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Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in January. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Sunday, January 5

• Bad Bunny — Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment)

Wednesday, January 8

• Ethel Cain — Perverts (Daughters of Cain)

Friday, January 10

• Ellis King — Better Luck EP (Nettwerk)
• Franz Ferdinand — The Human Fear (Domino)
• Lambrini Girls — Who Let The Dogs Out (City Slang)
• Mon Rovîa — Act 4: Atonement EP (Nettwerk)
• Moonchild Sanelly — Full Moon (Transgressive)
• Ringo Starr — Look Up (UMG)
• Tremonti — The End Will Show Us How (Napalm)
• Wyatt E. — zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu Part 1 (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• zzzahara — Spiral Your Way Out (Lex Records)

Friday, January 17

• Blood Lemon — Petite Deaths EP (Moon Ruins)
• David Gray — Dear Life (Laugh A Minute Records)
• chlothegod — I Feel Different Every Day EP (EQT Recordings)
• Delights — If Heaven Looks A Little Like This (Modern Sky UK)
• Delivery — Force Majeure (Heavenly Recordings)
• DUNES — Land of the Blind (Ripple Music)
• Ela Minus — DIA (Domino)
• Flora Hibberd — Swirl (22TWENTY)
• Geowulf — The Child (Nettwerk)
• Godzillionaire — Diminishing Returns (Ripple Music)
• jasmine.4.t — You Are the Morning (Saddest Factory Records)
• Kele — The Singing Winds Pt. 3 (Kola)
• lots of hands — into a pretty room (Fire Talk)
• Mac Miller — Balloonerism (Warner)
• Milk & Bone — Baby Dreamer EP (Nettwerk)
• Pastel — Souls in Motion (Spirit Of Spike Island)
• Pigeon Pit — Crazy Arms (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
• Rebecca Black — Salvation (Rebecca Black)
• Rose Gray — Louder, Please (Play It Again Sam)
• Rufus Wainwright — Dream Requiem (Warner Classics)
• Son Lux — Risk of Make Believe EP (City Slang)
• Songhoy Blues — Héritage (Transgressive)
• Sophie Jamieson — I still want to share (Bella Union)
• Victoria Canal — Slowly, It Dawns (Victoria Canal)
• Wafia — Promised Land (Nettwerk)
• The Weather Station — Humanhood (Fat Possum Records)
• Willow Avalon — Southern Belle Raisin’ Hell (Atlantic)
• Zora — BELLAdonna (Get Better Records)

Friday, January 24

• Anna B Savage — You and i are Earth (City Slang)
• Benjamin Booker — Lower (Fire Next Time Records)
• Blue Violet — Faux Animaux (Me & My Records)
• Central Cee — Can’t Rush Greatness (Columbia)
• Dax Riggs — 7 Songs For Spiders (Fat Possum)
• DITZ — Never Exhale (DITZ)
• Drew & Ellie Holcomb — Memory Bank (Magnolia Music)
• Eric Clapton — Meanwhile (EPC Enterprises)
• FKA twigs — Eusexua (Young)
• flipturn — Burnout Days (Dualtone)
• Ghais Guevara — Goyard Ibn Said (Fat Possum Records)
• High. — Come Back Down EP (Kanine Records)
• Jeannie Piersol — The Nest (High Moon Records)
• Kane Brown — The High Road (Sony Music)
• Kathryn Mohr — Waiting Room (2654283 Records)
• Larkin Poe — Bloom (Trick-Woo)
• Lucero — Lucero Unplugged (Liberty & Lament)
• Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, and Karine Polwart — Looking For The Thread (Lambent Light Records)
• Mogwai — The Bad Fire (Temporary Residence)
• Open Head — What Is Success (Wharf Cat)
• Pet Needs — Kind of Acoustic (Xtra Mile Recordings)
• Rose City Band — Sol Y Sombra (Thrill Jockey)
• Sam Amidon — Salt River (River Lea Recordings)
• Teddy Swims — I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) (Warner Records)
• Thin Lizzy — Acoustic Sessions (Universal Music)
• Tunng — Love You All Over Again (Full Time Hobby)
• The Veils — Asphodels (V2 Benelux)
• The Weeknd — Hurry Up Tomorrow (XO Records/Republic)

