What's Happening?!?!
Collecting’s roads less travelled
At RC Towers, we brace ourselves for new music from
The Offspring, Soul Sign, Katy Perry, Papa Roach, Natasha Bedingfield, Down, Lily Allen, SHAV (System Of A Down’s Shav Odadjian), Atomic Kitten’s Natasha Hamilton, Modest Mouse, Paramore, Kylie Minogue, Foreigner, RAYE, Clutch, Noel Gallagher, Nightwish, Janet Jackson, Pearl Jam, Sade, Jimmy Barnes,
Billy Idol, Deftones, Gordon Giltrap & Nick Hooper, Vent 414, Crimson Glory, Shelby Lynne, Robbie Williams, Childish Gambino (two), BLACKPINK’S Lisa
(on RCA), Vanessa Williams (Mellian), Miranda Lambert (Republic), Mötley Crüe (Big Machine), The Night Flight Orchestra (Napalm); reissues from Stryper, Cats In Space; and a memoir by Poison’s Rikki Rockett.
CELLULOID HEROES
Projects due include Air Supply All Out Of Love biopic in 2025; Melissa Etheridge I’m Not Broken two-part documentary series, The Crow Girl film, soundtracked by Adam Price and Slash, Paramount+; Luca Guadagnino’s Queer film and Scott Derrickson’s The Gorge film, both soundtracked by NIN’S Trent Reznor, Atticus
Ross; Andrew Stanton’s In The Blink Of An Eye film, soundtracked by Thomas Newman, via Searchlight; Sony’s Bad Boys: Ride Or Die film, soundtracked by
Lorne Balfe, in cinemas, 7 June; Scott Cooper’s Deliver Me From Nowhere Bruce Springsteen documentary, via Disney; Spike Lee’s High And Low film, with Ice Spice; Martin Scorsese’s Frank Sinatra biopic; Irene Taylor’s
I Am: Celine Dion documentary, Amazon Prime, 25 June; Trey Parker & Matt Stone’s latest film, with Kendrick Lamarr, cinemas, 4 July 2025; Gurinder Chadha’s Christmas Karma film, soundtracked by Nitin Sawhney, Take That’s Gary Barlow, All Saints’ Shaznay Lewis, cinemas, December 2025; Tiffany Paulsen’s Winter, Summer, Spring Or Fall film, soundtracked by Death Cab For Cutie’s Zac Rae, premiering New York Tribeca Film Festival this month, along with Don Hardy’s Linda Perry: Let It Die Here documentary, including Dolly Parton, Brandi Carlile, Christina Aguilera, Henrik Burman’s Avicii – I’m Tim documentary, with David Guetta,
Chic’s Nile Rodgers, Coldplay’s Chris Martin; Alan G Parker’s Borrowed Time John Lennon documentary, by Christmas; Paul Clarke’s Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line documentary, premiering Syndey State Theatre, 5 June.
KIT & CABOODLE
Slash has a ‘Jessica’ Les Paul Standard guitar out via Gibson; Blink-182’s Tom Delonge has a Starcaster guitar out via Fender.
ACOUSTIC
June (14) Madeline Hawthorne Tales From Late Nights And Long Drives, producer Ryan Hadlock (The Lumineers), madelinehawthorne.com, Zsela Big For You, co-producers Daniel Aged (Frank Ocean), Gabe Wax (Soccer Mommy), Mexican Summer.
INDIE
May (24) Girl & Girl Call A Doctor CD, white LP, producer Burke Reid (Courtney Barnett), Sub Pop June (7)
The Mysterines Afraid Of Tomorrows, producer John Congleton (St Vincent), Fiction (14) Hermanos Gutierrez Sonido Cosmico, producer Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), Easy Eye Sound (28) Milly Your Own Becoming, producer Sonny Diperri (NIN), Dangerbird July (19) Sham Family A Deaf Portrait Of Peace DL, producer Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck) September (13) Deadletter Hysterical Strength, producer Jim Abbiss (Adele), SO November Our Girl’s latest, producer John Parish (PJ Harvey), Bella Union TBC Summer Salt Electrolytes, producer Carlos De La Garza (St Vincent), AWAL.
METAL
June (21) SUMAC The Healer 2LP, producer Scott Evans (Thrice), bandcamp.com, King Bastard From Whence We Came DL, producer Brendan Mcgowen (Lamb Of God) (28) Nothing More Carnal, producer WZRD BLD (Disturbed), Better Noise.
PUNK
June (7) Authority Zero’s Jason Devore Till The Voice Goes Out, co-producer Bob Haag (The Ataris), Double Helix (28) Chaser Small Victories, producer Cameron Webb (NOFX), Double Helix.
ROCK
June (21) Talker I’m Telling You The Truth, co-producer Collin Pastore (Boygenius), The Mercury Riots In Solstice, producer Mike Fraser (AC/DC), DLS September (13) Giovannie & The Hired Guns Land Of The Lost, producer Johnny K (Megadeth), Warner Nashville (20) Lesoir Push Back The Horizon CD, LP, coloured 2LP with bonus, producer John Cornfield (Muse), V2.