Boston-based quartet Sophie’s Body has independently released its debut album, Zero, the band announced. The eight-track record was produced by Justin Termotto at Thump Recording Studios in Brooklyn and mastered by Sasha Stroud at Artifact Audio, the same team behind the band’s 2025 EP Mandatory Girl.

The album’s centerpiece, “Socialyte Zero,” arrives with an official visualizer. Frontwoman Sophie McMinn, who fronts the self-described “bubble grunge” group alongside drummer Dylan Hughes, bassist Harry Van Der Meer and guitarist Adam Hurt, called the album an “accidental concept record” built around themes of unease and anxiety.

Sophie’s Body played Shaky Knees Music Festival in September alongside acts including The Rapture, Sir Chloe and Pavement, and is set to headline a run of U.S. club dates through December before appearing at New York’s New Colossus Festival in 2027.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Vic Borlando.

French independent singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Anso Baya will release her debut album, “Watch the Stars,” on February 26, 2027 via her own label, Scarlight Records. The eight-song record centers on grief and loss, with the death of Baya’s father serving as its emotional anchor, according to the announcement.

The title track, out now, introduces the album’s themes and features orchestral arrangements composed by Baya herself alongside a pop-rock band. An accompanying music video, directed by Antoine Bal and produced by Marie Bordaz, depicts contrasting settings – a concrete building and a forest – built around a recurring bed motif meant to suggest presence and absence.

Baya wrote and composed the entire album and produced most of it, working with collaborators including producer-drummer Kevin Lika, producer-guitarist Franck Claudel, and session drummer Brian Griffin, who has worked with Lana Del Rey, Brandi Carlile and The Black Crowes. The record was mixed by Romain Dupont and mastered by Alex Gopher at Translab in Paris.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Vic Borlando.

X Ambassadors have released “Y.O.T.H.” (Year Of The Horse), their first new song since signing to Frontiers Label Group as the inaugural artist on NOIUS, the company’s new invite-only artist partnership platform. The track, accompanied by a music video, is the band’s first release since their 2024 album Townie.

Frontman Sam Nelson Harris said the song was written during the final sessions for the band’s upcoming album, with the instrumental coming together during a late-night writing session in Nashville and the lyrics finished weeks later. He described the track as being about change and embracing uncertainty, noting the personal shifts the band has gone through over the past year, including two members becoming fathers and the move to new management and a new label.

Frontiers launched NOIUS as part of its 30th-anniversary celebrations, pitching the platform as a flexible, collaborative structure for established artists built around creative freedom and shared investment. X Ambassadors, known for hits including “Unsteady” and “Renegades” from their platinum debut VHS, have a tour date listed for November 7 in Plant City, Florida.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Becky Kovach, bigpicturemediaonline.com.

French band Dharma Guns has released a cover of David Bowie’s “I’m Afraid of Americans,” featuring Rami Helin, alongside an official music video. The track previews the band’s five-song Subculture War EP, set for release November 20, with the remaining tracks consisting of original material in a similar vein to the band’s April 2026 album Nightmares and Broken Dreams.

The single marks Dharma Guns’ first release since signing with Australian label Golden Robot Records in August 2026. According to the band, the stripped-down arrangement grew out of a batch of 1990s alternative-rock covers recorded last spring for fun, reworked with just drums, bass and two guitars. Bandmate Rami Helin, who the group says has drawn Bowie comparisons throughout his career, was brought in to contribute to the track.

Dharma Guns describes the accompanying video as a portrayal of contemporary America. The band will play live dates in Oslo and Finland in late November, including stops in Helsinki and Tampere, following its 2024 debut album Ex-Generation Superstars and last year’s follow-up.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Juha Juoni, presshopper.fi.

Rock band Fuel has released its seventh studio album, “Pendulum,” marking the first full-length project with vocalist Aaron Scott, a former contestant on “The Voice.” The album, led by founding guitarist Carl Bell and Scott, includes the lead single “Want It” along with “Pull Me In,” “Bad at Love,” and a cover of The Eagles’ “Hotel California.”

The multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated band is touring in support of the album, with dates scheduled through December in Pennsylvania, California and Wisconsin, following a September club show at New York’s Silver Lining Lounge, according to the announcement.

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

Orville Peck opened the Man Turned Mule Tour with shows in Sacramento and Anaheim, kicking off a 19-date North American headline run backing his latest album, Mule, released via Warner Records. The Anaheim stop at House of Blues followed the tour’s opening night at Channel 24 in Sacramento, with support from Abbie Callahan.

The setlist drew from Mule, including “Already Gone,” “Too Little, Too Late,” “Rehab Blues” and “Ring the Bell,” alongside earlier songs such as “Dead of Night” and “Daytona Sand.” According to the announcement, the stage production features a honky-tonk set design with references to Peck’s career and interactive moments involving the opening act and guest appearances.

The tour continues through North America with stops in Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Brooklyn, Toronto and Montreal, concluding Nov. 22 at The Paramount in Huntington, New York. Mule is described by the label as a chronological account of a difficult period in Peck’s life, touching on addiction, sobriety and identity across 13 tracks.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Genesis Salazar, LiveNation.com.

Richie Hawtin has created a new body of work under his Plastikman alias for Pradasphere, a Prada exhibition at the newly opened Prada Galleria in Milan. Rather than a single soundtrack, Hawtin composed separate pieces for each room of the space, with the music designed to shift as visitors move through the building, according to the announcement.

The project extends Hawtin’s long-running collaboration with Prada, which began with him scoring five Prada runway shows starting in 2021 and includes Prada Extends, a music and culture series he co-conceived with the brand that has appeared at Tate Modern in London, Tokyo, Miami and Bangkok. The Milan commission builds on work first done for Pradasphere II in Shanghai in 2023, with material from that show reworked for the new Milan setting, the announcement says.

Prada Galleria, overseen by Miuccia Prada, occupies eight floors inside Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, on the site where Fratelli Prada was founded in 1913, and combines retail, hospitality, art and history.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Neil Bainbridge | Neighbourhood, neighbourhoodpr.com.

The Oak Ridge Boys released “Buried Treasures” today via Lightning Rod Records, a 10-song collection of covers the group has long performed but never previously assembled on one album. The project was produced by Anderson East and executive produced and mixed by Dave Cobb, recorded live at Sanctuary Blonde Studio in Nashville.

The album includes William Lee Golden singing lead on Billy Joe Shaver’s “Live Forever,” with an accompanying music video premiering today on Taste of Country. It opens with a cover of Paul Simon’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” a nod to the group’s history backing Simon on “Slip Slidin’ Away” in 1977. Other tracks include “Deep River,” “Stardust,” “What a Wonderful World” with guest vocalist Tim Duncan, and a closing rendition of “You Are So Beautiful” sung by tenor Ben James. The sole new composition, the title track “Buried Treasure,” was written for the project by Aaron Raitiere.

The group is marking the release with back-to-back Grand Ole Opry appearances on October 30 and 31. The album is the Oaks’ second studio release with James, who joined in January 2024; bass singer Aaron Lee McCune joined the touring lineup in 2026 while longtime member Richard Sterban is on temporary leave from touring for health reasons, though he appears on the album.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by 2911 Media Alert, 2911.us.

Jonah Kagen has released his second album, “Eternity of Anything,” via Arista Records. The project’s focus track, “Ain’t Convinced,” incorporates a sample from Fred Again’s “We (Heavy).” Kagen wrote, produced, recorded, engineered and mixed the album himself, working largely in isolation over a two-to-three-month period.

The singer-songwriter has described the album as a shift from his debut, “Sunflowers and Leather,” which he wrote while traveling the country in an Airstream trailer. For the new record, he said he stayed in one place and drew the songs from within rather than from external observation.

According to the announcement, “Sunflowers and Leather” debuted at No. 3 on Spotify’s Top Albums chart, and Kagen’s single “God Needs the Devil” reached No. 1 at U.S. Alternative radio and was certified Gold. The label says his catalog has surpassed 500 million global streams. Kagen celebrated the new album’s release with a pop-up show in New York and continues his fall headline tour with stops including Denver, Salt Lake City, Atlanta and Nashville in November.

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