Friday, January 31

• Bonnie “Prince” Billy — The Purple Bird (No Quarter)
• Brooke Combe — Dancing at the Edge of the World (Modern Sky UK)
• Canty — Dim Binge (Full Time Hobby)
• Circa Waves — Death & Love Pt. 1 (Lower Third)
• Damon Locks — List of Demands (International Anthem)
• Eddie Chacon — Lay Low (Stones Throw Records)
• Eterna — Debunker (section1)
• Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains — Âge Fleuve (InFiné)
• horsegiirL — v.i.p — very important pony EP (Three Six Zero Recordings)
• Jaye Jayle — After Alter (Pelagic Records)
• Johnny Lloyd — Punchline (Xtra Mile Recordings)
• Last Train — III (Last Train Productions)
• Lilly Hiatt — Forever (New West Records)
• L.S. Dunes — Violet (Fantasy Records)
• Maribou State — Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune)
• moe. — Circle of Giants (Fatboy Records)
• N NAO — Nouveau Langage (Mothland)
• Penny & Sparrow — Lefty (I Love You)
• Pentire — Love on TV EP (Pentire)
• Pink Chameleons — Harmony (Soliti)
• Prison — Downstate (Drag City)
• Robert Ascroft — Echo Still Remains (Hand Drawn Dracula)
• Rumer — In Session (Rumer/Ciancia Management)
• Tyga — NSFW (Last Kings Music/EMPIRE)

For years now, people have been pestering Rihanna to release a new album. It’s largely been in good fun, but recently, one fan crossed a line and Rihanna didn’t hold back with her response.

Online, a user named Lorenzo wrote, “We want an album forehead.” Rihanna clapped back, “listen Lorenzo! You ain’t cute enough to be calling me by my black name you dizzy f*ck!”

For the record, forehead jokes apparently aren’t off-limits for Rihanna, but she’d seemingly prefer if they come from people close to her, or just herself. In a 2023 interview, she said of her family, “You don’t have an idea [when you picture your future family]. I hoped that I could have kids one day. And I hoped that I could have them in love. I hoped I could be a part of a family that breaks generational curses… it’s happening, and I can’t believe it. The only thing I imagined was probably the forehead on RZA. Riot doesn’t have it. I’m like, wait, are you sure? You can’t lose this thing.”

Then, in 2024, she made her pick for who she’d like to portray her in a biopic, saying, “Taylor Russell. You know why? Because she’s got, like, a nice forehead. She’s, like, fly. And I feel like I want to be her, so I want her to pretend to be me. I want people to see me in that light.”

Ice Spice was booked as one of the headliners of Australia’s Wildlands Festival on New Year’s Eve. It did not go well.

The “Princess Diana” rapper reportedly showed up 25 minutes late for her 30-minute set, and left after only two songs. Videos from the festival show the moment Ice Spice’s mic was cut, eliciting boos from the restless crowd.

“At 11.01 p.m. – they gave her an extra minute – they cut the mic and you heard the collective sigh from the crowd,” podcaster Brenton Larney told the Guardian. “They’d been waiting for a while and they get two songs? So that was a bit ridiculous and it was just really disrespectful how she walked off, she was laughing they tried to give her flowers for her birthday and she just shrugged them off.” He added that it appeared Ice Spice seemed like she “didn’t want to be there… It was just really disrespectful to see.”

Wildlands acknowledged the incident on social media. “We understand that Ice Spice’s delayed arrival caused some frustration,” the festival wrote. “Managing a stacked festival means that we have to be extremely firm with scheduled set times. We had a strict curfew of 12:30 and needed to ensure that Chase & Status went on stage on time so you could all enjoy the NYE Countdown!”

Ice Spice released a deluxe version of her debut album Y2K! on Christmas.

Coi Leray just started off the new year with a bang, by announcing she’s pregnant with her and Trippie Redd’s first baby.

Leray revealed the news last night (January 1), taking to Instagram to share a gallery of photos of her baby bump and of her sharing smiles with Trippie. She wrote in the post’s caption, “I’m a rock star mommy [lips emoji][face holding back tears emoji] we ready for 2025 [black heart emoji].”

In an Instagram Story, she added, “I’m over 4 months. I’m just small as hell of course.”

According to Vibe, Coi and Trippie briefly dated in 2019, but reunited around August 2024.

