Here’s a roundup of the latest music that just dropped (and what’s coming next)!
Carsie Blanton: Little Flame
“There’s nothing about this I don’t like, except all the reasons it had to be written.” Heartbreaking and reflective, Little Flame is a bittersweet song about keeping hope alive amid injustice. Featuring Ye Vagabonds and the artist’s prison buddy Rana Hamida, Little Flame is as much a cinematic experience as a stirring anthem. The music video features ‘It’s In Our Power’, a 1970 Soviet animation.
Don’t miss Carsie Blanton at HI-FI on May 20th. GET TICKETS
The Nude Party: Honey for the Barflies
The Nude Party today shared their new single “Honey for the Barflies,” a swaggering anthem premiering at Under the Radar and offering a preview of the band’s forthcoming new album Look Who’s Back, out February 13th, 2026.
“A bartender friend of mine was describing the older gentlemen who come into the bar day after day looking to talk to her. She had become exasperated by the constant attention and blurted out ‘I just feel like honey for barflies,’” the band’s Patton Magee explains of the song’s origins. “I thought that was a clever little phrase and started brewing on the idea–taking it from the perspective of a regular who sees himself as somehow separate from the other regulars (as we all naturally do).”
Don’t miss The Nude Party at HI-FI on April 17th. GET TICKETS
Matt Pryor: Union Transfer
Matt Pryor (from The Get Up Kids) shared his latest single, “Union Transfer,” the cathartic finale from his new solo album The Salton Sea, out this Friday via Nightshoes Syndicate/Big Scary Monsters. “This is the most vulnerable song I’ve ever written. It marks the place and date of where I hit rock bottom,” Pryor explains.
Don’t miss Matt Pryor at HI-FI on April 16th. GET TICKETS
redveil: sankofa
21-year-old musical savant redveil releases his new album sankofa. His fourth studio album draws its name from a Ghanaian proverb meaning “it is not taboo to go back for what you have forgotten”, which he embodies in a painstakingly clear, tender album of love, regret and reflection. The album fulfills his desire for clarity by laying his experiences bare on these songs, informed by his own relationship to religion and his family history.
Don’t miss redveil at HI-FI on March 4th. GET TICKETS
Meet Me @ The Altar: Worried Sick
Critically acclaimed rock group Meet Me @ The Altar have returned with new EP WORRIED SICK. The six-song collection arrives alongside an official music video for focus track “Dead to Me” and kicks off a new chapter for the band after going independent and announcing the departure of guitarist Téa Campbell earlier this year. After a year of change, the WORRIED SICK EP arrives as a cathartic, reflective body of work that finds the band reenergized and returning to their easycore roots.
Don’t miss Meet Me @ The Altar at HI-FI on Feb. 4th. GET TICKETS
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