New album releases and announcements are constant, and keeping track of them all can be difficult. Now with our regularly updated release guide, you won’t have to. August is another good month for alternative music, featuring releases from Phoebe Bridgers, Citizen, Public Opinion, L’Rain, Ceremony, Chelsea Wolfe, the Warning, Cold Gawd, and more. See which albums are coming out this month below.
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Aug. 4
Fana Hues – Catch N’ Release (Platoon)
Aug. 7
Blums – Sunk Cost Fantasy (Take Care)
Ceremony – Tell Me Your Dream (Relapse)
Citizen – Halcyon Blues (Run for Cover)
God of War (TAGABOW and Hooky) – molly picture (Julia’s War)
John Carpenter – Cathedral (Sacred Bones)
Man/Woman/Chainsaw – Cannonball (Fiction)
Militarie Gun – God Save The Gun (Deluxe) (Loma Vista)
Public Opinion – The Curse of Public Opinion (SideOneDummy)
Slow Fiction – dollhouse (Tight Knit)
Aug. 14
Descendents – Liveage! (Reissue) (Org Music)
Getdown Services – Massive Champion (Breakfast)
Hovvdy – Big World (Arts & Crafts)
L’Rain – fata morgana (Mexican Summer)
Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal – DOOMED! (Backwoodz)
Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Weekend (Dead Oceans)
Radiator Hospital – Distorting Time (Lame-O)
Sweeping Promises – You Say I Romanticize (Sub Pop)
Aug. 21
The Afghan Whigs – Soft Control (Royal Cream/BMG)
Chelsea Wolfe – The Dark (Loma Vista)
The Cramps – Gravest Gravy (Vengeance)
GB – Herzsprung (AD 93)
hey, nothing – Hound (Music Soup/Interscope)
James Ivy – The Seams (FADER)
No Joy – Big Life, Big Leaf EP (Hand Drawn Dracula)
OK Cowgirl – Rhinestone Cowgirl (Easy Does It)
Sawyer Hill – Everybody’s Home, Nobody’s Happy (Sawyer Hill)
Squirrel Flower – Say A Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going (Polyvinyl)
Texas Is the Reason – Do You Know Who You Are?: TX30 Special Edition (Revelation)
Weezer – Weezer (The Gold Album) (Reprise/Warner)
Westside Cowboy – It Goes On (Island)
Wild Pink – Still Coming Down (Fire Talk)
Aug. 28
Alabama Shakes – I Must Be Dreaming (Island)
Asher White – Love Aggregates (Joyful Noise)
Beartooth – Pure Ecstasy (Fearless)
Boy Harsher – Get Mean (Atlantic)
Cold Gawd – Glory2 EP (Dais)
Dinosaur Jr. – There Near (Jagjaguwar)
Interpol – This Mirror Weighs a Ton (Partisan)
The Linda Lindas – Gotta Get Out (Reprise/Warner)
Mike D (Beastie Boys) – Thank You (Capitol)
NOFX – 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up: Soundtrack + Score (Fat Wreck)
Pulp – Live! (Rough Trade)
Squid Pisser – Throat Slave (SKiN GRAFT)
The Warning – Everything’s Falling (Republic)
