16 New Albums From Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts, Beck, Railroad Earth & More

Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts released a new album, Second Song, through Reprise Records. Second Song follows a live album, As Time Explodes, from Young and his latest group The Chrome Hearts: guitarist Micah Nelson, bassist Corey McCormick, drummer Anthony LoGerfo and renowned keyboardist Spooner Oldham. Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts cut Second Song in analog at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La studios in Malibu, California. Lou Adler and The Volume Dealers (Neil Young and Niko Bolas) produced the 7-track LP. Second Song includes tunes Young wrote very early in his career and well as new numbers.

Beck is back with a new album, Ride Lonesome, out now via Capitol Records. em>Ride Lonesome marks Beck’s first album of new material in seven years since his 2019 album, Hyperspace. The new record saw Beck reconvening with the musicians he worked with on his previous ballad-focused albums Sea Change (2002) and Morning Phase (2015). Beck also teamed back up with Sea Change producer Nigel Godrich. The title track features a guest appearance by Sierra Ferrell. Beck spoke about tracking the album at his favorite Los Angeles studio and more in a statement:

“My new album Ride Lonesome is coming out this fall. The musicians from my original touring and recording band that I recorded Sea Change, Morning Phase and Mutations with — Smokey Hormel, Joey Waronker, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., and Jason Falkner— reconvened with me at my favorite studio (Room B at United Studios in Hollywood).

“We had Nigel Godrich, who worked on Sea Change and Mutations with us mixing all the songs. It had been a decade since we went in the studio and recorded Morning Phase. This time it felt like the playing and the chemistry had evolved and deepened— a sound that’s come together over the decades of working together.

“While we were revisiting a musical and physical place, it also felt like we were finding new sounds and emotional textures along the way.”

After several months rolling out previews from their first new studio album in four years, Railroad Earth today released their new album, Will Of The Water, on Ineffable Records. Railroad Earth, currently celebrating their 25th year as a band, recorded the follow-up to 2022’s All For The Song at lead vocalist, songwriter and guitarist Todd Sheaffer’s Fort Nonsense studio over two weeks in the summer of 2025. Will Of The Water is the only RRE album to date featuring multi-instrumentalist Mike Robinson, bassist Dave Speranza and keyboardist Matt Slocum. Both Robinson and Speranza departed the band last fall and were replaced by George Guthrie and Andrew Ryan respectively. This album captures the lineup before those changes.

Will Of The Water features guest appearances from longtime RRE collaborators Paul Hoffman, Daniel Donato, Lindsay Lou and Ronnie McCoury.

Warren Haynes delivered a new live album, Dreams & Songs: A Symphonic Journey, on Evil Teen Records in the U.S. and Provogue/Artone Label Group in Europe. Haynes captured Dreams & Songs when he debuted the live orchestral project in 2019 at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina. The 64-piece Asheville Symphony Orchestra joined Warren alongside bassist Oteil Burbridge, keyboardist John Medeski, drummer Jeff Sipe and saxophonist Greg Osby as well as Edwin McCain and Jasmine Muhammad on backing vocals.

Haynes co-produced the album with Don Was with mixing by Bob Clearmountain. Warren also worked with several arrangers including David Campbell, Jim Gray, Tom Matta, Vince Mendoza, Sean O’Loughlin and Chris Walden. Dreams & Songs: A Symphonic Journey features songs from across Haynes’ illustrious career including songs from the canons of Gov’t Mule, The Allman Brothers Band, The Dead and solo material.

Miley announced a new album, Bass Persuades, out through Atlantic Records on September 18. The album is the first for the artist, who dropped her “Cyrus” last name, on Atlantic following previous releases under Columbia Records. Miley’s 10th album, Bass Persuades is the follow-up to 2025’s Something Beautiful and features Model/Actriz on “Different Religion” and Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow on “Neon Signs.” In a social media post announcing the record, Miley wrote:

“Music takes hold of us. We feel it, sing it, sometimes dance to it, let it out and carry on. It is powerful, vulnerable, sweet and strong. Heart full, heartache, every part of life in between. That’s what the title means to me.”