Trippie addressed the relationship on his 2019 song “Leray,” saying, “The best part of us was me / When you got with me, you were a genius / Now without me, you have to live life as an idiot.” In an interview following the song’s release, Leray responded, “At first, no, I didn’t like it. It was very like, ‘What the f*ck,’ because I always thought we really had something outside of the music. So I’m just like, ‘Damn. If you got something to say, let’s get together and you say that sh*t to my face.’ […] I felt like I’m being used for clickbait.”

But, that’s clearly all water under the bridge now as the pair awaits the arrival of their baby.

There’s no objectively correct answer for the best Danny McBride-created show. They’re all great in different ways: Eastbound & Down for its vulgar twist on the comeback story; Vice Principals for its depiction of white male privilege; and The Righteous Gemstones for its satire of money-hungry televangelists. But since only one of that HBO trilogy has Edi Patterson doing this, screw it, let’s call The Righteous Gemstones the best of the bunch.

Here’s everything we know about The Righteous Gemstones season 4.

Plot

The Righteous Gemstones season 3 ended with Aimee-Leigh’s Force ghost watching her family have the time of their freaking lives while driving a monster truck. This sweet moment of destruction could have been a series finale, but luckily, that is not the case. The Righteous Gemstones will be back for season 4, although plot details are hard to come by. The closest thing we’ve gotten to an update (other than the involvement of “males to portray Civil War Confederate and Union Soldiers”) is what Walton Goggins, who plays Baby Billy, wrote on Instagram once filming wrapped.

“Jokers Wild. This fella… Well… I love him,” he raved about co-star Danny McBride. “And the ones after that, in front of and behind the camera, I love them too. Pros… friends… long time friends. Just wrapped season 4 of the TRG. DMB is a [crown emoji] The Rough House boys are [crown emoji]’s. I did most of em in B/W out of respect for our costume designer and HBO. Can’t wait for you to see what’s in the can. WG.”

Previously, McBride shared to Collider why he enjoys shows that tell a complete story every season.

“I feel like one of the major weaknesses about television, when it comes to comparing it to film, is that a lot of creators use soap opera plotting, where they’re constantly teasing what’s gonna happen and they just keep pushing the ball down the field, but never really give you the answers, never really give you the closure, and never really pay off the things they’re promising because they all just want you to come back for more. I think it’s definitely more interesting to watch something that feels like it could be complete, after you’ve invested six hours of your time watching something, and that feels like it was a complete ride. I get so annoyed, watching shows that end with cliffhangers and knowing that the next season won’t even come around for a year or so. I won’t even give a shit about what was happening, a year from now. That’s happened to me with a lot of shows that I’ve really liked. I watch it, and by the time it’s over, I just find myself feeling like I wasted my time because the concept or the premise or what I was watching was never paid off.

McBride added, “And so, for me, I want every season to feel like, if you’re investing that time, you’re gonna get a complete story, but that the world’s rich enough that it could keep going on.”

Cast

The whole Gemstone extended family is expected to be back, including John Goodman (Eli), Danny McBride (Jesse), Edi Patterson (Judy), Adam DeVine (Kelvin), Cassidy Freeman (Amber), Tony Cavalero (Keefe), Tim Baltz (BJ), Skyler Gisondo (Gideon), Gregalan Williams (Martin), Valyn Hall (Tiffany), and, of course, Walton Goggins (Baby Billy), who looks incredible.

Release Date

The Righteous Gemstones was part of HBO’s “Coming to Max in 2025” video, along with The White Lotus, The Last of Us, and Hacks, but no release date was given. We did, however, get the first footage from the new season.

Folks, we got mustache twins.

Trailer

The closest thing to a trailer for season 4 we’ve seen so far is the “coming in 2025” sizzle reel above. So, instead, it’s time to misbehave.

For the first time in nearly two weeks, Jimmy Butler suited up for the Miami Heat on Wednesday against the New Orleans Pelicans. Of course, a lot has happened in that time, as a report came out that Butler would prefer the Heat move him before the trade deadline, while Pat Riley has made clear that he has no intention of trading his All-Star wing who can hit unrestricted free agency this summer.

