A two-album release called
Visions & Dreams will present the organization's 20-year retrospective via Phenotypic Recordings in two volumes, with Volume 1 due digitally on June 26 and Volume 2 on July 10. The collection brings together several diverse composers and performers, many of whom are longtime collaborators. The first single, "Shiner" by Sarah Kirkland Snider, is out now. According to Executive and Artistic Director Kate Hatmaker, “Shiner was written for an unlikely cast of characters: trombone, harp, viola and marimba—finding beauty in unexpected places.”
A new release called
Tracks From the Attic Revisited features ten tracks culled from the 37-track home recordings first heard on
Tracks From the Attic, a triple album released by IPR in 2024. Some of the songs have been reshaped, sometimes rewritten and are now reinterpreted and recorded with a full band. “The demos were like neglected little seeds that had been set aside, or fallen on fallow land,” David J reflects. “They’ve been gathered up, nurtured, tended and brought back to life as little buds. Now this is the bloom.” Guest musicians include guitarist Jason Roberts (Spoon), drummer David Raven (Steve Earle, Keith Richards, Lucinda Williams), Jon Bernstein (piano, organ), Tony Green (bass), Dan Clucas (trumpet), Robert “Smokey” Miles (Bob Dylan's accordion player), John Courage (lap steel) and Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction) on congas.
Their new album
Sunny Day drops July 17 via Pacific Records, with 13 tracks blending reggae, surf rock, funk, and hip-hop written by the band’s Baron Lunbeck and produced by Brian Witkin and Donna Daly. The album is preceded by a single and video for the title track, and a single for “Up Up” featuring rapper Dizzy Wright. The latter song is a reimagined fan favorite from Sandollar’s 2013 Pacific Records debut
Roller Coaster Ride, featuring reggae and island‑music singer‑songwriter KBong (Stick Figure).
The jazz vocalist's album
(Full Circle) To Diane Schuur With Love, Jonathan Karrant, a tribute to Grammy-winning legend Diane Schuur, drops September 11 via Green Hill Productions, with the first single “Caught a Touch of Your Love” available now. “Diane has been such an important part of my life, not just as an artist I admire, but as someone who truly believed in me,” says Karrant. “This album is my way of honoring that relationship. These songs carry so much history, and I wanted to approach them with care, while still bringing my own voice and perspective to them. To be able to share a couple of these moments with her on record is something I’ll always hold close.”
A video of the group singing America's 1970s radio staple “Ventura Highway” in their tour van is qualifying as a genuine viral hit, quickly earning over 90,000 views. According to the band, "We’ve never had a video move like this before. No big production. No strategy meeting. Just us packed into a van singing a song we’ve loved for years somewhere along the California coast. And somehow, people really connected with it. The comments have been amazing, with some people discovering the band for the very first time through one random clip on their phone at 1am. It’s been really cool to watch."
Their fourteenth studio album
Forever Now is due June 26, preceded by a single for “Absolution” and supported by a 38-date Forever Now Tour that hits The Sound on October 24 with guest Anberlin. “We poured everything we have into making Forever Now, but we always say that an album isn't finished until you take it on tour,” said co-founding bassist Tim Foreman of the album, which was produced by longtime collaborator and producer Mike Elizondo. “Playing new songs on the road and seeing them connect with fans every single night is a gift. These songs are incredibly meaningful to us… increasingly relevant in the 'strange, strange times' we live in.”
She has a new single and video for her folk-pop track “The Road to Nowhere,” inspired by her journey to Lapland, Finland, where she connected with her family’s indigenous Sámi roots in the remote town of Salla. "I spent four days driving from Amsterdam to the top of the world, Lapland, dodging reindeer and sleeping under the stars, and found a piece of myself maybe I always knew was missing,” she says. “This song captures the peculiar magic of the open road: troubles flying out the window, new landscapes and perspectives, and the realization that 'nowhere' is the only place I want to be.” Skidmore was named a Top 5 finalist in the Great American Song Contest’s Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting category for “The Road to Nowhere.”
The metal band released a new single and video for "Policies of Hate," from their sophomore album
The Grave Remains, recently released via Redefining Darkness. The album includes guest appearances from Gary Holt (Exodus, Slayer), Lee Altus (Exodus, Heathen), Rob Cavestany (Death Angel), Russ Tippons (Satan), and Laura Christine (Dark Angel, Warface).
The rapper has multiple projects planned for the rest of 2026, including an album called
Therapy Aint Work For Me, along with an autobiography,
I Cant Make This Shit Up, and a documentary titled
Clown.
Mike Keneally and Marcelo Radulovich have a new collaborative album called
Saturday, marking the latest “day-of-the-week” instrumental release that they've recorded together.
Their new album
37 Aigburth Drive was recorded at Motor Studios and Abbey Road Studios, although its content was created during the pandemic. The album is named after a location in Liverpool where the band found refuge and wrote the songs during lockdown.
Her new full-length
My Voice is a full-length instrumental blues album released by Ruf Records that features ten original and cover tracks focused on using her guitar work as her "voice."
The reunited band's new single “Statues” is a previously unreleased track dating back to 2008 and recently unearthed.
Seminal 90s hardcore band End of the Line and Santa Barbara’s Downcast, who last played together in 1992, are hooking up for a pair of June dates in San Diego and Los Angeles, at the Che Café on June 13 and Los Angeles’s Oblivion on June 14. End of the Line, who were only extant around eight months together, will be playing their first shows in 34 years. San Diego band Three Moments of an Explosion will be opening both events.
A new single and video for the track "Runaway" precedes a full-length album called
The Jacks Attack due for release June 12. The music video for “Runaway” was recorded live during a San Diego performance, with visuals that were created using a blend of photography and AI-enhanced motion, adding a surreal, dancing quality to the imagery.
