As days get brighter and longer halfway into March, there’s practically no end to the new music being released to soundtrack your spring.
Nearly half a decade after their last album, HAIM kick off a new era of music with "Relationships" (and get some hunky help from actor Drew Starkey for the single’s music video). Plus, Frankie Grande makes his own bid for pop stardom on his major label debut single "Rhythm of Love," while Calvin Harris lets his voice shine on the harmonica-heavy "SMOKE THE PAIN AWAY."
Meanwhile, Gwen Stefani adds a few more flowers to her fourth solo album Bouquet with a deluxe edition containing bonus cut "Still Gonna Love You" (as well as an entire second all-acoustic disc). Peso Pluma drops new single "RARI" in the wake of his recently released short film 14-14.
Below, dive into 10 more new releases worth checking out including Chappell Roan’s long-awaited follow-up to "Good Luck, Babe!," a surprise single and music video from Lil Nas X, a new EP from LE SSERAFIM and more.
Four months after debuting her unreleased track "The Giver" on "Saturday Night Live," Chappell Roan has finally gifted fans the official studio version. The country song marks her first new release since the majestic 2024 one-off "Good Luck, Babe!"
Of course, between that rowdy November performance and release day, the Midwest Princess has become a certified GRAMMY winner and 2025 Best New Artist. True to form, Roan isn’t afraid to be completely herself while exploring new genres. On "The Giver," she slyly line dances her way around the innuendo-laden invitation at the center of the song’s sapphic come-ons.
"Ain’t got antlers on my walls/ But I sure know mating calls/ From the stalls in the bars on a Friday night," she promises with a wink before confidently crowing, "Ain’t no need to hurry/ ‘Cause baby, I deliver/ Ain’t no country boy quitter/ I get the job done."
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Anitta shows off the personal side behind her larger-than-life stage persona on "Larissa," taken from the soundtrack to her newly released Netflix documentary, Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta.
The Brazilian star (born Larissa de Macedo Machado) pairs a laid-back vocal with skittering, upbeat production as she tells a new flame, "I woke up with you in this hotel/ How did we get there?/ Oh, tell me, how do we leave? If you want, stay so you can understand/ How we got here and how well we fit." The track’s music video features documentary and home footage of the two-time GRAMMY nominee spending time at home, skiing in the mountains, happily dancing on the balcony of a tropical hideaway and more.
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LE SSERAFIM keep the temperature rising on their new EP, HOT, which arrives just one month before the K-pop girl group is set to embark on their very first world tour and concludes the trilogy they started last year with fellow mini-albums EASY and CRAZY.
From the start of spoken word opener "Born Fire," Sakura, Kim Chaewon, Huh Yunjin, Kazuha and Hong Eunchae commit to the EP’s fiery concept — whether they’re smoldering about being "burning hot" on the title track or preparing to rise like the phoenix after setting everything ablaze on the atmospheric midtempo ballad "Ash."
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Lil Nas X capped off a week of teasing his upcoming sophomore album DREAMBOY with the flirtatious new single "HOTBOX." Putting his floating falsetto to good use, the rapper leaves little to the imagination as he gleefully sings, "Hit me with your lovin’/ Boy, I know you wanna/ Pick me up and f— me/ I’ll be waitin’ on ya."
The weeklong blitzkrieg (which kicked off with the LP’s title track and also includes surprise songs "BIG DUMMY!","SWISH" and "RIGHT THERE!") has been positively pretty in pink, with Lil Nas X posing as a different, muscled-up doll on the cover of all five singles. The Elias Talbot-helmed music video for "HOTBOX" is no exception as he channels both Ken and Sharpay Evans in equal, fabulous measure.
Davido revels in his role as one of the brightest Afrobeats stars on the global stage on "Be There Still." Featured on his upcoming fifth album — the appropriately titled 5ive — the song gives the Nigerian singer plenty to celebrate as he croons, "I want to have it all/ Still define my result/ Na God dey bless me all the way/ Twelve years, I’m still on top/ And my cup runneth over."
Though fans will have to wait until April 18 to hear the entire studio set, "Be There Still" follows in the footsteps of fellow 5ive-era singles "Awuke" with YG Marley and"Funds" featuring Odumodublvck and Chike.
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For Coheed and Cambria’s landmark tenth album, frontman Claudio Sanchez decided to forgo the band’s characteristic sci-fi-fueled prog rock for a series of songs that are more autobiographically meta. The rocker examines his role in crafting the fictional universe eight of the band’s previous nine albums inhabit on "Play the Poet" and even fantasizes about leaving Coheed and Cambria behind on pop-punk rager "Goodbye, Sunshine."
In addition to previously released singles like "Searching For Tomorrow" and "Someone Who Can," The Father of Make Believe also concludes with an epic 20-minute closer divided into four separate movements: "The Continuum I: Welcome to Forever Mr. No…," "The Continuum II: The Flood," ‘The Continuum III: Tethered Together" and "The Continuum IV: So It Goes."
Fresh off his GRAMMY-nominated 2024 album $10 Cowboy, Charley Crockett enlisted Shooter Jennings to co-produce his follow-up LP, Lonesome Drifter. The release was recorded live with minimal overdubs, with the pair attempting to capture, as they said in a statement, "the magic of performance on tape."
Throughout the 12-track journey, Crockett tips his well-worn cowboy hat to a diverse set of influences. The spirit of Waylon Jennings, Woody Guthrie, Bill Withers and Bob Dylan appear on twangy yarns like "Night Rider," "The Death of Bill Bailey," "One Trick Pony" and closer "Amarillo By Morning."
SEULGI continues her solo career outside of Red Velvet with the release of her second mini album, Accidentally On Purpose.
Released on March 10, the six-track collection kicks off with infectious opener "Baby, Not Baby," whose music video depicts the K-pop idol becoming more and more hilariously, ahem,batty after a mission to give out free hugs at the mall goes embarrassingly awry. The EP also includes downbeat bop "Better Dayz," the dreamy, elastic bounce of "Rolling (With My Homies)," Korean-language ballad "Praying" and more.
Carly Pearce expands on her 2024 album Hummingbird with the deluxe release of hummingbird: no rain, no flowers. The original LP’s lead single, "we don’t fight anymore," earned the country singer and collaborator Chris Stapleton a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Duo/Group Performance, and now she’s continued the era with a trio of bonus tracks and two acoustic re-workings of "oklahoma" and "things i don’t chase."
Standout cut "if looks could kill" turns the idiom on its head by putting Pearce on the receiving end of a devastating picture she can’t bear to see. "Heart first" serves as a regretful lamentation of a love affair gone toxic, while "no rain" finds the singer putting her troubles into contemplative perspective while drawing the deluxe album’s wistful subtitle from its chorus.
Neal Francis continues his track record of delivering groovy, retro-leaning psychedelic rock on his latest album, Return to Zero. Front-loaded with a trio of collaborations ("Need You Again," "Don’t Wait" and "Broken Glass") with Brooklyn soul act Say She She, the LP is the Illinois native’s first studio release since his 2023 live album, Francis Comes Alive, which was recorded during back-to-back shows at Chicago’s historic Thalia Hall.
Elsewhere on Return to Zero, Francis gets down over a deliciously addictive bass line on "Back It Up" and pounds out a swirling ode to heartbreak on "What’s Left of Me" before teaming up with Carlile on the synth-heavy album cut "Dirty Little Secret."