New Music Friday picks
Boolin Tunes’ New Music Friday (March 20) highlighted the week’s freshest releases across metalcore, hardcore, alternative and indie — the guide is a solid snapshot of the scene’s newest singles and EPs (boolintunes.com). If you’re tracking the next wave of aggressive bands, that round-up is where a lot of early listens are coming from this week (boolintunes.com).
Boolin Tunes runs New Music Friday as a weekly roundup—its March 13, 2026 post explicitly frames the series as a regular round-up of metalcore, hardcore, alternative and indie releases. (boolintunes.com) Each New Music Friday entry is paired with a curated playlist that the site links to; Boolin Tunes maintains a public “BOOLINTUNES: New Music Friday” Spotify playlist for those weekly selections. (open.spotify.com) Industry trackers recorded a busy release slate the week of March 20, 2026—Music‑Tracker counted 52 releases across genres for that Friday (March 20, 2026). (music-tracker.com) Specialist heavy-music roundups logged dozens of metal and hardcore drops in Week 12 (March 16–22), with March 20 alone listing releases from acts such as Abyssius, Axel Rudi Pell and Bong‑Ra among many others. (metal-collision.com) Boolin Tunes supports those weekly posts with an editorial-maintained 2026 release calendar that aggregates upcoming dates for metalcore, alternative, rock and indie records used to populate New Music Friday features. (boolintunes.com) Beyond New Music Friday, Boolin Tunes runs recurring discovery features like “Releases You May Have Missed” and profile pieces such as “The Top 25 Bands To Watch In 2026,” signalling the site’s role as a sustained source of new‑scene coverage rather than a one-off roundup. (boolintunes.com)
