New to the Airwaves – Albums Out This Week (August 29th)

New music (August 2025)

My personal calendar is a conglomerate of nearly every genre of music, festival, and comedy special that a decade ago I would have dreamed would be my life. Welcome to the exhausting, end of outdoor concert season on the horizon. What a hot and sweaty summer it’s been. New albums mean new things to promote. Let’s see which band has something new for you this week. In these tiny moments I get to hear new music that gets my heart revving, this week’s contenders were hard to narrow down, but a few are…

🎧 Happy Music – End-of-Summer Edition! 🌇 The sun may be setting on summer, but the music scene is just heating up. As we shift from open-air festivals to the cozy chaos of indoor venues, this week’s album drops are the perfect soundtrack for love, laughter, and late-night dancing in your kitchen.

Whether you’re prepping for a Labor Day weekend road trip or just vibing through the last golden rays of August, these new releases are here to stir your soul and shake your speakers.

🔥 ALBUM RELEASE CALENDAR – August 29, 2025 Highlights Here’s what’s spinning this week across genres—from heart-thumping rock to introspective country and genre-bending alt-pop:

Album releases for August 29, 2025

🎵 Top Album Releases – August 29, 2025

(Artist – Album – Label)

AJR – What No One’s Thinking
Alexis Arai – Holy Forever (Capitol)
Anna Tivel – Animal Poem (Fluff & Gravy)
Aodhán King & Abbie Gamboa – Throwing Paint (Capitol)
Aria Lanelle – The Quiet Parts Out Loud
Årabrot – Rite Of Dionysus (Pelagic)
Asymmetric Universe – A Memory And What Came After (InsideOut)
Balu Brigada – Portal
Beaches – No Hard Feelings (AWAL Recordings)
Belinda Carlisle – Once Upon A Time In California (Edsel / Demon Music Group)
Big Wild – Wild Child
Billie Marten – Dog Eared
BLVRS – WORSHIPOP EP (Independent)
Blood Orange – Essex Honey (RCA)
Brad Mehldau – Ride Into The Sun Ride Into The Sun
CAIN feat. Brooke Ligertwood – Jesus Lifted Me (Provident)
Chance Peña – When I Change My Mind I Don’t Mean It
Ché Noir & The Other Guys – No Validation (0/8)
Christian McBride Big Band – Without Further Ado, Vol. 1
CMAT – Euro-Country (AWAL)
Colbie Caillat – This Time Around
DAGames – FlashDrive: SSD
Darker Half – Book Of Fate (Massacre)
Deceased – March Of The Cadavers – 40 Years Of Death Metal From The Grave (Hells Headbangers)
Deep Purple – Rapture Of The Deep 20th Anniversary Remix (earMusic)
Dustin Starks – It Is What It Is (Single) (Independent)
Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke – Pareidolia (Drag City)
Erykah Badu & The Alchemist – Abi & Alan (Control Freaq)
Ezra Worship Initiative – All Is Mine (Single) (NRT Music)
Flyte – Between You And Me
Gable Price and Friends – Human Point of View (Single) (Capitol)
Ganser – Animal Hospital (Felte)
Good Things Collective – House of Praise (Single) (Real Fun Records)
Google Earth, James Riotto & John Vanderslice – For Mac OS X 10.11 (Tiny Telephone)
Grace Graber feat. Audiophile – Everything You Ever Wanted (Single) (Wings)
Gulp – Beneath Strawberry Moons
Have Mercy – The Loneliest Place I’ve Ever Been
Headless – Transitional Objects (M-Theory)
Helloween – Giants And Monsters (Reigning Phoenix)
IDLES, Rob Simonsen & Caught Stealing Movie – Caught Stealing (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Ihlo – Legacy (Kscope)
Influence Music – Look At What The Lord Has Done (Single) (Capitol)
In Mourning – The Immortal
Jack Garratt – Pillars
Jehnny Beth – You Heartbreaker, You (Fiction)
Jenn Chenoweth – Out To Get Me EP (Indie)
Joey Bada$$ – Lonely At The Top
Jonathan McReynolds feat. Jamal Roberts – STILL (Single) (Capitol)
Kingdom Of Giants – Burning Chrome EP (SharpTone)
Lucy Loone – King Cookie
LWO – Good For You (Single) (Independent)
Manegarm – Edsvuren (Napalm)
Margo Price – Hard Headed Woman
Miles Minnick – Via Dolorosa (Independent)
Modern Nature – The Heat Wraps
NGHTMRE – MINDFULL
NONAH – Center of Attention (Single) (Independent)
Nova Twins – Parasites & Butterflies
Paul and Hannah McClure – After Your Heart (Live) (Bethel Music)
Pearly Drops – The Voices Are Coming Back
Pinkshift – Earthkeeper (Hopeless)
Proscription – Desolate Divine (Dark Descent)
Riley Green – Don’t Mind If I Do (Deluxe)
Rising Steel – Legion Of The Grave (Frontiers)
Rodney Crowell – Airline Highway
Ron Sexsmith – Hangover Terrace
Runnner – A Welcome Kind of Weakness
Sabrina Carpenter – Man’s Best Friend
Slow Crush – Thirst
Sowulo – Niht (Season Of Mist)
Sweet Freedom – Blind Leading The Blind (Frontiers)
Tauren Wells feat. gio, Elevation Rhythm – Let The Church Sing (Single) (Capitol)
ThxSoMch – The Sound Of You Laughing (Atlantic)
Three Days Grace – Alienation
TOPS – Bury The Key
Travis Cottrell – Victory In Jesus: Hymns of the Gettys V2 (PraiseCharts)
TTSSFU – Blown
The Beaches – No Hard Feelings
The Beths – Straight Line Was a Lie (Anti-)
The Hives – The Hives Forever Forever The Hives (Play It Again Sam)
Uboa & Whitehorse – The Dissolution of Eternity
Unen – Forever Winter (Frontiers)
VOUS Worship – Dying To Be Different: Stripped (Capitol)
Water from Your Eyes – It’s A Beautiful Place
Wolf Alice – The Clearing
Wucan – Axioms (Long Branch)
Zach Top – Ain’t It For My Health
ZOE Music – LIKE YOU DO (Single) (Capitol)

🎧 Top 10 New Singles – Week of August 29, 2025

Song Title	Artist(s)	Genre
“Golden”	Huntr/x: Ejae, Audrey Nuna & Rei Ami	Alt-Pop / K-Pop Fusion
“Love Me Not”	Ravyn Lenae	R&B / Neo-Soul
“Soda Pop”	Saja Boys: Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo & Samuil Lee	K-Pop / Hip-Hop
“The Subway”	Chappell Roan	Indie Pop / Synth
“Outside”	Cardi B	Hip-Hop
“What Did I Miss?”	Drake	Rap / Melodic Trap
“Daisies”	Justin Bieber	Pop
“Manchild”	Sabrina Carpenter	Pop / Alt-Pop
“Your Idol”	Saja Boys	K-Pop / R&B
“What I Want”	Morgan Wallen ft. Tate McRae	Country Pop

💿 Playlist Picks for the Week Here’s your starter pack for the weekend:

“Manchild” – Sabrina Carpenter
“Butterflies” – Nova Twins
“Hardheaded Woman” – Margo Price
“Greetings From Your Hometown” – Jonas Brothers
“Lost Americana” – mgk
“EVOLUTION” – RomancePlanet

💬 What album are you most hyped for? Are you leaning into heartbreak pop or diving headfirst into prog-metal madness? Drop your pick in the comments and let’s build the ultimate end-of-summer playlist together.

**All dates are for U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Dates are subject to change.