The 2025 music scene looks vibrant and full of surprises. From the return of legends to the emergence of new talents, this year promises to offer an unforgettable listening experience. From the most classic rock to the most avant-garde proposals, the diversity and quality of the planned releases augur an exciting year for music lovers.
The return of the greats:
The year will begin with a bang with the release of “The Human Fear” by Franz Ferdinand, one of the most influential bands in indie rock. This new work is expected to explore new sonic territories, while maintaining the essence that has characterized the Scottish band throughout their career.
Another eagerly awaited comeback is that of The Verve with “This Is Music: The Singles (20th Anniversary Edition)”. This special reissue promises to rekindle the flame of one of Britpop’s most iconic bands, offering an opportunity to (re)discover the greatest hits that marked an entire generation.
New sounds, new voices:
2025 will also be the year of the consolidation of new talents. Artists like Anna B Savage with her album “You and i are Earth” or Rose Gray with “Louder, Please” promise to surprise with fresh and original proposals that will explore the limits of indie rock and alternative music.
In addition, the year will be marked by the return of artists like The Weeknd with “Hurry Up Tomorrow”, an album that promises to continue exploring the limits of experimental pop.
A journey through genres:
Diversity will be one of the great protagonists of 2025. From the return of rock legends like The Verve to the most avant-garde proposals of artists like FKAtwigs with “Eusexua”, through the electronic pop of Biig Piig with “11:11” and the experimental hip-hop of MIKE with “Showbiz!”, this year will offer a wide range of musical styles for all tastes.
This is just a great preview of what awaits us in 2025. Music will continue to surprise us with new proposals, emerging artists and long-awaited comebacks. Get ready to enjoy a year full of exciting sounds and discover new musical gems.
These are the latest news to which we have had access:
Manic Street Preachers – Critical Thinking
Launch date: January 31, 2025
Description: This will be the Welsh trio’s fifteenth studio album, their first in four years since The Ultra Vivid Lament (2021). The single “Hiding In Plain Sight” features bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire on lead vocals for the first time.
Inhaler – Open Wide
Launch date: February 7, 2025
Description: Elijah Hewson and his band release their third album, follow-up to Cuts & Bruises (2023). Includes the singles “Open Wide” and “Your House”.
The Wombats – Oh! The Ocean
Release Date: February 14, 2025
Description: The indie veterans’ sixth studio album includes the singles “Blood On The Hospital Floor” and “Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come”.
Sam Fender – People Watching
Release date: February 21, 2025
Description: Third album by the British singer-songwriter, preceded by the singles “Nostalgia’s Lie”, “Wild Long Lie” and the title track “People Watching”.
The Lathums – Matter Does Not Define
Release date: March 7, 2025
Description: Third studio album from the Wigan quartet, with singles such as “No Direction” and “Long Shadows”.
The Darkness – Dreams on Toast
Launch date: March 28, 2025
Description: Eighth album by the glam rock band. Its first single is “The Longest Kiss”.
Lana Del Rey – The Right Person Will Stay
Release date: May 21, 2025
Description: The singer’s tenth studio album, which includes a collaboration with Post Malone on the title track.
The Cure – To be confirmed
Possible release: Summer 2025
Description: Robert Smith suggested that a sequel to Songs Of A Lost World (2024) could be released.
Coldplay – To be confirmed
Possible release: 2025
Description: Chris Martin confirmed that this will be the band’s last album, after which they plan to focus solely on touring and collaborations.
Stereophonics – To be confirmed
Possible release: 2025
Description: The Welsh band will accompany their stadium tour with the release of a new album.
