18 New – A flood of releases hits Tuesday, June 23, 2026, from Brennan Wedl’s debut-era single “Pretty Little Fantasy” to Hew’s debut album opener “Lie In It,” plus major album and EP rollouts across indie, alt, and emo.
On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, music arrives in a rush—18 new tracks that feel like they’re competing for your attention. Some are built for a first listen, some take time to settle in, and a few carry lyrics that sound like they were written with the world already changing underneath them.
Brennan Wedl opens the pile with “Pretty Little Fantasy.” Wedl has announced her self-titled debut album. produced by Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield and Brad Cook. It arrives August 21 and features contributions from Snail Mail, Colin Croom, and Matt McCaughan. The single is led by an idea Wedl has been circling: “The archetype of Daddy is something I’ve been searching for all my life. but turns out. the daddy I’ve been looking for has been me all along. ” she said in a statement. “Be your own daddy.”.
This Is Lorelei’s new release is “Billy Came Back. ” the lead single from their new album. The Singer in My Band. The band explained that “‘Billy Came Back’ stewed for months before I picked up a guitar to work it out — I kept forgetting about it but it always came back. ” with finishing the song described as “the only way to get it to leave me alone.”.
If you want a different kind of momentum, Tame Impala’s “Hummer” lands as a Smashing Pumpkins cover. Sumerian Records is marking the 30th anniversary of Smashing Pumpkins’ debut album. Gish. with a new tribute album that includes Alice Glass. Nita Strauss. Yonaka. Des Rocs. Meg Myers. Between the Buried and Me. and more. The first single comes from the tribute’s most high-profile contributor—Tame Impala—offering his immersive take on “Hummer” from Siamese Dream.
Julia Holter follows with “Fantasy. ” part of a wider release: she’s following up Something In the Room She Moves with a companion LP called Materia. led by the transportive single “Fantasy.” Holter said the song’s apparent ease hides a long build—“This song of seeming willful abandon was somehow the most laborious undertaking of the entire record — it took over a year and went through various transformations — and I love that contradiction.” She described it as dancey and “like a kind of conjuring. ” while also grounding it in a sharper fear: “And amidst the momentum of reverie. there’s the line ‘blink at the light and hope to survive. ’ because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too. I was trying to find the right sanguine tempo.”.
Chelsea Wolfe has two new songs out now: “The Dark” and “Death is Not the End.” It’s her first new music since 2024’s She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She. The tracks are described as starkly alluring, with careful space around them. “Death is Not the End” features guitarist Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails) and drummer Matt Chamberlain (Tori Amos. Fiona Apple). while “The Dark” features drummer Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint. Courtney Barnett) and bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Air. Beck). A press release says the pair serve as the first glimpse of Wolfe’s ninth studio album.
Jim James contributes “Come Again,” announcing his first solo album in eight years, Wowed Out. The kaleidoscopic single is explained as coming from discouragement—“feeling discouraged by how much things are changing in directions I don’t agree with”—paired with a stubborn refusal to stop: “but trying to remember that there’s still so much beauty to be experienced.” James adds. “You’ve got to just keep going and keep trying again and again and again to find joy.”.
Other releases today tilt toward the intimate and the spectral. Emily A. Sprague, known through Florist, has “Sing To,” the hushed, spectral new single from her album Cyano, arriving October 12. It follows last month’s “Double Moon,” and it’s paired with a video from director V Haddad.
Yard Act’s “New Beginnings” comes as the second single from their upcoming album. You’re Gonna Need A Little Music. It follows lead single “Redeemer,” described as a much loftier track. Vocalist James Smith framed the new song as counterweight: “‘New Beginnings’ is a bit of light to counteract the dark we led with. ” he said. “Sometimes we’ve already shed our old skin without even realising it’s happening. Celebrate the new, because you can’t go back.”.
Swapmeet shares “Halfway,” a preview of their debut album, paired with a Mayah Slayter-directed video. The track is described as luminous and naturally liminal.
Frost Children have announced an EP called Tweaker Poem. arriving July 10. and shared the exuberant “Satellites.” Angel Prost tied the recording approach to aftermath and isolation: “After dealing with a horrifying stalker in NYC we wanted to self-isolate and make a short project in one sitting fueled by sleep deprivation and discomfort. ” Prost said. “The songs on the EP are tracklisted in the order we made them, from morning until the next morning.”.
Fiddlehead releases “Baby I’ll Change,” announcing a new EP called Baby I’ll Change this Friday. Producer Alex Farrar worked on the record, which is led by the strikingly vulnerable title track, and it arrives with a video directed by guitarist Alex Henery.
The Tubs have a new jangly single, “Who’s Gonna Love You Now?” today, after signing to Merge Records. The band has announced their third LP, Hard Life, arriving September 11. In a press release. Owen Williams describes the record as combining his familiar persona—“navel gazing about romantic abjection. London squalor. and the indignities of grief and OCD”—with a second voice that “doesn’t have much time for the first. often haranguing him for his self-indulgence and immaturity; sometimes fairly. sometimes unfairly.”.
Frankie Rose’s “Can’t Be Wrong” leads her new album, Hila, arriving September 18. The Love As Projection follow-up is described as self-produced, with contributions from drummer Justin Welch (Elastica/Lush).
Quadeca releases “Baby Steps,” wrestling with what it means “to bring a child into a world that feels like it’s ending.” The accompanying video was directed by Quadeca and longtime collaborator Brendon Burton.
From Houston, Texas, emo band Hew announces their debut album, Your Version, out in July, and leads it with “Lie In It.”
Maripool’s “Crossing” comes from the project of Lisbon-born, London-based singer-songwriter Natacha Simões. Her debut album Rotten Luck drops August 28. with “Crossing” described as breezily hypnotic and about her “favorite memories as a kid… whenever I crossed that bridge [between Lisbon and Almada] with my parents on a hot summer day.”.
Diary’s latest single is “Keep Comin’,” a classically fuzzy track from New York-based five-piece Diary’s debut full-length, Spiral Bound, due September 4 via Kanine Records. It follows lead cut “Keep Comin’ Up.”
All together. the day’s releases read less like a playlist and more like a snapshot of where people are putting their attention right now—toward reinvention. endurance. grief. desire. and the desire to keep moving anyway. Each track comes with its own weather system. but the through-line is unmistakable: no one’s waiting for the perfect moment to make something new.
If you’re trying to follow everything coming out all the time, start here—then keep pressing play. The best of these new tracks are set to be added to MISRYOUM’s Best New Songs playlist.
new songs June 23 2026 Brennan Wedl Pretty Little Fantasy This Is Lorelei Billy Came Back Tame Impala Hummer Julia Holter Fantasy Chelsea Wolfe The Dark Jim James Come Again Emily A. Sprague Sing To Yard Act New Beginnings Swapmeet Halfway Frost Children Satellites Fiddlehead Baby I’ll Change The Tubs Who’s Gonna Love You Now Frankie Rose Can’t Be Wrong Quadeca Baby Steps Hew Lie In It Maripool Crossing Diary Keep Comin’ Up Spiral Bound