This is Lenny Vaughn, cutting through the algorithm haze with what’s spinning in the last 24 hours.
Noise11 reports that Tracy Bonham just dropped a sharp-tongued new holiday single called “Un-Fk This Fkt Up Christmas,” a darkly comic response to a politically tense year that still shimmers with classic festive brightness. The track follows her 2025 album “Sky Too Wide” and arrives as she lines up 2026 tour dates, including the first onstage performances of the new song, reminding listeners that the Lilith Fair alum is still bending rock, pop, and folk into her own resilient shape.
For those who treat Eurovision as a global crate-digging expedition, Wiwibloggs highlights a wave of new releases from that universe. Ukrainian rapper alyona alyona closes out the year with a collaborative album whose title translates to “The most musical Christmas tree in the country,” blending holiday imagery with hard-edged, socially aware hip-hop. German Eurovision alum ISAAK is rolling out a song every Advent Sunday, weaving between percussion-heavy pop and indie rock on tracks like “Do It Again” and “Drown In The Rush,” while Lord Of The Lost team with IAMX on “What Have We Become?,” an experimental metal cut that leans into dystopian mood and industrial drama.
On the rock and metal front, Louder Sound’s latest archive drop captures a scene in constant motion rather than nostalgia on repeat. Mawiza, the Slipknot-endorsed Mapuche metal outfit, have tracked a live session at Gojira’s studio, a meeting of heavy generations that underlines how global and political metal has become. At the same time, Pink Floyd are set to open “Wish You Were Here” pop-up stores across Europe and Los Angeles, bringing classic-album mythology into a retail experience era, and Evanescence are plotting an extensive 2026 world tour with Spiritbox and Poppy, a bill that ties goth-tinged 2000s rock to genre-fluid modern metal.
In the industry backrooms where rights and royalties shape what lands in your playlists, MarketBeat notes that Warner Music Group, Tencent Music Entertainment Group, and Dolby Laboratories are the music stocks drawing the most investor attention, thanks to streaming growth and the spread of technologies like Dolby Atmos. Meanwhile, Hypebot reports that Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, and YouTube Recap have all rolled out, turning listener data into shareable year-end content and giving artists fresh tools for fan engagement. Hypebot also points out that Bandcamp Friday has wrapped for this year, with new 2026 dates announced, keeping that crucial lifeline of full-revenue days alive for independent artists.
And in the holiday singles trenches, the ARIA New Music Singles chart out of Australia has Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” and Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” leading the fresh-release pack, a reminder that blockbuster pop and rising neo-soul can still coexist on the same new-music shelf.
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