*INTERESTING* NEW MUSIC RELEASES: FRIDAY JUNE 27TH, 2025
Pretty much halfway through the year...
This is the last release day in the halfway month. What 2025 records have you been returning to throughout the year? For me it’s been Fust, Horsegirl, and Colin Miller in heavy rotation and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
Anyway, here’s our evergreen reminder that each week we will be adding all the releases highlighted on these pages to Spotify playlists - divided up by each month. Smash the little ⨁ sign next to the shuffle icon of each playlist if you want to save it to your library (recommended). We’re in the month of June now, so a new playlist link for June 2025 is included below.
January 2025 Spotify Playlist - 2025 - 01
February 2025 Spotify Playlist - 2025 - 02
March 2025 Spotify Playlist - 2025 - 03
April 2025 Spotify Playlist - 2025 - 04
May 2025 Spotify Playlist - 2025 - 05
June 2025 Spotify Playlist - 2025 - 06
Continuing from week, we’re going stick with these two new features:
Since some folks who read these weekly rundowns do not use Spotify, each hyperlinked artist/release on the lists below will take you to that release’s “Songlink.” - which is a link aggregator to all the places online where you can find this record (i.e., spotify, apple music, bandcamp and more). Hopefully this will be more inclusive despite us being spotify stans here at TSA.
We’ve also added some “file under” tags to each release to help folks scan for genres that fit with what you normally listen to (or that will help you branch out). Please note that whatever genre we claim a record fits into should be the ultimate decision henceforth. There will be zero room for discussion and/or nuance here (and if you’re not fluent in sarcasm, you’re probably going to be in the dark quite a bit reading these pages). Also, we’re probably going to consult musicmap just to be safe.
In the meantime, let’s get into some select new releases from FRIDAY, JUNE 27th, 2025, and let us know if we missed anything worth hearing!
::THE KNOWNS::
Bruce Springsteen ::TRACKS II:: Jeremy Allen White is out with this m uch anticipated follow-up retrospective.
File Under: Rock/New Jersey
Durand Jones & the Indications ::FLOWERS:: After the two primary singers, Durand Jones and Aaron Frazer branched out with solo efforts, the band formed at Indiana University is back with another set of neo/lowrider soul numbers just in time for summer.
File Under: neo-soul
Durry ::THIS MOVIE SUCKS:: Sure, they were a TikTok viral phenom, but shit, they keep releasing catchy-ass indie pop/garage songs that sound like Gen Z’s merging of Weezer and Jet.
File Under: Indie pop/Gen Z Garage Rock
Fishbone ::STOCKHOLM SYNDROME:: I’m not sure there’s a band out there that better defines the term “genre bending,” and four decades since forming, they’re still doing the damn thing.
File Under: Holy shit, you name it - Ska/soul/punk/rock/polka (probably)
Frankie Cosmos ::DIFFERENT TALKING:: If you’re too cool for popular indie-rock music from artists with over a million monthly listeners, no matter how melodic and catchy the songs (and I am guilty of this), then you’re gonna miss out on this record. It’s really, really good.
File Under: Indie pop
Laura Stevenson ::LATE GREAT:: Stevenson’s self-titles 2021 release still gets heavy spins in this household and LATE GREAT is cut from the same cloth.
File Under: Singer/Songwriter; Rock
Willi Carlisle ::WINGED VICTORY:: Boy Howdy, hot dog! Carlisle is back with another set of socially conscious, anti-fascist, Ozark-tinged folk and protest songs. This set includes a cover of Dick Thompson’s “Beeswing.”
File Under: Ozark protest-folk
::THE NEWS::
Daisy the Great ::THE RUBBER TEETH TALK:: Produced by Catherine Marks (boygenius, St. Vincent, Alanis Morissette), the Brooklyn Duo of Kelley Dugan and Mina Walker blend alt-rock and pop that would not be out of place on a bill alongside Blondshell and/or Illuminati Hotties.
File Under: Alt-rock-pop
Greet Death ::DIE IN LOVE:: You know that quiet, arpeggioed, clean guitar to fuzzed-out shoegaze sound that was a staple in the 90s and perfected by bands like Hum? Yeah…this is more of that and it fucking jams.
File Under: Neo-90s Alt-rock/Fuzzy Shoegaze
HLLYH ::URUBURU:: Formed from the ashes of California experimental pop/dayglo band The Mae Shi, founding member Tim Byron set out to “get the band back together” and crisscrossed California to pull the original Mae Shi members together, adding new members to form HLLYH - who sound like a sunnier, poppier, and sometimes punkier Elephant6 Collective band. I would fuck with a HLLYH/Apple In Stereo bill.
File Under: Experimental pop/punk/dayglo/Elephant6
Pig Pen:: MENTAL MADNESS:: What do you get when Daniel Romano and Wade MacNeil (Alexisonfire) play metal riffs that Chef/Fak Brother/Niagara hardcore veteran Matty Mathieson sings/screams over? You get Pig Pen. This sounds kinda what I think Ryan Adams *wished* that ORION record sounded like.
File Under: Metal/punk
Pleasure Pill ::HANG A STAR:: Imagine 1993-era Oasis, but they’re from San Diego and released a record in 2025. I don’t hate it.
File Under: Neo 90s Alternative/Britpop
Ringlets ::THE LORD IS MY GERMAN SHEPHERD (TIME FOR WALKIES):: Hook-y post-punk, power pop/rock n roll from Aukland NZ. 14/10 album title.
File Under: Post-punk/power pop/rock
Starling ::FORGIVE ME, [EP]:: Moody, lo-fi, scrappy/sloppy (in a good way) Los Angeles indie rock that sounds like it could roll off the rails at any moment.
File Under: lo-fi/indie rock
Smut ::TOMORROW COMES CRASHING:: Melodic rock-n-roll out of Chicagoland.