While the headlines will go to Bowie, Blur, Charli XCX, and The Cure, the real magic of RSD lies deeper in the list — in the obscure, the unexpected, the cult treasures waiting quietly in the racks. Below is MusoMuso’s hand‑picked selection of ten under‑the‑radar releases that deserve your attention. These are the records that won’t make the tabloids but will absolutely make a collector’s year.

The Damned have never really been an arena band. Half the time, they’re barely a band at all — more a loose collective of misfits glued together by a shared love of noise, chaos, and the sheer joy of doing whatever the hell they want. Their shows often feel like they’re teetering on the brink of collapse, as if they’re making it all up on the spot.

And yet, somehow, it always works.

With zero announcements or teasers from the band, Enter Shikari have today surprise released their brand-new album! Lose Your Self (released via So Recordings) spans 12 tracks exploring themes of desolation, futility and complete despair at the state of the world, but with glimmers of hopefulness and optimism threaded throughout.

“Dagger feels like the best of everything we’ve ever done” - A deeper conversation with Mat Peters about momentum, identity and the power of a well‑built album

Every so often a debut single arrives that feels oddly familiar, not because you’ve heard the artist before, but because something in it brushes up against your own memories. Bella Cutts’ Run Like a Child is one of those rare ones. It’s gentle and reflective, quietly courageous, and it doesn’t try to dazzle you. It simply opens the door and lets you step inside.

There’s a particular electricity that crackles whenever someone from the Ramones universe steps back up to the mic. Not nostalgia — something sharper, more alive. That’s exactly the energy powering CJ SAYS, a brand‑new podcast launching April 23rd and helmed by none other than CJ Ramone himself.

Julia Wolf has never been an artist who moves quietly. From the moment her RIAA Gold‑certified single In My Room began its slow‑burn takeover of streaming platforms, it was clear she was building toward something bigger — something that demanded a room full of people singing her words back at her. This autumn, she finally gets that moment.

Dermot Kennedy has always written like someone carrying the weight of the world in his chest — but on The Weight of the Woods, that weight finally feels shared. Released this week via Island Records, his third album is a return to the source: the land, the folklore, the quiet corners of rural Ireland that shaped him long before the stadiums and streaming numbers did.

The Meffs have carved their path the hard way — DIY releases, zero industry backing, and a stubborn refusal to soften their edges. Now, with UK radio finally paying attention, a rapidly growing hometown festival, and their angriest album yet on the horizon, the duo are stepping into a new chapter without losing the fire that got them here. In this candid conversation, Lily and Lewis talk streaming pennies, punk politics, touring chaos, and why Business might be their most urgent work to date.

There’s a particular kind of band whose sound feels less like a collection of songs and more like a weather system rolling in. South West psych‑gaze quartet COSM have been quietly building that reputation over the past few years — and this spring, they’re taking it on the road for their ‘Black Holes’ UK Tour, celebrating the release of their shimmering new single Black Holes.

Dry Cleaning have always occupied their own strange, magnetic corner of British guitar music — a place where deadpan poetry, wiry riffs and surreal emotional snapshots collide. With their third album Secret Love already hailed as “a surrealist masterpiece” and earning Album of the Week/Month nods across the board, the London quartet are stepping confidently into a new chapter. And now, ahead of a huge run of European, UK, North American and Australasian dates, they’ve dropped a brand‑new single: ‘Sliced by a Fingernail’.

Inside Bristol Beacon, the demographic was unmistakable: this was a gathering of the musically seasoned. The majority of the audience were 50+, the generation who lived through the acid‑jazz explosion the first time around. And honestly, it suited the room. A seated show initially felt surprising, but as the night unfolded, it became clear that the setup offered the best of both worlds — space to dance, space to breathe, and space to soak in musicianship without distraction.

For most people, a gig is a night out. For Glenn Morrison, it became a decade‑long document of a community in motion — a living archive of sweat‑fogged rooms, raised fists, and the kind of catharsis only Frank Turner can summon.

British progressive metal musician Grace Hayhurst is gearing up for a milestone moment this spring, announcing her first-ever headline show at London’s iconic Black Heart on March 26th. It’s a well-earned step forward for an artist who has spent the past few years quietly, and fiercely, carving out her own corner of the UK prog scene. We caught up with Grace to find out a bit more about her and the show itself.

There are gigs that feel like a booking, and then there are gigs that feel like a moment. The Bluetones landing at Things Happen Here firmly belongs in the latter camp — a full‑band, electric, up‑close show from one of the UK’s most quietly enduring indie institutions, right in the heart of Dartington.

When Iron Maiden announced they’d be taking over Knebworth for a full weekend in July 2026, the rock world already felt the tremors. But with the latest additions to the bill, EDDFEST has transformed from a major anniversary event into a once‑in‑a‑lifetime pilgrimage for Maiden fans — and a rare chance to see the band on UK soil before they disappear from the country’s stages until at least 2028.

When we sat down for an hour‑plus conversation—recorded just two days before their sold‑out album launch at The Underground on Mutley Plain—we roamed through the full landscape of who they are and how they’ve carved out their place in the South West scene. From the moment they explained how they finally settled on that band name, to the origins of their formation, to the way they describe their genre‑bending sound, nothing was off the table.

Three decades after they first detonated onto the late‑90s landscape, Republica are stepping back into the spotlight with a full UK tour across October and November 2026 — a run that promises to reconnect fans with the fierce, neon‑lit energy that made them one of Britpop’s most distinctive forces.

Burn It Down Festival has dropped a seismic announcement for its 2026 edition: Australian hardcore heavyweights Speed will headline the Saturday of the seaside weekender, bringing a no‑barrier set to Torquay’s English Riviera.

A reunion, a revisiting, a revival: whatever you want, you can pretty much have. Four men on the wrong / right side of 50, plus the perennially cool Mick Talbot emerge blinking but defiant. There’s no new LP to plug, no biography - you can’t even call it payola like that recent Pistols charade. Above all, the songs are what matter and, my goodness, the quality and depth is scrawled all over the stage in blood, sweat and all of the years gone by since the mid-1990’s.