune or two” that put life as both a dad of four and touring artist in a nutshell.
Moore has been on the Country Round Here Tonight tour with Randy Houser since September, but still has a few dates scheduled for October and November, including stops at Indianapolis, Saint Louis Place, and Myrtle Beach.
The Blessed Madonna — ‘Godspeed’ (Oct. 11)
The Blessed Madonna’s (aka Marea Stamper) debut studio album has been a long time coming, but Godspeed will finally see the light of the day on Oct. 11. The 24-track collection also features appearances from Kylie Minogue, A-Trak, Jamie Principle, and Shaun J. Wright.
The word Godspeed “marks the beginning of a journey and sometimes the end of one,” Stamper explained on instagram. “After nearly a year in lockdown, when I signed the paperwork and knew that I was going to be allowed to make this album, I called my dad in Kentucky to tell him the good news. He could not contain his pride and in a way his relief. I was going to be ok. He says it better than I do at the beginning of the record.”
Stamper lost her dad shortly before the first recording session, but states “his voice will live in Godspeed forever and make a million more journeys to everyone who hears it.” The rest of the tracklist continues to balance “the twin flames of rave and religion” with personal themes, as can be seen in pre-releases “Godspeed” featuring DJ E-Clyps, “Serotonin Moonbeams,” “Mercy” with Jacob Lusk, “Happier” with Clementine Douglas, and “Edge of Saturday Night” featuring Kylie Minogue.
MC5 — ‘Heavy Lifting’ (Oct. 18)
It’s not everyday that a band releases a new record after 53 years, which makes MC5’s posthumous Heavy Lifting even more anticipated. Plus, the album features the final studio recordings of founding guitarist Wayne Kramer and drummer Dennis Thompson, who both passed away earlier this year.
“It’s very heavy,” producer Bob Ezrin said in a statement. “It has a revolutionary message but also a good sense of humor. There’s a little bit of heavy metal. There’s quite a bit of funk. But it is a heavy record, and it’s a guitar record left, right and center. Just a wall of guitars most of the time, and mostly driven by Wayne and his ethos.” Ezrin also mentions that they feel “a responsibility to make sure his work is heard, and he is celebrated.”
The LP is spearheaded by single “Boys Who Play With Matches,” and features stellar guest appearances, such as Slash, William DuVall, Tim McIlrath, and Rage Against The Machine‘s Tom Morello, who features on the title track.
Shawn Mendes — ‘Shawn’ (Oct. 18)
After the announcement of his much-anticipated fifth studio album, Shawn, Shawn Mendes shared on Instagram: “Music really can be medicine. 2 years ago I felt like I had absolutely no idea who I was. A year ago I couldn’t step into a studio without falling into complete panic. So to be here right now with 12 beautiful finished songs feels like such a gift…Life can be brutal but having a small group of people you deeply trust to walk you through makes it so much better.”
The Canadian star has always been honest about his struggles with anxiety, which led him to cancel his 2022 tour after just seven shows. Shawn was crafted in that aftermath, drawing “deeply from his travels and experiences over the last few years,” per a press statement. “It represents his most musically intimate and lyrically honest work to date, guiding listeners through a profound self-dialogue with each song.”
So far, Mendes has shared “Isn’t That Enough,” “Why Why Why,” and “Nobody Knows” off the project, where country-leaning riffs and soulful lyrics reflect his internal growth journey. To celebrate the beginning of a new chapter, the singer announced a series of intimate concerts in North America, taking place from Oct. 14 to Nov. 25.
Halsey — ‘The Great Impersonator’ (Oct. 25)
“I spent half my life being someone else. I never stopped to ask myself: Is this a person you’re proud to leave behind? Is it even you?” singer/songwriter Halsey asks in the album trailer for her upcoming fifth LP, The Great Impersonator.
Described as a “confessional concept album,” The Great Impersonator sees Halsey time-travel through the decades, reimagining what her sound and life could have been like. “I really thought this album might be the last one I ever made. When you get sick like that, you start thinking about ways it could’ve all been different,” she says in the video, recalling her Lupus SLE and T-cell disorder diagnoses. “What if I debuted in the early 2000s, the ’90s, the ’80s, the ’70s… am I still Halsey every time, in every timeline?”
She dares to find out in the Britney Spears-inspired “Lucky,” the moody new metal of “Lonely Is the Muse,” and, most recently, the pop rock of “Ego.” The Great Impersonator follows Halsey’s 2021’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power.
Kelsea Ballerini — ‘Patterns’ (Oct. 25)
Country popstar Kelsea Ballerini is also gearing up to release her fifth album, Patterns, out Oct. 25. Recently, she told The Associated Press that the album is an “accurate snapshot” of her life as a whole — not just its good parts. “I think that people probably expect this really happy-go-lucky, love, mushy, gushy record from me. That’s not the case, and I’m really proud of that.” Patterns is a record about “analyzing yourself and the people that you love the most in order to grow,” Ballerini added.