Other news:
January 2025
January 5
– Bad Bunny – I Should Have Thrown Out More Photos
January 8
– Ethel Cain – Perverts
January 10
– Ellis King – Better Luck EP
– Franz Ferdinand – The Human Fear
– Lambrini Girls – Who Let The Dogs Out
– Miramar – Entre Tus Flores
– Mon Rovîka – Act 4: Atonement EP
– Moonchild Sanelly – Full Moon
– Ringo Starr – Look Up
– Stick To Your Guns – Keep Planting Flowers
– Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How
– Wyatt E. – zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu Part 1
– zzzahara – Spiral Your Way Out
January 11
– Jason Sinay – The Mountain
January 15
– Skiifall – Lovers Til I’m Gone EP
January 16
– ELLUR – God Help Me Now EP
– some fear – some fear
January 17
– Blood Lemon – Petite Deaths EP
– David Gray – Dear Life
– chlothegod – I Feel Different Every Day EP
– Delights – If Heaven Looks A Little Like This
– Delivery – Force Majeure
– Ela Minus – DIA
– Flora Hibberd – Swirl
– Frank Black – Teenager of the Year (Vinyl Reissue)
– Geowulf – The Child
– Godzillionaire – Diminishing Returns
– Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Vol. 3 – Pembroke Pines, FL 5/2/77
– Huxii – Odds and Ends, But Mostly Ends EP
– jasmine.4.t – You Are the Morning
– Kele – The Singing Winds Pt. 3
– lots of hands – into a pretty room
– Mac Miller – Balloonerism
– Mary Eliza – Spider
– Milk & Bone – Baby Dreamer EP
– Necrodeath – Arimortis
– Niambi – Taboo EP
– Pastel – Souls in Motion
– Pigeon Pit – Crazy Arms
– Rebecca Black – Salvation
– Rose Gray – Louder, Please
– Rufus Wainwright – Dream Requiem
– Son Lux – Risk of Make Believe EP
– Songhoy Blues – Héritage
– Sophie Jamieson – I still want to share
– Steve Hackett (of Genesis) – Live Magic At Trading Boundaries
– Television Personalities – Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – Radio Sessions 1980-1993
– Victoria Canal – Slowly, It Dawns
– Wafia – Promised Land
– The Weather Station – Humanhood
– Willow Avalon – Southern Belle Raisin’ Hell
– Zora – BELLAdonna
January 24, 2009
– Anna B Savage – You and I Are Earth
– Benjamin Booker – Lower
– Bilk – Essex, Drugs and Rock and Roll
– Blue Violet – Faux Animaux
– Brueder Selke & Midori Hirano – Split Scale
– Bumblefoot – Bumblefoot …Returns!
– Cecilia Castleman – Cecilia Castleman
– Central Cee – Can’t Rush Greatness
– Chais Guevara – Goyard Ibn Said
– The Clean – Modern Rock (Vinyl Reissue)
– Dax Riggs – 7 Songs For Spiders
– DITZ – Never Exhale
– Drew & Ellie Holcomb – Memory Bank
– Eric Cannata (of Young the Giant) – Holding Onto the Holy
– Eric Clapton – Meanwhile
– FKA twigs – Eusexua
– flipturn – Burnout Days
– Hannah Wicklund – Live At The Troubadour
– High. – Come Back Down EP
– Iggy Pop – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023
– Jeannie Piersol – The Nest
– John Gilligan – Party of One
– Kane Brown – The High Road
– Kathryn Mohr – Waiting Room
– Larkin Poe – Bloom
– The Locust – The Peel Sessions (Reissue)
– Lucero – Lucero Unplugged
– Luna Morgenstern – heartbreak hotel EP
– Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, and Karine Polwart – Looking For The Thread
– Mogwai – The Bad Fire
– Open Head – What Is Success
– Pet Needs – Kind of Acoustic
– Rose City Band – Sun And Shadow
– Sam Amidon – Salt River
– Slowly Slowly – Forgiving Spree
– Teddy Swims – I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2)
– Thin Lizzy – Acoustic Sessions
– Tunng – Love You All Over Again
– The Veils – Asphodels
– The Verve – This Is Music: The Singles (20th Anniversary Edition)
– The Weeknd – Hurry Up Tomorrow
January 31
– Bonnie “Prince” Billy – The Purple Bird
– Brooke Combe – Dancing at the Edge of the World
– Buckcherry – 15 (Vinyl Reissue)
– Canty – Dim Binge
– Circa Waves – Death & Love Pt. 1
– Cymande – Renascence
– Damon Locks – List of Demands
– Eddie Chacon – Lay Low
– Eterna – Debunker
– Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains – Âge Fleuve
– Geologist & D.S. – A Shaw Deal
– The Gits – Frenching the Bully (Reissue)
– The Hellacopters – Overdriver
– horsegiirL – v.i.p – very important pony EP
– James – James, Live at the Acropolis
– Jaye Jayle – After Alter
– Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, and Steve Vai – G3 Reunion Live
– Johnny Lloyd – Punchline
– Last Train – III
– The Laughing Crimes – Whispers in the Speech Machine
– The Lemonheads – Car Button Cloth (Vinyl Reissue)
– Lilly Hiatt – Forever
– L.S. Dunes – Violet
– Maribou State – Hallucinating Love
– MIKE – Showbiz!
