5 New Albums To Check Out On December 5, 2025

Tacos may rule Tuesdays, but Fridays are all about new albums. This week’s list of new releases features offerings from Olivia Rodrigo and Zac Brown Band, as well as the soundtrack to the recently released Bruce Springsteen biopic, “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.” Whether you favor CDs, vinyl, or digital downloads, it is time to start making your shopping list. Here is a look at this week’s new music and five new albums that you definitely need to check out this Friday

Olivia Rodrigo — Live from Glastonbury: A BBC Recording (Geffen)

This Friday, Olivia Rodrigo will release her first live album, recorded live at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in March. Live from Glastonbury: A BBC Recording features 20 songs, including hits like “Deja Vu,” “Drivers License,” “Vampire,” and “Good 4 U.” The Cure’s Robert Smith joins Rodrigo and covers of his band’s “Friday I’m in Love” and “Just Like Heaven.” The album is available on vinyl (pictured), CD, and digital download.

Zac Brown Band — Love & Fear (Master of None)

Zac Brown Band will release their eighth studio album this week, entitled Love & Fear. The Grammy-winning country act’s new album will feature collaborations with Dolly Parton, Marcus King, and Snoop Dogg. The latter is featured on the album’s lead single, “Let It Run,” which debuted back in July. The band will promote the new album with an eight-show residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, spread out over December and January. The residency will kick off with a show on Friday to coincide with the album’s release.

Jeremy Allen White — Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Columbia)

In October, the Bruce Springsteen biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” hit theaters across the United States. On Friday, the soundtrack from the film hits stores. The album features actor Jeremy Allen White singing Springsteen classics like “Born in the U.S.A.,” “I’m on Fire,” and “State Trooper.” It is uncanny how much White sounds like “The Boss.” Members of Greta Van Fleet also appear on the soundtrack as well.

Scorpions — Coming Home Live (Spinefarm/Vertigo/BMG)

German rockers the Scorpions are back with a new live album this Friday. Listen as Rudolph Schenker, Klaus Meine, and the band celebrate their 60th anniversary with a concert back home in Hanover, West Germany. The concert album features 19 songs, including hits like “Big City Nights,” Rock You Like a Hurricane,” ‘Still Loving You,” “Wind of Change,” and “No One Like You.”

Roddy Ricch — The Navy Album (Atlantic)

Roddy Ricch’s new effort, The Navy Album, has endured five delays, but the long-awaited third studio album seems poised to finally drop on Friday. The lead single for the record, “Survivor’s Remorse,” was released 18 months ago, with Kelly Clarkson getting a co-writer credit on the song. Late last, the second single, “Lonely Road,” surfaced, featuring Terrace Martin on Saxophone. Now it seems the rest of the album is finally going to see the light of day as well.

The Best of the Rest

If none of the above releases fit your musical tastes, here are some of the other new albums and re-releases due out on December 21:

Alison Wonderland — Ghost World (EMI/Republic)
Anna of the North — Girl In A Bottle (Play It Again Sam)
Annie DiRusso — Super Pedestrian: Deluxe Edition (Summer Soup Songs)
Big K.R.I.T. — Dedicated To Cadalee Biarritz Vol. 1 (Multi Alumni)
Blood Red Throne — Siltskin (Soulseller Records)
Boz Scaggs — Detour (Concord)
Cleopatrick — Scrap (Nowhere Special Recordings)
Confidence Man — Active Scenes Vol. One EP (Chaos)
Daniel Knox — Mercado 48 (H.P. Johnson Presents)
Depeche Mode — Memento Mori: Mexico City (Columbia)
Despite Exile — Where Hope Goes To Die (Blood Blast)
Dove Ellis — Blizzard (Black Butter/AMF)
Enthroned — Ashspawn (Season of Mist)
Erick Sermon — Dynamic Duos Vol. 1 (DNA/Hitmaker)
The Game & DJ Drama — Every Movie Needs A Trailer Mixtape (Generation Now)
Isobel Waller-Bridge — Objects (Mercury KX)
JADE — That’s Showbiz Baby! The Encore: Deluxe Edition (Crash)
Jimmy Somerville — Dare To Love: Remastered & Expanded (London Records)
John Powell & Stephen Schwartz — Wicked: For Good The Original Motion Picture Score (Republic)
Judy Collins — The ’60s Singles (Real Gone/Second Disc)
Kim Wilde — Closer: Expanded/Deluxe Edition (Cherry Red)
Kylie Minogue — Kylie Christmas: Fully Wrapped (Warner Records)
MC5 — MC50: 10 More Live (earMusic)
Melody’s Echo Chamber — Unclouded (Domino)
Milk & Bone — A Little Lucky (Nettwerk Music Group)
Neal Acree — The Mighty Nein: The Prime Original Series Soundtrack (Lakeshore Records)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Live God (Bad Seed)
NOFX — NOFX A-H (Fat Wreck Chords/Hopeless Records)
Pablo Nouvelle — 2025 (Universal Music)
Peyton Parrish — EvangelCore 1 (self-release)
St. Lucia — Fata Morgana: Dusk (Nettwerk Records)
Sam Fender — People Watching: Deluxe Edition (Capitol)
Simon Franglen — Avatar: Fire and Ash The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Hollywood)
Sting — The Last Ship: Expanded Edition (Universal Music)
Tears for Fears — Songs from the Big Chair: 40 Anniversary Expanded Edition (Universal Music)
TEED — Always With Me (Nice Age)
The The — Odyssey (earMusic)
Ultravox — The Collection: Deluxe Edition (Chrysalis)
Various Artists — Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, & Asylum Seekers (Western Vinyl)
The Waterboys — The Waterboys Present: Rips From The Cutting Room Floor (Sun Records)
The Wombats — Oh! The Ocean: Extended Version (AWAL Recordings)