In the album trailer, she also reflects that “we have the ability to look at our patterns and find the ones that serve us, and then we look at the ones that we don’t want to carry with us, and…change them. I think that we make patterns so they don’t make us.”
That perspective appears in singles “Two Things,” “Sorry Mom,” and “Cowboys Cry Too” with Noah Kahan — the only feature in the album. Ballerini will celebrate the release with a sold-out performance at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Oct. 29.
Joe Jonas — ‘Music for People Who Believe In Love’ (Oct. 25)
The first and last time Joe Jonas released a solo album was in 2011, with the club-ready Fastlife. “I have so much love for those songs — they actually aged pretty well!” Jonas told Billboard in a recent interview. “But it feels like a different person.”
Since then, the Jonas Brothers’ resident middle child founded the pop collective DNCE, reunited with the JoBros for the release of “Sucker,” got married to actress Sophie Turner, welcomed two kids, and went through a turbulent divorce in 2023. “I was going through a lot of life changes,” he reflected. “Finding out who I was as a person and father and friend, and living under the microscope of what the music industry can be. And I think, at such a crazy time in my life, I looked to music as an outlet.”
The result is Music for People Who Believe In Love, Jonas’ sophomore solo album, set to drop on October 25. “It was scary at times, and also freeing,” he said of the experience. “I’m not trying to come for anyone on this album. I’m not trying to put stuff on blast. I have a beautiful life that I’m grateful for. I’ve got two beautiful kids. I’m a happy person, and the music needed to resemble that — but also, the journey to get here.”
Pixies — ‘The Night the Zombies Came’ (Oct. 25)
Just in time for Halloween, veteran indie band Pixies will drop their tenth studio album, The Night the Zombies Came. Following 2022’s Doggerel, this is their first release with new vocalist and bassist Emma Richardson, formerly of Band of Skulls, who replaced Paz Lenchantin in March of this year.
Off the 13-track project, Pixies have shared an eclectic bundle of singles, including “Oyster Beds,” “Chicken,” “You’re So Impatient,” “Que Sera, Sera,” and the recent ’90s rock of Berlin-inspired “Motoroller.” Of the track, vocalist Black Francis explained in a statement: “This is one of those kinds of songs where there’s little threads you can follow and they take you somewhere, but they’re not required for the experience. You can just start fishing around in the lyrics, and maybe you won’t find exactly what the story is, but you’ll find a story related to the city of Berlin. So just have fun with the clues that are there.”
The band will go on tour with Pearl Jam in Australia and New Zealand this November, and announced a 2025 European tour kicking off on April 25 in Utrecht, Netherlands, and concluding on May 24 in Manchester, UK.
Amyl and the Sniffers — ‘Cartoon Darkness’ (Oct. 25)
Australian punk rock quartet Amyl and the Sniffers are gearing up to release their third LP, Cartoon Darkness, on Oct. 25. Recorded at Foo Fighters‘ 606 Studios in Los Angeles, it follows 2021’s Comfort to Me, and sees the band take a layered approach to the world’s current status.
“Cartoon Darkness is about climate crisis, war, AI, tip-toeing on the eggshells of politics, and people feeling like they’re helping by having a voice online when we’re all just feeding the data beast of Big Tech, our modern-day god,” vocalist Amy Taylor shared in a statement. “It’s about the fact that our generation is spoon-fed information. We look like adults, but we’re children forever cocooned in a shell. We’re all passively gulping up distractions that don’t even cause pleasure, sensation or joy, they just cause numbness.”
Singles “Big Dreams,” “Chewing Gum” and “U Should Not Be Doing That” give a taste of Taylor’s words, kicking the door open to the band’s new era. “The future is cartoon, the prescription is dark, but it’s novelty. It’s just a joke. It’s fun,” Taylor adds. Following the release, AatS will embark on a European tour in November.
Soccer Mommy — ‘Evergreen’ (Oct. 25)
For her upcoming fourth LP, Evergreen, Nashville singer Sophie Allison — better known as Soccer Mommy — wanted a new approach to her delicate music. “I wanted to change things up a bit on this one and play around with some more organic textures,” she wrote on Instagram. “It was really important for me that the songwriting shone through everything and came to the forefront.”
Allison revealed “Lost,” “M,” and “Driver” out of the 11-track collection, showcasing that she’s as atmospheric and poignant as ever, crafting even more intricate songs. The album was recorded at Atlanta’s Maze Studios with the help of producer Ben H. Allen III, and will be out Oct. 25.
Starting 2025, Allison will hit the road with a comprehensive tour across North America, including cities like Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and her hometown of Nashville.
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