New Music June 2026: Tank & The Bangas, Jessica Roch, RYAT, Phosphene, Anour
Herizon Music's Black Music Month standout album | PRIDE v Proud
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New Music: Tank & The Bangas, Jessica Roch, RYAT, Phosphene, Anour
Tank And The Bangas, New Orleans
The Last Balloon (funky R&B with hip-hop flare)
The Last Balloon is Herizon Music’s standout album for Black Music Month 2026. Tarriona “Tank” Ball and Norman Spence have done NOLA proud since winning 2017’s NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest. Collaborating with locals across all album tracks, TATB serves up a spicy genre gumbo: R&B, Afro Pop (Shirazee collaborating), funk, soul, and hip-hop. My dance floor banger as a recovering people pleaser: “Whole World.” Surprisingly, this GenX Deadhead keeps circling back to the tongue-in-cheek trap rap “No Invite,” which says a lot about TATB’s ability to attract diverse audiences. There is something for everyone, so give it a spin.
RYAT, New York
Pulse (experimental, beat couture)
Multimedia artist RYAT (Christina Teleaer) composes, produces, choreographs, directs, films, and dances through Pulse, her first avant-pop album since 2015. “Gone Gone Gone” is the single melding nature and physical human movement. But the track “End of the Road” captivated me sonically and visually. First performed on stage as a live improv, RYAT birthed a Black Mirror-esque video and composition that need to be experienced concurrently for the full tripped-out effect. Follow her on Substack.
Jessica Roch, England
“Par” (ambient)
My sunroom is morphing into an evening spiritual sanctuary. Music sister Myrsini intuitively gifted me an aurora borealis light that floats above tiny laser stars across the vaulted ceiling and mandala tapestry. Jessica Roch’s electronic instrumental “Par” expands her classically-trained piano and violin sensibilities to modern adult playscapes like mine. Thanks to Roch, my celestial nightly ritual turns troubles into space dust. Follow her on Substack.
Listen on Qobuz https://tidd.ly/4vijDpu
Phosphene, Portland
Velveteen (indie rock)
This is the fourth album for West Coast duo Rachel Frankel and Matt Hemmerich. In spite of leading piano interplay and Frankel’s legato timbre, guitar solos and prominent percussive work balance the feminine and masculine with a modern nod to 90’s indie rock stylings. They’ve quickly become MusicStack darlings for a reason. The single “Wire” is a college radio DJ’s “you heard it here first” hit. Fitting for two artists who met at San Francisco State University. Follow on Substack.
Listen on Qobuz: https://tidd.ly/4aUTRiP
Anour, Montreal
“Love Should Feel Good” (cinematic pop)
Picture it: a Netflix chick flick soundtrack where the heroine finally breaks her pattern of falling for the wrong guy again and again. Song credits include a team tied to Celine Dion— a cinematic pop role model if there ever was one. International roots (speaking French, Arabic, and English fluently) fashioned Anour into a musical and vocal chameleon that serves her aspirations well. “Love Should Feel Good” pairs perfectly with popcorn and a girls’ night limited series binge. Album release due out this summer.
Side note: Anour’s hard-to-find Latin album is only on Qobuz. It’s worth the listen!
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Proud v PRIDE
Herizon Music posted “Joan Jett’s Life Lessons For Stirring Up Good Trouble” for PRIDE month 2025. This year, it bears reposting as we continue to hear the argument that gay PRIDE is a deadly sin. Like Inigo Montoya famously stated in the classic fairytale film The Princess Bride:
Paraphrasing my thoughts from the article, PRIDE Month serves as a reminder that we need women in music representing all walks of life, of all ages, all colors, all socio-economic backgrounds to give us courage. To provide comfort and understanding when family or community fall woefully short or are downright cruel. One song or speech could make the difference between a person moving forward or giving up.
I am a Gen X hetero woman who celebrates diversity because it makes us all better humans and spiritual beings. Loving and respecting your neighbor is the right thing to do. Hard stop.
PRIDE reminds people that love and freedom to love transcends the chains of oppression. When people use religious scripture to condemn the PRIDE movement, I ask: Who are you or I to judge others based on a sense of moral superiority? That mentality is the definition of sinful pride. PRIDE month destroys sinful pride in a colorful celebration of equality not superiority.
I featured the article “The Deadly Sin of Pride” by Dr. Paul Sands (Associate Professor of Theology, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University) as a thought-provoking essay on pride. Since then, Baylor has removed the article and Dr. Sands is no longer a professor at Baylor. Thankfully, you can read it at StudyLib.net.
Herizon Music celebrates the Chinese Year Of The Fire Horse with a limited edition T-shirt! “The Horse symbolizes freedom, vitality, and unstoppable drive. When combined with the Fire element, its energy becomes even more intense—fueling ambition, passion, and rapid change."
Let’s wrap up with PRIDE articles from MusicStackers.
Thank you for joining our band of dreamers, rule breakers, and rockstars. Love and light to you.
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Why am I not surprised about that Baylor situation? They'll go out of their way to protect rapists, sexual predators and murderers on their athletic teams but they'll be damned if anybody tries to broach a reasonable discussion that's anything other than what the bible says. Baylor gonna continue to Baylor.