The Daily Drop: April 15th 2026

Welcome to The Daily Drop, your roundup of the latest news from the rock, metal, punk, emo, hardcore, and alternative scenes.

Today’s round-up sees Saosin return with their first new music in over a decade. While NJ punks The Bouncing Souls and Midwest emotional indie rockers Snarls share details of new releases. The Pineapple Thief join InsideOutMusic, and there is new music from Continents and Million Moons.

Here’s everything you need to know from April 15th 2026.

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Saosin Return with ‘Starting Over Again’ & Sign to Sumerian Records

Saosin are back. The Orange County post-hardcore outfit has released ‘Starting Over Again’, their first new music in over a decade, and confirmed a new label home at Sumerian Records.

The explosive track reunites the band with vocalist Cove Reber, who featured on both of Saosin‘s first two albums, ‘Saosin’ and ‘In Search of Solid Ground,’ before departing in 2010.  While guitarists Phil Sgrosso and Beau Burchell handled production and mixing, giving the band full creative control from start to finish. For Sgrosso, it is his first major collaborative production contribution since he joined as a full member in 2016.

“‘Starting Over Again’ is our first new music in over a decade, and it came from the fans calling for it and us realising the timing finally felt right,” the band shares. “The chemistry in this lineup is undeniable, and everything just clicked.”

On what the track represents, they’re direct: “This song is exactly what the title says. A reset, but with more clarity, more urgency, and way more fire behind it. It feels like the start of something big for us, not a throwback, but a step forward.”

Saosin return to the UK next month for Slam Dunk Festival.

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The Bouncing Souls Announce New Album (‘Born To Be’)

New Jersey punk lifers The Bouncing Souls have announced their new album, ‘Born To Be. It’s due for release on 26th June and is produced by Grammy Award-winner Will Yip.

The record finds Greg Attonito (vocals), Bryan Kienlen (bass), Pete Steinkopf (guitar), and George Rebelo (drums) face up to disillusionment and grief, while holding to the belief that people are always worth showing up for. A press release announcing ‘Born To Be’ describes the record as “an album about staying human and connected in a world designed to pull both apart.”

Opening track, ‘The Light’ serves as the album’s mission statement. Inspired by Attonito’s daily drive to his child’s school, where the road drops from open skies into a thick bank of fog, the song builds an anthem around the idea that the light never actually disappears: it’s just filtered through whatever is obscuring it.

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The Pineapple Thief Signs to InsideOutMusic

Progressive art-rock group The Pineapple Thief have signed to InsideOutMusic, with a new album in development for late 2026.

Founded in 1999 by vocalist Bruce Soord and now 16 studio albums into their career, the band have spent the past year developing new material. Soord says the label felt like the natural home once the music started taking shape.

“Joining Inside Out is a definitive milestone for The Pineapple Thief. Having spent the past year developing new material, it became clear that Inside Out is the perfect home for our next musical journey. We are energised by this new partnership and can’t wait to reveal what we’ve been working on!”

InsideOutMusic head Thomas Waber adds: “We are extremely excited to welcome The Pineapple Thief to the InsideOutMusic family. As longtime followers of the band, it feels like the right time to be working together.”

The band play Radar Festival in Manchester on 2nd August as part of a run of European festival dates this summer, with a North American headline tour following in November and December.

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Continents Drop New Single ‘Gatekeeper’

Welsh metalcore band Continents have returned with ‘Gatekeeper’.  The gritty track digs into the frustrations of operating as an independent act in a scene where access and visibility are rarely as straightforward as they should be.

Vocalist Phil Cross is candid about where the song comes from: “Gatekeeper comes from a very real place for us. We’ve always built this band around community, and over time you start to see how things operate behind the scenes, for example tour opportunities where bands have asked for us specifically, yet somehow never make it through, artists happy to tap into your crowd but not always willing to return the favour.”

He continues: “At the same time, you’re navigating algorithms and having to pay just to reach people who already follow you. This kind of imbalance isn’t unique to music either, you see it across a lot of creative spaces.”

The line “never going to see what it could have been” is at the centre of it all. “It captures those moments that pass you by and the things that don’t quite come together. But it’s not about dwelling on that. It’s about staying focused, adapting, and continuing to move forward on our own terms.”

Continents have a string of UK dates coming up:

April
17th Junction, Plymouth
May
19th New Cross Inn, London
28th The Flapper, Birmingham
30th Victoria Inn, Derby
31st Crawford Arms, Milton Keynes
August
22nd The Queens Academy, Newport
September

19th Corporation, Sheffield
25th Daltons, Brighton
26th Holroyd, Guildford

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Million Moons Unveil ‘Black Sun Rising’ & Announce UK Tour

Mull/London post-rock outfit Million Moons are back with new single ‘Black Sun Rising’, out now via Ripcord Records (UK), Dunk! Records (EU), and A Thousand Arms Music (US). Produced by Lewis Johns (Rolo Tomassi, Slow Crush, Loathe) at The Ranch in Southampton, it’s the first glimpse of new material coming later this year and follows their well-received 2024 sophomore record, ‘I May Be Some Time’.

The track is rooted in the natural world: its quiet beauty and the slow erosion of it delicately plays into a compelling crescendo. Drummer Solomon Radley describes it as something he finds “bittersweet and cathartic at the same time”, while bassist Jay Miller points to the dynamic arc as what made it an obvious single choice. “It builds and builds into a huge post-rock crescendo before ending back where it begins, but leaving you feeling like you’ve grown or changed along the way,” Miller says.

The band gave the track its live debut at Ripcord Festival in Glasgow last month and now head out on a run of UK headline dates this summer:

June
25th Wharf Chambers, Leeds
26th The Black Heart, London
July
3rd Liquid Light Brewery, Nottingham
4th The Castle, Manchester
October
3rd Crowded Festival, Leicester

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Snarls Announce New EP & Share New Single

Columbus, Ohio alternative rock band Snarls have revealed plans to release a new EP this summer. ‘In Heaven There’s Rainbows’ will consist of five tracks and will be released on June 26th via Take This To Heart Records.

To mark the news, they’ve shared its lead single, ‘No Lock, No Prayer’. It proves to a stirring slice of indie rock that is sure to entice fans of Wolf Alice, Wet Leg, and Snail Mail.

As for ‘In Heaven There’s Rainbows,’ the EP sees ocalist Chlo White, bassist Riley Hall, guitarist Mick Martinez, and recently-joined drummer Mike Taddeo to return to basics, and writing with no deadlines or expectations.  The band describe it as a step forward in terms of openness, covering doubt, addiction, love, and loss over a set of grungy guitars and what the band call “gut-wrenchingly ethereal vocals.”

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Today’s New Songs

Here’s a rundown of the latest additions to our ‘Newish Music’ playlist.

Terror – Fear The Panic (feat. Chuck Ragan)
Saosin – Starting Over Again
The Bouncing Souls – The Light
Teen Suicide – Suffering (Mike’s Way)
Venom – Kicked Outta Hell
Continents – Gatekeeper
Marisa and The Moths – Nothing’s Getting Better
Maebe – God Wit
Million Moons – Black Sun Rising
Snarls – No Lock, No Prayer
Truck Violence – New Jesus
BEAR – Metastatic
proun – Miracles
The Limit – Part Two, Screw You
Gottlieb – White Vans
Della Nova – New Strain

Keep up to date with all the latest rock, metal, punk, and beyond, by following AlreadyHeard‘s ‘NewishMusic’ Playlist.

Find the playlist on Spotify and Apple Music.