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June 27, 2026

• horsegiirL: NATURE IS HEALING Album Review | Gigshack | www.gigshack.co.uk
A review of the album NATURE IS HEALING by horsegiirL. Very few musicians have built a career on absurdity and ridiculousness the way horsegiirL has. The first ever horse-human hybrid DJ is back on our screens and blessing our ears with her high energy techno debut album. After blowing up and going viral on TikTok by streaming her upbeat track, ‘My Barn, My Rules’ providing horse facts, catchy lyrics and electronic beats while wearing a horse mask. ....

• Midland - Stages | Spindizzy
With their fifth studio album, Stages, released via Blue Highway Records, GRAMMY-nominated traditional country revivalists Midland deliver a collection shaped by vivid storytelling and the miles travelled throughout their career. Rooted in Southwestern influence, Stages reinforces the signature sound that helped establ

• “Love & Tears”, la belle épopée pop de Gener8ion | Les Inrocks
Pensé par le producteur electro Surkin et le réalisateur Romain Gavras comme une œuvre audiovisuelle, “Love & Tears” est surtout un premier album galvanisant, resserré autour d’un principe redoutable : allier désordre et harmonie dans des pop songs à l’efficacité immédiate.

• Sublime: Until the Sun Explodes | Pitchfork
Read Sadie Sartini Garner’s review of the album.

• Boys Do Cry: Das neue Album von GENER8ION | fm4.ORF.at
GENER8ION veröffentlichen ihr Album „Love & Tears“.

• ALBUM REVIEW The Power of EI8HT: SHINEDOWN Continues It's Reign Over Modern Rock | Sound Fury Magazine
We've got your Album Reviews all right here... 

• Cardi B Offers Surprising Response After Latto Confirms Dissing Her On New Album | HotNewHipHop
Cardi B takes the high road after Latto confirms that she took some shots on her new album "Big Mama" over a leaked call.

• How Being Unable to License an 'A Walk to Remember' Song Inspired Hayley Kiyoko to Make 'Girls Like Girls' Album (Exclusive) | PEOPLE.com
In an interview with PEOPLE, Hayley Kiyoko spoke about how being unable to license a song from 'A Walk to Remember' inspired her to make a 'Girls Like Girls' album.

• Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love’ Holds Court Atop U.K. Chart for Second Week | Billboard | June 26, 2026, 5 p.m.
Olivia Rodrigo lands her second consecutive week at No. 1 on the U.K.'s Official Albums Chart with 'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.'

• Ultimo con il nuovo album IL GIORNO CHE ASPETTAVO vola al comando della classifica settimanale FIMI | SMS News Quotidiano | June 26, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
Ultimo con il nuovo album IL GIORNO CHE ASPETTAVO, pubblicato sotto etichetta indipendente  Ultimo Records, vola al comando della classifica settimanale FIMI/NIQ. Tra i brani pop più ascoltati sull…

• Kase.O apuesta por la victoria en la “batalla creativa” contra la IA: "El arte es una búsqueda humana” | La Revuelta | RTVE.es | June 26, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
Kase.O apuesta por la victoria en la “batalla creativa” contra la IA: "El arte es una búsqueda humana” | La Revuelta

• In defence of bad taste: Kim Petras on her ‘debut’ album Detour | EE72 | June 26, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
Kim Petras on why her seventh album is her self-proclaimed debut, and how embracing bad taste alongside a cohort of anti-pop artists made for tunes you can’t help but lose yourself to.

• Morocco: ElGrandeToto expands ‘SALGOAT Vol. 2’ with extended edition, new international collabos | Music In Africa | June 26, 2026, 9:36 a.m.
Moroccan rapper ElGrandeToto has released SALGOAT Vol. 2 (Extension), an expanded version of his fourth studio album following its Top 10 global album debut on Spotify.

• Ultimo bets Il Giorno Che Aspettavo proves Italian pop doesn’t need a pivot | Martin Cid Magazine | June 25, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Nicolò Moriconi’s new studio album arrives with ten songs and no interest in softening his voice for an international market that’s been watching him. The quest

• Kim Petras loves 'giving the middle finger to conservatives' in music—and PrEP! | Out Magazine | June 25, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
The trans icon talks up with MISTR to advocate for sexual health and her new album Detour.

• Did We Need A Gen Z Rivers Cuomo? | Stereogum | June 24, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
Malcolm Todd's 'Do That Again,' reviewed. Plus: the best pop tracks of the month.

• Hayley Kiyoko Turned Her Teenage Pain Into a Sapphic Success | New York Times | June 21, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
The once-closeted star has reinvented her song “Girls Like Girls” as a best-selling Y.A. novel and a new theatrical film. It wasn’t easy.

• Is Country Music Going Yacht Rock? Keith Urban's New Album Suggests Something's Afloat | Rolling Stone Australia | June 14, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
Is country music going yacht rock? Keith Urban's new album 'Flow State' is the latest example of smooth sounds in Nashville.

• Dirty Heads realease new album ‘7 Seas’, Wasted Attitude | Wasted Attitude | June 13, 2026, 3:05 a.m.
Southern California's favorite sons, the RIAA Platinum-Certified band Dirty Heads, are pleased to release their ninth full-length album, '7 Seas', today,...

• ANOTR release third album 'Withness' with biggest single of 2026 | We Rave You | June 12, 2026, 10:37 a.m.
ANOTR release their third album 'Withness' on No Art on the back of 'Talk To You' ft. 54 Ultra - the biggest dance breakout single of 2026.

• Mon Laferte: Una conversación con la femme fatale de la música y su nuevo álbum, ya disponible | Latino USA | June 12, 2026, 10 a.m.
La cantautora chilena hable sobre el feminismo, su nuevo álbum y lo que la inspira en su activismo.

• Lane 8 Returns with Highly Anticipated Collaborative Album 'Cross Pollination II' | CULTR | June 12, 2026, 1:30 a.m.
Deep and progressive house heavyweight Lane 8, the moniker of American producer Daniel Goldstein, has officially released his highly anticipated collaborative album, Cross Pollination II. The expansive 14-track project is out now via his flagship imprint, This Never Happened. Serving as the direct successor to 2020’s critically acclaimed Cross Pollination, the new LP builds upon […]