Below is a non-exhaustive list of new releases for April 17th, 2026. Feel free to jam the playlist below, request reviews from staff and contributors, let us know what you’re looking forward to this week (in music or otherwise), and remember: had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong!

Welcome! In lieu of another list, I figured I’d try my hand at the blog again — wooo! This is normally where I’d lay out the purpose and agenda of the post, or try to lend context to some broader future series, but I’m not precisely sure where this is going yet. So just bear with me on this stream-of-consciousness journey through Q1 of 2026.

Didn’t we just do one of these? Sorry about that. While you are welcome to go back in time to last week, the superior option is checking out

Greetings music enthusiasts, I hope everything is going well for you in 2026 (I can’t believe we’re in April already!). This month’s essay is essentially the article I had written last year, narrated by yours truly, the Doctor of Sputnik, with some tasty visuals to back it up. I actually think the essay is brought to life with this video version, so I hope you enjoy it. I’m s...

Below is a short list of new releases for April 3rd, 2026. Feel free to jam the playlist below, request reviews from staff and contributors, let us know what you’re looking forward to this week (in music or otherwise), and remember that, somehow, we return to regularly-scheduled programming (at some point).