Best New Music Released in August 2026: 100+ New Songs

August brought a seriously good batch of new music, and this month’s Press Play rounds up more than 100 new songs that caught our attention. From indie and alternative standouts to underground discoveries, electronic experiments, and genre-blurring pop, the month’s releases include new music from Danielle Ponder, The Avalanches featuring Portraits of Tracy, Overmono, Death Valley Girls, Karen Dio, Hether, Fujiya & Miyagi, Gliiico, Babebee, Girl Tones, Fontaines D.C., Getdown Services, Lucy Frost, Angèle, Haute & Freddy, Sweeping Promises, and plenty more. As always, we’ve dug through the month’s new releases to bring you the artists and songs we think are worth pressing play on.

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Best New Music Released in August 2026

Danielle Ponder — “Sun and Moon”
The Avalanches, Portraits Of Tracy — “Can’t Get Over Losing You (feat. Portraits Of Tracy)”
Death Valley Girls — “Message From the Venus Flower”
The Violet Mindfield — “Mojo Hand”
Overmono — “After The Rain”
Wine Lips — “If You Don’t Know”
Girl Ultra, Buscabulla, Chromeo — “Mentirasmentiras”
Arlo Parks, John Glacier — “Floette ft. John Glacier”
RØZ, Peso Pluma — “DAYTONA”
June McDoom — “Without You”
DIIV — “The Fountain”
Patriarchy — “Servile”
Freak Slug — “If I Could”
Amindi — “fr this time”
Emma Zander — “Ma Chérie Girl”
Carver Jones — “LAST CIGARETTE”
Solana, Killertunes — “Okunkun”
Clyde the Band — “high”
Elise Elvira — “One Life To Give”
Susannah Joffe — “End of the World”
Reuben And The Dark — “Send Me Thunder”
Ravyn Lenae — “In & Out”
Dina Summer, Local Suicide, Kalipo — “Rat Race”
Wavves, Say Anything — “Still Alive”
Pixel Grip — “Jealousy Is Lethal (A Thousand Mad Things Remix)”
Lia Braswell — “If Not for the Chaos”
Fujiya & Miyagi — “Lowest Common Denominator”
The Womack Sisters — “Monster”
Babebee, blissfully — “Milo”
True Blue — “Proof Shes Picked Her Poison”
Blood Red Shoes — “Don’t Say A Word”
DRAMA — “DRAMA club: Noche”
Girl Tones — “Pretty Face”
Current Joys — “HOLE”
Fontaines D.C. — “Marianne”
PVA — “Enough (Dream Edition)”
Pretty Sick — “Hyper Independence”
Wasia Project — “Vogue”
Beck — “Disappearing Act”
Hermanos Gutiérrez — “Los Andes”
Shygirl — “Alyse”
Getdown Services — “Probiotic”
N8NOFACE — “I Hope It’s Ok”
Bloc Party — “Pigwig”
beabadoobee — “Memories”
RIVER — “City of thirst”
Karen Dió — “Choke”
Olivia Rodrigo — “serena joy”
Hether, Earslime — “Desol”
The Black Tones, Death Valley Girls — “Troublemaker”
Sea Gloss — “What a Waste”
Lucy Frost — “Morphine”
Hether, Earslime — “Amor Deus”
THAO, Neko Case — “Catch As Catch Can”
Balu Brigada — “BedHead”
Westside Cowboy — “Worried Age”
Black Marble — “Get Back Up”
Andy Shauf — “losing”
Chelsea Wolfe — “Humours”
Angèle — “Une seule vie”
Haute & Freddy — “Touch Touch”
The Linda Lindas — “High Horse”
Alabama Shakes — “Time”
The Drums, Ledbyher — “Yes&No”
BINA. — “The Art of Anger”
Erykah Badu, The Alchemist, Kamasi Washington — “Black Box – feat. Kamasi Washington”
Gliiico — “Spot”
Open Mike Eagle, Kenny Segal, billy woods — “She Swear I’m Colorblind (feat. billy woods)”
Sweeping Promises — “Does He Want To Be The Weatherman?”
Jungle — “Sunshine”
DOMi & JD BECK — “ÉPiPHANiE”
Mike D — “Here We Are”
Merryn Jeann, Steve Spacek — “Amateur Radio Postcard – Steve Spacek Dub”
Saul Williams, Jimetta Rose, Jowee Omicil — “The Dagger”
AWOL One, Nick Andre, Lyrics Born — “Dope Shit”
La Zorra Zapata — “Échame a Mí la Culpa”
This is a Revolver — “Happy People Have White Teeth”
Push-Up Bra LA, spill tab — “Hold Me – Push-Up Bra LA Sessions”
Chinese American Bear — “Dance Dance Dance (跳舞跳舞跳舞)”
Nick Ward, Glenn Gould — “Piano (feat. Glenn Gould)”
Orca — “Dove”
Alabama Shakes — “Tea Time”
Kate Bollinger — “Shop Girl”
CARLI — “ADRENALIN”
Empress Of — “HandsOn”
The Black Tones — “Bombs”
Lex Walton — “Hipster Runoff”
Mia Moretti, Blakkat, Vonita White — “Everybody”
Boy Harsher — “Tough Luck (When You Don’t Call)”
Wine Lips — “Head On Backwards”
Elliott Skinner, Jensen McRae — “THAT KID”
Victoria Bigelow — “Naked on the Floor”
Dexter Story, Sudan Archives, Kamasi Washington — “Mama”
Superfan — “In the Gold Room”
Erykah Badu, The Alchemist, Thundercat — “They Ain’t You – feat. Thundercat”
Saint Levant — “RAYIH WEIN? / رايح وين؟”
Patriarchy — “Hate Fuck”
Olive Jones — “Summer Rain – Rework”
Dominic Fike — “Wallflower”
Turnstile, Chanel Beads — “DULL: CHANEL BEADS VERSION”
Greg Freeman — “Cahokia”
Now Always Fades, Alias Error — “Faithless”
JVLY — “STILL DROWNING IN MY ROOM”
Wasia Project, Gerd Janson — “Vogue – Gerd Janson Remix”
Grandmas House — “Baby You’re A Winner”