Rhiannon Giddens released Hope Is The Thing With Feathers, the acclaimed singer-songwriter/instrumentalist’s new album out today via Nonesuch Records. Hope Is The Thing With Feathers sees Giddens gathering longtime collaborators bassist Jason Sypher, Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu and Louisiana native Dirk Powell. Hope Is The Thing With Feathers is also a family affair, featuring Rhiannon’s nephew Justin Harrington (bones), Dirk’s daughter Amelia Powell (acoustic guitar, vocals), Charly Lowry (vocals, percussion) and Giddens’ sister Lalenja Harrington. Giddens and Powell co-produced the 10-track LP at The Cypress House in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. The album boasts four originals, along with interpretations of Ola Belle Reed (“High on a Mountain”) and Elizabeth Cotton (“Freight Train”), among others. The first look at Hope Is The Thing With Feathers is one of the originals, “Carolina Rain.”

“Louisiana, the Congo, Italy, the Carolinas – all of these influences and people coming together to make something: that is American music,” Giddens stated. “It’s how American music came to be, and that was the original thought of creating a band with the musicians that I’ve been playing with for years, and featured on this album.”

Nicole Atkins released her seventh studio album and first full-length effort in over six years, Drama, via Sun Records/Wicked Game Records. Drama was recorded largely live over four days in Nashville with Grammy-nominated producer Pat Sansone of Wilco. The follow-up to 2020’s Italian Ice was born out of Atkins’ collaboration with Chris Isaak, who signed her as the inaugural artist on his Wicked Game Records imprint in partnership with Sun Records. Across its tracklist, Atkins was accompanied by her touring band’s guitarist John Paul Keith and drummer Danny Banks. Isaak also appears on the album, which features additional contributions from Sansone, Eric Slick (Dr. Dog), Dan Creamer (The Texas Gentlemen) and Scottish artist Davey Horne.

“I’m not trying to rehash or celebrate some bygone era,” Atkins said. “I’m just taking what I like melodically from the past and channeling it into my songs. I like to make them deeply personal. The question I come back to is – how do I make this sound exactly like me?”

beabadoobee (Beatrice Laus) issued a new album, Pylon, via Dirty Hit/Interscope Records. Pylon, beabadoobee’s fourth album, follows her 2024 album How Tomorrow Moves. The new 14-song set takes its name for the ubiquitous electricity towers found close to nearly every major artery across the globe. Laus recruited many friends to contribute to Pylon, including Hayley Williams, Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens Hall, Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates, Deftones’ Chino Moreno and Title Fight’s Shane Moran. Additionally, the track “Write Me A Letter” features production work from Matty Healy and George Daniel of The 1975.

Nashville singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt released her third studio album, Fools for the Fleeting, via Rounder Records. Produced by Isaiah Beard (save for the track “Blackout” that was produced separately by Jake Finch and Collin Pastore) the follow-up to 2024’s Mantras features guitarist Juan Solorzano and drummer Aksel Coe, with Nolan Taylor on “Blackout” and Sierra Hull appearing on “Orion’s Belt.”

“This album came from trying to figure out how to move forward in a world that feels aggressively chaotic and constantly in flux,” Pruitt said. “So much has changed in the last few years: politically, technologically, personally, and, of course, the irreversible damage done to our planet’s climate. I’ve been thinking a lot about how everything is temporary, and how that can feel either terrifying or freeing, depending on how you look at it. There’s some somberness to these songs, but I also wanted to include a thread of hope.”

Rodrigo y Gabriela are back with, OurHome, their new album available now through ATO Records. OurHome is Rodrigo y Gabriela’s first studio album since 2023’s In Between Thoughts… A New World. The new LP sees guest turns from former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman, jazz pianist Hiromi, cellist Hiyori Okuda and guitarist Yukihiro Atsumi. The duo from Mexico City cut the new record in Japan at NK Sound Tokyo with production from Dave Sardy and mastering by Stephen Marcussen.

“We’ve always felt drawn to Japan because of the art and aesthetics and attention to beauty,” Gabriela Quintero said. “There’s also something about being there that invites you to look inward, to reconnect with who you really are and what gives you meaning.”

Jake Xerxes Fussell issued a new album, The Old Beloved Path, through Fat Possum Records. The folk interpreter from Georgia’s sixth album, follows 2024’s When I’m Called. The guitarist’s touring bassist Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station) produced the record, which was captured in North Carolina. Contributors on The Old Beloved Path include Dominic Billett, Isa Burke, Wayne Horvitz and Ken Whiteley.

