I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post includes blurbs on Rivals, The Beach Boys, Audioslave, The Leaving, Beatrix, and Couch.
- It won’t be long now. Before David Tennant, Alex Hassell, Aidan Turner, Nafessa Williams and Bella Maclean return to the Cotswalds, relive all the steaminess of season one. Ahead of the highly anticipated second season of the Emmy and BAFTA award-winning “Rivals,” Hulu has released a new recap featurette.
- Widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds redefined what an album could be upon its release on May 16, 1966, forever altering the course of popular music. Sixty years on, it remains as vital and influential as ever. Ahead of the release of The Pet Sounds Sessions Highlights, a sonic exploration into the making of Pet Sounds that’s being released on May 15 in celebration of Pet Sounds’ 60th anniversary, The Beach Boys have shared a new three-track digital EP showcasing their classic track, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” offering a deeper preview of the Sessions collections. Available today, the EP presents the song in three distinct forms— Vocals Only, Stereo Back Track, and Stereo Mix—revealing the intricate vocal arrangements, masterful studio craftsmanship, and emotional depth that define Pet Sounds. Pre-order Pet Sounds 60th anniversary releases: https://beachboys.lnk.to/
- UMe announces the first-ever vinyl pressing of iconic 3x-GRAMMY® Award-nominated rock band Audioslave’s second full-length album, Out Of Exile, available on June 12, 2026. Pre-order HERE. The group united the iconic voice and songwriting of Chris Cornell with the explosive, genre-defining sound of Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk —forming an undeniable force that helped define 21st-century rock. For this new reissue, Levi Seitz of Black Belt Mastering has remastered the original Out Of Exile. It will be available in two configurations: a standard 180g Black Vinyl edition and a limited edition D2C Black Liquid Vinyl pressing inspired by the album’s cover art, housed in a die-cut gatefold jacket designed to showcase the disc.
- The Leaving today release their eagerly anticipated debut album, Ultimate Buzz here, available digitally and on vinyl via Avenue A / Futures ✦ / Virgin Records. Alongside the record, they release a new single, album highlight “Atmosphere” here. Listen / download Ultimate Buzz Vinyl available via Diggers Factory The Leaving is a new band formed by Martin Doherty and Jonny Scott, longtime friends, collaborators and LA-based expats of the Glaswegian music scene as multi-instrumentalists, songwriters and producers with CHVRCHES, The Twilight Sad, Aerogramme, Mogwai and Idlewild, amongst others.
- Beatrix releases her sophomore album We Swallowed The Sky via Nice Life Recording Company. Arielle Kasnetz, the LA-based singer-songwriter who goes by the moniker Beatrix, had to discover her own voice. For most of her life, she trained in classical music, spending hours practicing vocal scales and learning piano pieces. But the stories she told weren’t hers, the words and the feelings somebody else’s who had lived a long time ago. It wasn’t until the pandemic, stuck in her bedroom with an acoustic guitar that someone had gifted to her a few birthdays ago, that she began to try writing for herself. Now, on her new album, she moves further into the recesses of her history, exploring a formative relationship from her past and the reverberations that it left. It’s the sound of a songwriter as committed to honesty and self-exploration as to constant musical progression.
- Boston’s breakout band Couch returned home this week to mark a defining hometown moment—headlining the Boston Marathon’s Official Afterparty on Patriots’ Day and launching the return of their annual Earth Day partnership with local nonprofit Mass Audubon—combining a celebration of the city with a renewed commitment to giving back. The performance followed the band’s 40-city international headline tour in support of their debut album Big Talk, which took them across the U.S. and Europe and marked a breakout stretch that included their national television debut on CBS and a historic sold-out show at Roadrunner—making Couch the first fully self-managed, independent band to do so at the 3,500-capacity venue. LISTEN: Big Talk