– moe. – Circle of Giants
– N NAO – Nouveau Langage
– Penny & Sparrow – Lefty
– Pentagram – Lightning in a Bottle
– Pentire – Love on TV EP
– Prison – Downstate
– Robert Ascroft – Echo Still Remains
– Steely Dan – Katy Lied (Vinyl Reissue)
February 2025
February 6
– Terra Twin – Static Separation EP
February 7
– Aud Whitson – A House That Can’t Get Quieter EP
– Avalanche Party – Der Traum Über Alles
– Biig Piig – 11:11
– Bjarki – A Guide to Hellthier Lifestyle
– corook – committed to a bit
– Dream Theater – Parasomnia
– Drop Nineteens – 1991
– Ecce Shnak – Shadows Grow Fangs EP
– FACS – Wish Defense
– FVZZ POPVLI – Melting Pop
– George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners – Porter’s Pocket
– Guided By Voices – Universe Room
– Heartworms – Glutton For Punishment
– Helen Ganya – Share Your Care
– HONESTY – U R HERE
– HORSEBATH – Another Farewell
– Inhaler – Open Wide
– James Brandon Lewis Trio – Apple Cores
– Jinjer – Duél
– John Coltrane – A Love Supreme: 60th Anniversary Edition
– JOHNNYSWIM – When The War Is Over
– Lewis Watson – blue skies grey
– Matt Pond PA – The Ballad of the Natural Lines
– Michigander – Michigander
– The Moles – Composition Book
– Mun Sing – Frolic EP
– Nadia Reid – Enter New Brightness
– Obscura – A Sonication
– Oklou – Choke Enough
– Olly Alexander (of Years & Years) – Polari
– The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008 – 2010
– R.O. Shapiro – Worthy EP
– Sarah Klang – Beautiful Woman
– Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
– Skeleten – Mentalized
– Sleeper’s Bell – Clover
– Soar – Amidst the Ruins
– Sonic Youth – Hold That Tiger (Vinyl Reissue)
– Squid – Cowards
– Various Artists – Swept Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
– The Vices – Before It Might Be Gone
– WAR – Live In Japan 1974
– Wilco – A Ghost Is Born (Deluxe Edition)
– Winona Oak – Salt EP
February 12
– Wilder Woods – Curioso
February 14
– Alessia Cara – Love & Hyperbole
– The Altons – Heartache in Room 14
– Art d’Ecco – Serene Demon
– Bartees Strange – Horror
– BLOND:ISH – Never Walk Alone
– Dead American – Attention Deficit
– The Delines – Mr. Luck and Ms. Doom
– Denison Witmer – Anything At All
– Doves – Constellations For The Lonely
– fish narc – frog song
– Horsegirl – Phonetics On and On
– John Glacier – Like A Ribbon
– Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire
– Mallrat – Horses
– Mantar – Post Apocalyptic Depression
– Sailor – La La La
– Mereba – The Breeze Grew a Fire
– Morgan Saint – Out of the Blue
– Oslo Twins – Tresor EP
– Richard Dawson – End of the Middle
– Savage Lands – Army of the Trees
– Shygirl – Club Shy Room 2 EP
– The Velveteers – A Million Knives
– The War and Treaty – Plus One
– WARLUNG – The Poison Touch
– Winona Fighter – My Apologies to the Chef
February 21
– Abdomen – Yes, I Don’t Know
– Anna Shoemaker – Someone Should Stop Her
– Anxious – Bambi
– Baths – Gut
– Basia Bulat – Basia’s Palace
– CHALK – Conditions III EP
– Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee (Physical Release)
– Floodlights – Underneath
– Gaytheist – The Mustache Stays
February 27
– Annie-Dog – 15 EP
– Thirty Curses – Music is a Scam
February 28
– Architects – The Sky, The Earth & All Between
– Banks – Off With Her Head
– bdrmm – Microtonic
– Big Black Delta – ADONAI
– Bonnie Trash – Mourning You
– BRONCO – BRONCO
– Chesney Hawkes – Living Arrows
– The Chills – Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs
– Constant Follower – The Smile You Send Out Returns To You