“For people in the folk music world, songs are their religion,” Fussell stated. “But traditional music is not a bee stuck in amber. I tend to think of everyone who plays traditional music as being on a spectrum from conservative to wildly creative. I am somebody who tends to sit on the edge of those two worlds. I don’t always present these songs in a historical context. I have to relate to them personally. I approach these songs through my own worldview.”

Country artist Orville Peck shared a new album, Mule, through Warner Records. Produced by Jay Joyce, the 13-track effort unfolds as a chronological account of the year that reshaped Peck’s life, tracing addiction, sobriety and rebuilding. The record opens with “Prologue (Eulogy Of A Man Turned Mule),” which features Emmylou Harris, Noah Cyrus and Allison Russell. Lead single “Too Little, Too Late” was co-written with Dan Wilson (The Chicks, Laufey) and Steve Rusch.

Susanna Hoffs returns with a new solo album, The List, via her label Baroque Folk. The List marks The Bangles co-founder’s first album of new original material since 2012’s Someday. CJ Camerieri produced the new 12-track LP, which sees contributions from Rufus Wainwright, Dan Wilson, Edie Brickell, Greg Leisz and others.

“The List is what happens when an artist and her closest friends gather around the kitchen table and share the stories that define one’s life: heartbreak, an empty nest, a new crush, foolish mistakes and the fading memory of what that might have been,” press materials for the album noted.

Fred Tackett and Scott Sharrard have spent years developing a deep musical connection as Little Feat bandmates. That chemistry is at the heart of Honest Men, a new duo album that finds the guitarists revisiting songs from their musical past while also showcasing their own songwriting. The 10-song collection combines songs from the Little Feat catalog with compositions by Tackett and Sharrard. The album was recorded live in the studio without headphones and with almost no overdubs, allowing the musicians’ natural chemistry to shape the performances.

“Really, we just want to jam,” Sharrard said when asked why he and Tackett decided to make an album and perform together as a duo.

Dragonflies, the newly formed duo made up of musician/composer Dhani Harrison and producer Nigel Godrich, released their self-titled debut album via Dark Horse Records/BMG. Built from tape loops at Godrich’s Brixton studio, the eight-track album features additional percussion from Joey Waronker and string arrangements by David Campbell, who previously worked with Godrich on Beck’s Sea Change.

“It’s like one person throwing something in the air and the other person catching it,” Godrich said of their process.

“He’s [Godrich] a machine,” Harrison added. “He has strong opinions about what he wants to hear, and for me it’s very humbling. That’s why it’s such a new experience.”

The Grateful Dead showed they were no nostalgia act in the summer of 1985 during their “Twenty Years So Far” Tour with one standout concert after another. Seven previously unreleased shows from the celebratory trek were compiled for Summer Magic 1985, a 20CD boxed set out today via Rhino. Recorded by Dan Healy and mastered by Grammy-winning engineer David Glasser, the physical version of legendary band’s 2026 box set comes housed in a custom, individually numbered box with art from Marcos Alvardo and design by Pablo Valdez and Steve Vance. Summer Magic 1985 starts with the Dead’s official 20th anniversary shows at the Berkeley Greek (June 14 – 16). The set also includes performances from SPAC (June 27), Hershey Park Stadium (June 28) and Merriweather Post Pavilion (June 30 and July 1).

The band — made up at the time by guitarists Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, bassist Phil Lesh, keyboardist Brent Mydland and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann — were firing on all cylinders. Highlights from the run include such rare moments as a debut cover of Eric Clapton’s “Keep On Growing,” the first “Cryptical Envelopment” in 13 years, an unusual first set “Crazy Fingers,” a “Supplication” jam and pairing of “Down In The Bottom” and “I Ain’t Superstitious.”

“Certain things are indicative of the Grateful Dead being ‘on,’ and a rare double encore always means they’re having a blast and don’t want the show to end. This boxed set’s seven gigs feature THREE double encores, and it’s those ‘little things’ that reveal a band still having more fun than a frog in a glass of milk,” David Lemieux said.