Join host Jeff McCord for the very best new releases, mixed in with reissues and musical milestones, and a weekly classic album tribute!
This week, What’s Next returns from holiday break with new music from De La Soul, Iron & Wine, Kelcey Ayer of Local Natives, Dry Cleaning, Cardinals, Gabriel Jacoby, and many more, along with a lot of the very best (and most overlooked) music from 2025, plus lots of musical milestones and a classic Otis Redding album tribute!
What’ Next 1.8.26 playlist
| Hour One | ||
| Gabriel Jacoby | Gutta Child | Gutta Child |
| Anika | Hearsay | Abyss |
| Rilo Kiley [Jenny Lewis birthday 1.8.1976] | Dejalo (Zondo Remix Featuring Too $Hort) | Rkives |
| Maria Somerville | Stonefly (Seefeel remix) | Luster |
| Cardinals | Barbed Wire | Masquerade |
| Chocolate Genius [rel 1.8.2002] | Julia | I Am Sam sdtk |
| Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band | Monte Carlo/No Limits | New Threats from the Soul |
| Florry | Truck Flipped Over 19 | Sounds Like… |
| Byrds [rel 1.9.1967] | So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star | Younger Than Yesterday |
| Dijon | Higher! | Baby! |
| Alan Vega | Bye Bye Bayou | Alan Vega [2025 reissue] |
| Elvis Presley [birthday 1.8.1935] | My Baby Left Me | single |
| Dry Cleaning | Joy | Secret Love |
| Hour Two | ||
| Pino Palladino and Blake Mills | What Is Wrong With You | That Wasn’t A Dream |
| David Bowie [birthday 1.8.1947] | Lazarus | Blackstar |
| Annabelle Chairlegs | Concrete Trees | single |
| Case Oats | In A Bungalow | Last Missouri Exit |
| Badfinger [rel 1.9.1970] | Rock of All Ages | Magic Christian Music |
| Friendship | Free Association | Caveman Wakes Up |
| Deerhoof | Sparrow Sparrow | Noble and Godlike in Ruin |
| Otis Redding [classic album tribute] | Ole Man Trouble | Otis Blue |
| Otis Redding [classic album tribute] | Respect | Otis Blue |
| Otis Redding [classic album tribute] | I’ve Been Loving You Too Long | Otis Blue |
| Kelcey Ayer | Don’t Look Down | No Sleep |
| Stereolab | Immortal Hands | Instant Holograms on Metal Film |
| Spoon [rel 1.8.2023] | I Can’t Give Everythin Away | single |
| Hour Three | ||
| Bill Fox | Terminal Way | Resonance |
| Jim Black and the Schrimps | The Shelia | Better You Don’t |
| Yo La Tengo [Ira Kaplan birthday 1.7.1957] | Pass The Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind | I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass |
| Water From Your Eyes | Playing Classics | It’s a Beautiful Place |
| Tomeka Reid Quartet | Oo Long! | Dance! Skip! Hop! |
| The Barnburners | Raglan Road | I Heard That! |
| Iron and Wine | In Your Ocean | Hen’s Teeth |
| The Mekons | War Economy | Horror |
| The Pogues | Dirty Old Town (The Janice Long Show, BBC Radio 1 – 11th July 1985) | Rum Sodomy & the Lash 40th Anniversary |
| The Salt Collective | You Swallowed The Sun (feat. Chris Stamey, Pat Sansone) | A Brief History of Blindness |
| De La Soul | Sunny Storms | Cabin In The Sky |
| Beach Boys [rel 1.8.1973] | Sail On Sailor | Holland |
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