– Cornelia Murr – Run to the Center
– David Grubbs – Whistle from Above
– The Devil Makes Three – Spirits
– Double Wish – Deeper Ecstasy EP
– Dub Syndicate – Out Here On The Perimeter (1989-1996)
– Edith Frost – In Space
– Eric Bass (of Shinedown) – Eric Bass Presents: I Had A Name
– Everything Is Recorded – Temporary
– HACHIKU – The Joys of Being Pure at Heart
– Hope Tala – Hope Handwritten
– Ichiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures
– Kneecap – Kneecap (Original Soundtrack) (Physical Release)
– LISA – Alter Ego
– Marie Davidson – City of Clowns
– Max Cooper – The Overthinker EP
– Mdou Moctar – Tears of Injustice
– The Men – Buyer Beware
– Miya Folick – Erotica Veronica
– Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
– Polly Paulusma – Wildfires
– Sports Team – Carousel of 21st Century Sins
– Them Coulee Boys – No Fun in the Chrysalis
– The Ting Tings – Home
– Year of the Cobra – Year of the Cobra
March 2025
March 7
– Alter Bridge – One Day Remains (20th Anniversary Edition)
– Arny Margret – I Miss You, I Do
– The Cat Empire – Bird In Paradise
– Clara Mann – Rift
– Destruction – Birth of Malice
– HotWax – Hot Shock
– John Mayall – Second Generation Box Set
– The Lathums – Matter Does Not Define
– Levellers – Levellers Collective / Live
– Mike Farris – The Sound of Muscle Shoals
– Monde UFO – Flamingo Tower
– Rolla – We Owe You Nothing EP
– Rose Betts – There Is No Ship
– SASAMI – On the Silver Screen
– Smith/Kotzen – Black Light / White Noise
– Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea
– The Tubs – Cotton Crown
– Will Stratton – Points of Origin
March 13
– Bambara – Birthmarks
– Coheed and Cambria – The Father of Make Believe
– Courting – Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’.
– Florence + The Machine – Symphony of Lungs (BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall) (Physical Release)
– Ozzy Osbourne – See You on the Other Side V2.0
– Riki Lindhome – No Worries If Not
– Rose Cousins – Conditions of Love – Vol 1
– Slow Readers Club – Out of a Dream
– SOM – Let the Light In
– Steve Reich – Steve Reich Collected Works
– Womb – One Is Always Heading Somewhere
March 20
– Polly Money – T-Shirt Nothing Else EP
March 21
– Barry Hyde (of The Futureheads) – Miners’ Ballads
– Gnod & White Hills – Drop Out III
– The Horrors – Night Life
– James Arthur – Pisces
– The Lilacs – The 395 (To Forever) EP
– Lucette – Nice Girl From the Suburbs
– Ora the Molecule – Dance Therapy
– Tamino – Every Dawn’s a Mountain
– Tommy Emmanuel – Live at Sydney Opera House
March 28
– Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty
– Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
– Memphis May Fire – Shapeshifter
– Serebii – Dime
– Sick Puppies – Wave the Bull
– Somebody’s Child – When Youth Fades Away
April 2025
April 4
– Bleed From Within – Zenith
– DJ Koze – Music Can Hear Us
– Luna Kills – Deathmatch
– Panchiko – Ginkgo
– Penelope Trappes – A Requiem
– Soul Coughing – Live 2024
– Yann Tiersen – Rathlin from a Distance | The Liquid Hour
April 11
– Bootsy Collins – Album of the Year #1 Funkateer
– Cabal – Everything Rots
– Marathon – Fading Image
– Various Artists – Chet Baker Re:imagined
April 25
– Prima Queen – The Prize
– Society of Villains – Good & Evil EP
May 2025
May 2
– The Farm – Let The Music (Take Control)
– L E M F R E C E C K – We’ve Been Here EP
May 16
– Bury Tomorrow – Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience
May 21
– Lana Del Rey – The Right Person Will Stay
