Don’t Miss New Albums From Molly Tuttle, Cass McCombs, Chance The Rapper & More

Molly Tuttle released a new album, So Long Miss Sunshine, today via Nonesuch Records. The guitarist’s fifth full-length album was recorded in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce. Tuttle wrote the bulk of the album with her partner, Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor, who also played banjo, fiddle and harmonica and sings on So Long Miss Sunshine. The tracklist consists of 11 originals and one cover — Icona Pop and Charli XCX’s “I Love It.” Along with Joyce on multiple instruments, the album was recorded with bassist Byron House and drummers Jay Bellerose and Fred Eltringham.

“I’ve been wanting to make this record for such a long time,” Tuttle said. “Part of me was scared to do such a big departure, and that went into the album title … [she thought] ‘You know what? I’m just not going to care what people think. I’m going to do what I want.’”

Cass McCombs made available his new album entitled Interior Live Oak, through Domino. The singer-songwriter’s 11th album was inspired by his return to Domino, 2024 reissue series, and the archival album Seed Cake On Leap Year, to work with some of his earliest Bay Area-based collaborators. Contributors to Interior Live Oak, whose title comes from a Northern California-native tree species, include Jason Quever of Papercuts and Chris Cohen. McCombs recorded parts of Interior Live Oak in New York City with regular cohorts, again working with guitarists Matt Sweeney and Mike Bones.

Chance the Rapper released a new album, Star Line. Chance worked with longtime producer DexLvL on the new album. The Chicago-native previewed Star Line with the single, “Tree.” The song interpolates India.Arie’s “Video” and features rappers Lil Wayne and Smino. Additional guests featured on Star Line include Jay Electronica, Jazmine Sullivan, Jamila Woods, BJ The Chicago Kid, Vic Mensa, Joey Bada$$, Young Thug, BabyChiefDoit, Do or Die, TiaCorine and Lion Babe.

Marissa Nadler shared her new album entitled New Radiations today through Sacred Bones. The singer-songwriter produced her 10th full-length release, which follows her 2021 album The Path Of The Clouds and its 2022 companion EP, The Wrath Of The Clouds. Recording sessions took place in Nashville at Haptown Studios with assistance from Roger Moutenot and at Nadler’s home studio. While her recent albums featured several guests, New Radiations sees Nadler joined only by her frequent collaborator, Milky Burgess, on guitar and synthesizers.

“My narrator (whether these are first-person songs or not, really depends on how you want to listen to them) is feeling stuck, depressed, and frozen in a world after a tough few years for the world,” Nadler said of the album’s title track. “Regardless, the ‘psychic vibrations and new radiations’ take their toll. The cosmic darkness we live in creeps into the psyche — but the character reaches clarity. As the song unfolds, the screen shatters, the ice breaks, and a new world begins.”

Ain’t No Damn Way! is the newly released Kaytranada album, announced earlier this week and arriving today via RCA Records. The musician’s fourth album follows his 2024 LP, Timeless. Kaytranada, who will tour this fall with Justice, previewed the new record with the single “Space Invader.” The final track, “Do It! (Again!)” features TLC.

Singer-songwriter Steve Gunn ditched the “singer” moniker for his new album, Music For Writers, which came out today on Three Lobed Recordings. The guitarist drafted the statement below regarding the intention behind Music For Writers:

Music For Writers is a wordless collection of pieces meant to accompany thought and inspire another way. It is music made in both stillness and motion, music that listens as much as it speaks. Each track offers a space — open, textured, often slow-moving—where ideas, images, and feelings drift in and out. It’s a record I’ve been thinking about and wanting to make for a long time – my first solo instrumental album.

The album was recorded across places — Brooklyn, Berlin, Latvia — using a minimal setup: guitar, synthesizers, field recordings, and the rooms themselves. The compositions are both structured and improvised, emerging from a process of close attention. Rather than telling a story, they respond to the light in a room, the weather outside, a moment of silence in a long day.

Music For Writers is rooted in a deep need to pause, to reflect. It came from walking without direction, from listening to birds and distant engines, looking at sculpture, watching movement through a window, from writing freely in notebooks and letting sound follow thought. The music is a quiet watching of the world, both beautiful and uncertain. It is shaped by landscape, by anxiety, by peace, the unknown, by the tension between presence and movement.

These pieces are small environments, places to enter and leave as needed. Some are brief and clear, others stretch out and unfold. They echo a belief that music can create the conditions for attention or non-attention, and that it can open a space.

Mixed by Ernie Indradat, Music For Writers reflects an important aspect of my practice — one that is less about song and more about atmosphere and the in-between. I hope it offers something subtle but steady: a ground for thought, a companion for work, daydreaming, grief, happiness, sadness, or simply a place to rest.

Maroon 5 released their eighth studio album, Love Is Like, through Interscope. Love Is Like is the Adam Levine-fronted outfit’s first full length record since 2021’s JORDI. The pop-rock group previewed the album with its lead single, “Priceless,” a collaboration with Blackpink’s Lisa. Additionally, rapper Lil Wayne appears on the title track and Sexyy Red features on “I Like It.”

A standout Jerry Garcia Band run from The Warfield in San Francisco from February 28 to March 2, 1991 earned official release today. Live at The Warfield features Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia and his solo band whose lineup at the time comprised bassist John Kahn, keyboardist Melvin Seals, drummer David Kemper and vocalists Jacklyn LaBranch and Gloria Jones. Garcia performed at The Warfield 20 times with the Grateful Dead and another 130 times with JGB. Sixteen of Garcia’s 130 performances at The Warfield came in 1991 alone. Perhaps one of the most memorable runs that year came between February 28 and March 2.

Read about highlights of the shows below via Garcia Family Provisions:

The band always seemed to be having fun on stage, and that energy is felt from the run’s opening notes, with a particularly bubbly rendition of “The Way You Do the Things You Do” kicking things off. Highlights from February 28 include a primo “You Never Can Tell,” a dynamite duo of “My Sisters and Brothers” and “Deal” to close the first set, and soulful takes on “Waiting for a Miracle,” “Stop That Train” and “Midnight Moonlight.”

The fun continues on March 1 with a playful tune-up on Argent’s “Hold Your Head Up,” leading into a punchy “Cats Under the Stars” as the stage curtain rises. Cited by some as one of the decade’s best shows, the middle night is punctuated by powerful double doses of Van Morrison (“He Ain’t Give You None” and “And It Stoned Me”) and Bob Dylan (“Forever Young” and “Positively 4th Street”). But it’s the boundless “Don’t Let Go” that takes listeners on a veritable wild ride, stretching over 20 mesmerizing minutes.

The run closes on March 2 with another strong show from start to finish, featuring a setlist that balances hard-hitting ballads with roof-raising rave-ups. Dylan remains well represented with a moving version of “I Shall Be Released,” a dark and spooky “Señor” and a barn-burning “Tangled Up in Blue.” With performances like these, it’s easy to see how The Warfield cemented its place in the hearts and minds of Garcia and the greater Deadhead community.