#NewMusicFriday: August 8, 2025

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.

Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You (Daughters of Cain Records)

Charley Crockett: Dollar A Day (Island Records)

For Those I Love: Carving The Stone (September Recordings)

Fugazi: Live at Lupo’s Providence, RI USA 09/19/93_FLS0586 (Live) (Dischord Records)

The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers (Warner Records)

Hayes Carll: We’re Only Human (Thirty Tigers)

Avi Avital, Between Worlds: Song of the Birds (Deutsche Grammophon)

Madeleine Cocolas: Syndesis (Room40)

Rosetta Stone: Dose Makes The Poison (Cleopatra Records)

Bill MacKay, Ryley Walker: Land of Plenty (Drag City Records)

Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer (NLV Records)

Ela Minus: QQQQ (REMIXES) (Domino Recording Co)

memory of jane: Unsinking The Cypress ([PIAS])

MT-O, mTwenty, T-O: mT-O (MT-O)

Fania All Stars: Live At Yankee Stadium Vol. 2 (Remastered 2025) (Craft Recordings)