Grammy-nominated artist Tobe Nwigwe has released a new 12-track album, “The Bridge,” which the label says explores identity, belonging and code-switching, presenting the ability to move between cultural worlds as a means of adaptation and survival. The project includes collaborations with Busta Rhymes, Sia, Labrinth, Scarface, Paul Wall, Jay Electronica, Adekunle Gold, Flavour, ODUMODUBLVCK, The Cavemen, and Nwigwe’s wife and creative partner, Fat Nwigwe.

The release coincides with the continuation of Nwigwe’s multi-year partnership with Reebok, known as Reebok x Chukwu, a footwear and apparel collaboration drawing on his Nigerian heritage, personal style and football background. According to the announcement, a new Tobe Nwigwe Reebok shoe is coming soon.

The album arrived alongside releases from several other acts distributed the same day, including Austin Snell, WD-HAN, The Audacity, Wyatt Lowe, and a collaboration between Stephen Kramer Glickman and Edwin McCain.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Black Box | Alex Nesi, blackbox.la.

Composer Daniele Luppi has released his new album, Wilma, out digitally worldwide via Verve/slowplay. A vinyl edition is set for November 13, with pre-orders now available. The album draws on material from forgotten Italian film scores of the 1970s, reworked with Luppi’s own arrangements and production.

Wilma features vocal contributions from Michael Kiwanuka and Orion Sun, including the closing track “You Could Be The Sun, I Could Be The Moon,” on which the two trade verses before harmonizing in the song’s final moments. Luppi said the track evolved from a solo Kiwanuka piece into a duet, with Orion Sun’s part reworked lyrically to reflect her own perspective, and that he intended the song as the emotional culmination of the album.

The label describes the record as blending analog-style orchestral production with contemporary instrumentation and effects. Early reviews cited in the announcement, including from SPIN and Consequence, praised the album’s reimagining of vintage Italian film music.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Jillian Condran, nastylittleman.com.

Pop singer-songwriter Thomas Day has released his new EP “my bad” via Arista Records. The five-song project explores young love and the transition into adulthood, and according to the announcement was written almost entirely by Day himself, marking what the label describes as a more assured and unfiltered creative turning point for the artist.

The release arrives ahead of Day’s debut performance at Austin City Limits Music Festival on October 11, where he is set to play songs from the EP, including focus track “superstar,” live for the first time. He also has a headlining date in Salt Lake City on October 8.

The EP follows Day’s 2025 release “kids,” whose single “she got a thing about her” has drawn more than 32 million streams on Spotify, according to the announcement. Day previously toured in support of Joshua Bassett, The Driver Era and Nessa Barrett, and headlined his own US-to-EU tour last fall. His 2023 full-length “Love Me for Another Day” has accumulated more than a quarter of a billion streams, per the label.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Kelsey Hession, aristarecordings.com.

Jonah Kagen has released a new single, “Do Better,” via Arista Records, the latest preview of his sophomore album, Eternity of Anything, due October 30. The track addresses a relationship in which devotion is not being reciprocated, according to the announcement.

Kagen wrote, produced, recorded, engineered and mixed the song himself, consistent with his hands-on approach to the full album, which he says he completed in near-total isolation over two to three months. The follow-up to his debut, Sunflowers and Leather, marks a shift from that record’s on-the-road songwriting process to a more inward-looking method, per the announcement.

“Do Better” follows lead single “Don’t Feel Right” and arrives after what the label describes as a breakout year for Kagen, whose debut album reportedly reached No. 3 on Spotify’s Top Albums chart and drew coverage from outlets including Rolling Stone and American Songwriter, according to the announcement.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Kelsey Hession, aristarecordings.com.

Massachusetts rock band D-Tension & The Secrets have released their self-titled debut album, a nine-track collection led by the single “Hate To See You Go.” The record moves across rock, alt-rock, punk and power pop, according to the announcement, with the opening track drawing on the Irish punk tradition associated with Boston bands like Dropkick Murphys.

The project is led by D-Tension, who previously built a career as a hip-hop artist and producer, touring with DMX, Ja Rule and Biz Markie and producing for Slug of Atmosphere, Blackalicious and Mr. Lif. He took up guitar during the 2020 pandemic lockdown and began writing rock material, releasing ‘Secret Rock & Roll Project’ in 2021 with remote contributions from Craig Silverman of Agnostic Front, Frank Pino of the Andrew W.K. band, and drummer Brian Viglione. A second album, ‘Tales From The Pub,’ followed on Boston label Red on Red Records.

The new album marks the first time D-Tension has recorded in the studio together with his full band, The Secrets, formed in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts. “Hate To See You Go” was written after the pandemic death of a friend and fellow musician, and the band says the record draws on other personal losses as well. D-Tension was inducted into the New England Music Hall of Fame in 2024 and has won two Boston Music Awards.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Eric Alper, thatericalper.com.

David Worby has released “Play You Again” featuring Alyssa Trahan, the closing track on his four-song EP Worby & Friends, now available on major streaming platforms. The song, written by Worby, Georgia Middleman and Amanda Green, follows three earlier releases on the project: “Hope” with The Bennett Hall Band, and the double single “Living Large In A Small Town” with Breaking Eight and “Hard Hats” with Matt Wynn, on which Trahan previously served as a co-writer.

