#NewMusicFriday: April 3, 2026

Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream columnist, will browse through the many exciting albums released that day and select 15 worth a closer listen.

Bon Iver: VOLUMES: ONE (SELECTIONS FROM MUSIC CONCERTS 2019-2023 BON IVER 6 PIECE BAND)(Jagjaguwar)

sunn O))): sunn O))) (Sub Pop Records)

Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG: POMPEII // UTILITY (10k)

Charley Crockett: Age of the Ram (Island Records)

Wendy Eisenberg: Wendy Eisenberg (Joyful Noise Recordings)

Kronos Quartet:Glorious Mahalia (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

Arlo Parks: Ambiguous Desire (Transgressive)

A Place To Bury Strangers: Rare And Deadly (Dedstrange)

Thundercat: Distracted (Brainfeeder)

Metropolis Ensemble, Erik Hall, Sandbox Percussion: Canto Ostinato (Western Vinyl)

Bruce Hornsby: Indigo Park (Zappo Productions/Thirty Tigers)

Joe Pernice: Sunny, I Was Wrong (New West Records)

Steve Roach – Serena Gabriel: Entering Elysium (Projekt)

Gregory Hutchinson: Kind of Now – The Pulse of Miles Davis (Warner Music Group)

RATS WILL FEAST: An Evocation (Time To Kill Records)