Mary Gauthier — “Reckoning”
Mary Gauthier has announced her next album, Reckoning, out September 25 via Soundly/Thirty Tigers. The title track, a six-minute journey co-written with Aaron Lee Tasjan, is streaming now — and it carries the same moral clarity that’s defined Gauthier’s songwriting since Mercy Now. “A reckoning is sudden and immediate,” Gauthier has said of the record, “having to deal with reality and the truth.”
Jesse Welles — “Won’t You Come Out Tonight” / “This and Not Some Other Way”
Welles’ new album Masks Off landed June 12, and while the title track has drawn the headlines for its protest edge, two deeper cuts are worth circling back to. “Won’t You Come Out Tonight” is the more polished of the pair — tighter hooks, cleaner production. But “This and Not Some Other Way,” the album’s closer, is the one that sounds like the Jesse Welles people fell for in the first place: unguarded, rough around the edges, all voice and conviction.
Minna — “I Don’t Mind If You Don’t Mind”
UK folk artist Minna’s new single arrives ahead of her Colorado EP, due November 5 — written, fittingly, while she was living and working at a wolf sanctuary in Colorado. “I Don’t Mind If You Don’t Mind” plays like a celebration of choosing your own path, unbothered by whether it looks like anyone else’s.
Steep Canyon Rangers — Next Act
The GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass outfit’s 15th studio album, Next Act, is out now via Yep Roc — a deliberate return to their bluegrass roots after years of genre-blurring. The record features guest turns from Steve Martin, Edie Brickell, and Celia Woodsmith (Della Mae), and finds the band, as one reviewer put it, “old enough to look back and young enough to look forward.”
Benjamin Tod — “Wyoming (Full Band)”
Tod’s “Wyoming” has been a fan-favorite since it first appeared over a decade ago — a song he’s said never felt right to play without his late friend and collaborator Nicholas Ridout. Today, it’s getting a new life: a full-band studio rendition with his current outfit, The Inline Six, out now on Spotify.
A curated pick by Planet Mars Music Editorial Staff and crafted with the help of AI