Butler has never been shy about his willingness to force his way out of a place when he believes his time is up there, while the Heat are known as some of the toughest negotiators in the NBA. As such, it’s very easy to wonder if something was up with his return from an illness, as Butler was taken out of the game with 3:29 left in the third quarter and did not return. After the game, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra addressed this, and after expressing that it had nothing to do with Miami being on a back-to-back, said that it was exclusively because of his absence.

“Thirteen days is a long time away, and I just went with the group there in the fourth that was getting us the most, and to see if that group could close it out,” Spoelstra said.

Butler played 25 minutes on Wednesday night, going for nine points, four rebounds, and two assists on 3-for-5 shooting from the field. This was one of his two misses. Miami went on to win the game, 119-108, behind 32 points from Tyler Herro and 23 points, 10 assists, nine rebounds, and three steals by Bam Adebayo.

The Detroit Pistons have taken a step forward this year, going from one of the league’s worst teams to a Play-In contender in the Eastern Conference through the first third of the season. As the calendar turns to 2025, there is optimism in Detroit about the way the team is trending, as they seem to be building a solid core.

Cade Cunningham headlines that group, but Jaden Ivey has emerged as a quality backcourt mate for Cunningham, averaging 17.4 points per game this season on career-best efficiency (45.3 percent shooting overall and 39.2 percent from three). On Wednesday against the Magic, Ivey was having a sensational night, scoring 22 points on 8-of-11 shooting before disaster struck when Orlando guard Cole Anthony dove for a loose ball and crashed into Ivey, rolling up his left leg in a gruesome injury (video here, but warning it is graphic).

Ivey was on the floor for some time surrounded by players from both teams while being attended to by the medical staff and was eventually taken off the court on a stretcher, with towels over his injured leg. Anthony was extremely emotional on the court after what was a freak accident when he was just trying to go for the ball that led to what appeared to be a serious injury for the young Pistons guard. Hopefully Ivey will be able to make a full recovery and pick up where he left off this season whenever he is able to return to the court.

New Year’s in New Orleans is one of the biggest celebrations in America. New Orleans is already one of the most vibrant cities in the country, and when you add in a Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day with 80,000+ college football fans coming into town, it gets even bigger.

However, tragedy struck the celebration in New Orleans at the start of 2025 when a man drove a truck through the crowd on Bourbon Street in the early hours of Wednesday morning, killing at least 15 and injuring dozens more. The suspect was killed in a subsequent standoff with police, and the FBI is investigating it as a terrorist attack. That investigation is ongoing and has resulted in the FBI and police doing sweeps of Bourbon Street, the Caesars Superdome, and other highly-trafficked areas, looking to ensure the tragic events of Wednesday morning remained an isolated incident.

The ongoing investigation meant a decision needed to be made on Wednesday afternoon about how they would proceed with the Sugar Bowl, scheduled for Wednesday night at 7:45 p.m. local time between Notre Dame and Georgia. After initially planning on moving forward with the game as scheduled, Sugar Bowl officials met with law enforcement officials on Wednesday and determined the best course of action was to postpone the game, per ABC News. The current plan is to play the game on Thursday, with the game currently being pushed back 24 hours until Thursday.

District Attorney of Orleans Parish Jason Williams told ABC News that the game will be played on Thursday instead of Wednesday night.

“As of right now, it’s only being postponed one day,” Williams said.

As Laura Rutlege of ESPN reported on ABC News, Georgia’s football team has a shelter-in-place order at their hotel and the FBI did a sweep earlier in the day on the Superdome that came back clear to allow people back into the building.

Unlike the high-profile recruitment of his older brother, Bryce James hasn’t received a ton of attention as he tries to figure out where he’s going to play his college ball. And yet, on Wednesday afternoon, the younger son of LeBron and Savannah James announced on his Instagram account that he’s headed to Tuscon to suit up for Tommy Lloyd and the Arizona Wildcats.

According to Jason Scheer of WildcatAuthority.com, James — who 247Sports received an offer from the program on New Year’s Eve — was drawn to Arizona because of “Tommy Lloyd’s ability to develop players and his patience with that process.” On3’s industry ranking has the 6’4 James as a three-star recruit and the number 204 overall player in America.