Worby, a trial attorney known for his legal advocacy on behalf of Ground Zero rescue and recovery workers after the Sept. 11 attacks, serves as songwriter and co-executive producer on the project alongside Michael August and Suzanne Worby, with Simon Reid producing. According to the announcement, Worby will donate one dollar for every stream of a track from the EP, up to $100,000 split between the Gary Sinise Foundation and the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

The label says Worby & Friends is the first chapter of a larger body of work; additional tracks featuring Ava Paige and Hunter Jordan are planned in the coming weeks, followed by a full album including “Blue Collar Boots” and “You Must Have Read My Mind.” Worby has more than 25 country music cuts to his credit, and this project marks his first release under his own creative direction.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Christy Walker-Watkins, 3on.e2ma.net.

Singer-songwriter Micah Sheveloff has released “Someone There For Me,” the first single from his upcoming album “Don’t You Wonder,” due January 15, 2027. The song was co-written by Extreme frontman Gary Cherone and jazz composer Benny Golbin, and grew out of a decades-long friendship between Sheveloff and Cherone that dates back to their time playing together in Boston in the 1980s.

According to the announcement, Cherone brought Sheveloff an old demo in fall 2024 with the idea of recording it in an American Songbook style with jazz musicians, but touring commitments for Extreme’s album “SIX” delayed the session. Sheveloff subsequently reworked the song himself, altering the tempo and vocal melody and adding a new bridge, with jazz guitarist Nate Najar also appearing on the track.

The album features 12 tracks, including “City Bus” and “Tranquility,” and draws on influences the announcement lists as ranging from Lyle Lovett and Herbie Hancock to Cheap Trick and Brian Wilson. Sheveloff, a classically trained pianist raised in Lexington, Massachusetts and now based in St. Petersburg, Florida, has worked across classical, country, pop, rock and metal sessions over his career.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Eric Alper, thatericalper.com.

Canadian blues artist Brandon Isaak has released his eighth solo album, ‘Lookin’ Out My Window,’ on Modern Primitive Records, alongside the single “World’s Got the Blues.” The record follows his 2025 album ‘Walkin’ With the Blues,’ which according to the announcement won three Canadian Blues Music Awards, including Electric Blues Album of the Year.

Isaak produced, engineered and mixed the new album himself at Modern Primitive Studios, with mastering by Marc L’Esperance at heavyOsonic Studios in Vancouver. He recorded with his backing band, The Saints of Swing, featuring Darryl Havers, Rob Becker, Chris Nordquist, Jerry Cook, Paul Wainwright, Marty Shepard and Nadine States. Cook, who co-wrote the album’s horn arrangements, was named Sax Player of the Year at the 2025 Canadian Blues Music Awards, according to the announcement.

Born in Whitehorse, Yukon and now based in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, Isaak has spent 39 years touring internationally, including 13 European tours across three continents, and has received three JUNO Award nominations. His catalogue includes ‘Bluesman’s Plea,’ ‘Here on Earth,’ ‘Big City, Back Country Blues,’ ‘Rise n’ Shine,’ ‘Modern Primitive,’ ‘One Step Closer’ and ‘Walkin’ With the Blues.’

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Eric Alper, thatericalper.com.

Winnipeg punk rock band The Bloodshots have released a new single and music video, “Scream!,” and are touring Canada through December 12 in support of it. The band is calling the trek the “Screamin’ Across Canada Tour,” with an October run alongside Australian rockers The Lazys on their own “Too Tough To Die Tour,” followed by additional dates across Ontario, the Prairies, British Columbia and Quebec.

According to the band, “Scream!” grew out of a warm-up riff frontman CJ Loane regularly played before shows, which evolved into a full song after audiences began reacting to it with synchronized fist pumping. The band recorded the track at a studio in rural Manitoba and says it kept the production raw to reflect the song’s live energy. The Bloodshots describe their style as “Nu Grunge Punk ‘n Roll,” citing comparisons to acts such as The Offspring, Nirvana, Rise Against and Green Day.

The band, led by Loane, who is from Sagkeeng Anicinabe First Nation in Manitoba, has previously shared stages with acts including Buckcherry, Steel Panther, Danko Jones and Slash. Their single “No Way Out” won Best Rock Video at the Indigenous Superstar Awards and the Native American Music Awards, and the band says they are set to receive a second SOCAN award after “Gettin’ Around” reached No. 1 on the Indigenous Music Countdown.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Eric Alper, thatericalper.com.

strongboi, the duo of Alice Phoebe Lou and Ziv Yamin, has released a new single, “dizzy,” the second preview of the Berlin act’s upcoming second album. The song follows “think twice,” which came out in late July.

The release coincides with a 21-date headline tour spanning Europe and North America. The run begins Nov. 24 in Brussels and continues through Europe before resuming in February 2027 in Toronto, with stops including New York, Chicago, San Francisco and two nights in Los Angeles to close the tour on March 14. Multi-instrumentalist Salami Rose Joe Louis, who has previously featured on strongboi’s track “unconditional,” will join as support.

strongboi released its self-titled debut album in 2023, followed by the EP 1 in 2025. According to the announcement, the project has drawn roughly half a million monthly Spotify listeners and over 40 million streams, and last year toured with Men I Trust across North America.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Madi Florence.