James plays his high school ball at Sierra Canyon, which was the school that his brother, Bronny, attended before he went to USC. Bronny spent a year with the Trojans before entering the NBA Draft, getting selected by the Los Angeles Lakers, and suiting up alongside his dad. As for whether Bryce, who will not be eligible to enter the league until the 2026 NBA Draft at the earliest, can replicate that remains to be seen, but when he was asked about this recently, he seemed skeptical that LeBron will still be in the league by the time he’s ready to play professionally.

Back when Apple TV+ launched in 2019, nobody could have predicted that the tech giant would soon win the original sci-fi series streaming game. Foundation, Silo, Severance, and Invasion have helped cement this streamer’s reputation, and the granddaddy of them all, For All Mankind, is still kicking. The alternate space-race-history series is gearing up for a fifth season while a spin off, Star City, is preparing to tell the Russian-cosmonauts side of the story.

How long can For All Mankind realistically last? Co-creator Matt Wolpert told Den Of Geek that he (along with co-creators Ronald D. Moore and Ben Nedivi) initially planned for seven seasons, and they’re sticking with it. Apple TV+ announced the fifth season with a declaration that “The future is written in the stars,” so let’s talk about what we can expect from the next leap for mankind.

Plot

Since each For All Mankind season leaps about a decade into the future, viewers will not be surprised to learn that this remains the M.O. That gives plenty of cooling off time between the asteroid heist plan conceived by Dev Ayesa (Edi Gathegi) and agreed to by Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman), and we are also worlds away from the series launching point of 1969 when the Soviet Union beat the U.S. to the Moon. What is certain, however, is that the show will quickly dive into a montage to review what has transpired (after the fourth season’s expansion on Mars) in the most recent decade when the story picks up in 2012, although valid questions remain on whether Ed remains onboard with Happy Valley (or is even alive) following his visibly declining health.

Ben Nedivi told Slashfilm that the montage-making process is as “hellish” as it seems, and although Apple TV+ has been quiet about the forthcoming plot, there is (as mentioned) a seven-season plan. The co-creators conceded to Variety that we might see some legacy characters begin to retire. At this time, no concrete hints point toward Ed Baldwin heading toward the Martian sunset, but we might have seen the last of Margo (Wrenn Schmidt) following her imprisonment, and Dani (Krys Marshall) miraculously landed back on earth with Marshall previously telling Entertainment Weekly that she had no clue whether her character was done with the series.

Rest assured that Mars will very much remain a setting in the fifth season, as revealed by Deadline’s casting news for new characters on the red planet. As expected, though, fifth-season secrecy has permeated every bit of press from the show’s creatives, but Matt Wolpert did tell Variety that the fourth-season asteroid heist by Dev will not be forgotten when the series picks up:

“Dev felt like the right character, because from the beginning of his introduction on the show, he has had this vision of what the space program could be, and specifically what life on Mars could be. He’s starting to see his vision come to fruition at the end of this season, so it felt like both showing him be content with what’s done to this point, and still looking to the future of what’s next. In terms of the asteroid, it is mining equipment you see, but let’s just say it will definitely play a role in Season 5 in a way we can’t quite say yet.”

In addition to the near silence on a plot synopsis for this fifth season, Apple TV+ hasn’t disclosed whether Star City will launch in between For All Mankind seasons, although since franchise creators want to continue for at least three more seasons of the Kinnaman-starring show, timing overlap seems likely.

Cast

Series creatives haven’t revealed whether returning Joel Kinnaman will be accompanied back to the aging-makeup chair by Wrenn Schmidt, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña, Krys Marshall, Tyner Rushing, Daniel Stern, Toby Kebbell, and/or Svetlana Efremova.

New series regulars include Mireille Enos and Costa Ronin along with Sean Kaufman as Alex Poletov Baldwin, grandson of Kinnaman’s Ed Baldwin. Ruby Cruz is onboard as Lily Dale, and Ines Asserson will portray U.S. Marine A.J. Jarrett, who’s gearing up for a space mission. Additionally, Barrett Carnahan (recently seen as Young Kreese in Cobra Kai) will portray “‘Marcus,’ a recent high school graduate living on Mars).”

Release Date

Apple TV+ announced the fifth season in April 2024, and the series has generally returned after less than two years

Trailer

No trailer, but the DMX needle drop after the below “Do you want to help me steal an asteroid?” line can go hard enough for now.