Top 10 Latest Teen Music Albums You Need to Hear This Year (2026)

When our 'Koko Mojo', exploration began, you could imagine hickory wood burning in drums at southern shacks, where our blues artists would gather together eat BBQ meat and drink whiskey. The concept of these albums allowed us to delve deeply and mix a variety of wide-ranging black rhythm chosen by the theme of birth. The albums music mix as always is eclectic, we hear travelling blues boy Eddie Burns, a man who worked full time and music was for the evening 'Hot Shot' Love, and a highly educated member of Ike Turner's band, the Sly Fox, legend Muddy Waters serves up a pivotal rocking blues plea with Hammond organ not overpowering the song. Two artists Washboard Sam and Memphis Slim are present in duo recordings which they made with Mississippi Bred performers. We end this exploration with two artists who gained fame in the pop music charts Sam Cooke and Jerry Butler. This 'Koko Mojo' album is compiled by well-known Dee Jay and face on the music scene Mark Armstrong, who has been Dee Jaying since his early teen years. Our albums have; stunning design, sleeve notes, 28 songs, mastered for the best possible sound. The disc is housed in an attractively designed cardboard sleeve, specially designed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly. The album is great to play at home and perfect for Dee Jays who will find good dance-floor filling songs.

"That'll Get It", Southern Bred Texas R&B Rockers (Koko Mojo KMCD046) takes us deeper into Texas sand and collects a plethora of Rhythm & Blues artists born in the big 't 'State. The concept of these albums allows to source a variety of wide-ranging choice of music chosen by the theme of birth, which makes the aural sound of the album different to that of a label-based collection. Sitting comfortably side by side are Country Blues Shufflers, Rhythm & Blues and Rock 'N' Roll music. The mixed variety of artists include the famous; Joe Tex and His X Classmate, hit maker Bobby Day, saxophone master's Jesse Powell and Joe Houston (here with a vocal recording). Piano boogie is heard from Floyd Dixon, Katie Webster, Camille Howard and Mercy Dee Walton. Variety of style is heard from Lightnin' Hopkins and Harmonica Slim from their stomping Blues sounds. The electric side of Rhythm & Blues is heard via living legends; Roy Gaines and Ray Sharpe who both pick a mean and wild guitar. As with every album there is more music to hear and enjoy. This Koko Mojo album is compiled by well-known Dee Jay and face on the music scene Mark Armstrong, who has been Dee Jaying since his early teen years. Our albums have; stunning design, sleeve notes, twenty-eight songs, mastered for the best possible sound. The disc is housed in an attractively designed cardboard sleeve, specially designed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly. The album is great to play at home and perfect for Dee Jays who will find good dance-floor filling songs. The recordings are all killers and no fillers. The album is great to play at home and perfect for Dee Jays who will find good dance-floor filling songs.

The concept of these albums allows a variety of wide-ranging black music chosen by the theme of birth to be collected onto the albums. This makes the aural sound of the series different from that of a label-based collection. The mixed variety of artists include hitmakers, Bobby Day, Ray Sharpe and Marie Adams from the Johnny Otis Show. Piano rockers are heard from; Roy Hawkins, Floyd Dixon, Ivory Joe Hunter, Charles Brown and Amos Milburn and chanteuse Camille Howard all of whom offer different techniques of keyboard playing. The Downhome Blues comes from traditional roots performers; Harmonica Slim and Lightnin' Hopkins. The guitar Blues artists include Pee Wee Crayton, Barbara Lynn, and Freddy King and with horns to drive the song along Cal Valentine and The Texas Rockers have a catchy hook in their instrumental tune. The album climaxes with the wild and raucous Blues rocker from Young Jessie. Together all the artists featured perform a variety of music and many styles of Roots music are featured on I'm Tore Down. As with every album, there is more music to hear and enjoy and the vibrant music has a pleasing up-tempo feel throughout. This 'Koko Mojo' album is compiled by well-known Dee Jay and face on the music scene Mark Armstrong, who has been Dee Jaying since his early teen years. Our albums have; stunning design, sleeve notes, 28 songs, mastered for the best possible sound available. The disc is housed in an attractively designed cardboard sleeve, specially designed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly. The album is great to play at home and perfect for Dee Jays who will find good dance-floor filling songs.

'Pine State Honky Tonk' (Atomicat ACCD017) begins our journey through Hillbilly Music Culture with an exploration of the tunes that laid the groundwork for the transformation in the music industry, from Country Boogie through to the changing direction of the Hillbilly genre. The aim of these albums is to; entertain and introduce people to the various styles of Hillbilly, Western Swing and Country Honky Tonk music throughout the series. The five albums in this series will focus on tunes with a dance tempo, some great foot tapping ditties with one or two instrumentals to vary the flavour. We do not join in the debate "what was the first Rock 'N' Roll song?", too much conjecture, the music is here to be enjoyed and danced to and is mainly but not exclusively pre Rock 'N' Roll music. These are albums compiled by rocking people, for rocking people and one man's jive is another man's bop, and the music is here to be played not strictly categorised Artists featured include; Western King supremo's Pee Wee King, Hank Penny, Jerry Irby and Leon McAuliffe as an introduction to the genre. Hillbilly Boogie comes from "Little" Jimmy Dickens, Red Foley, and Tennessee Ernie. The Hillbilly Cats are; Al Terry Gene O'Quin, Johnny Tyler and Jack Tucker. Patsy Cline and Bonnie Lou more than compete with the featured male artists. This is an introduction and there is more to discover on this and the forth coming four volumes. This 'Atomicat' album is compiled by well-known Dee Jay and face on the music scene Mark Armstrong, who has been Dee Jaying since his early teen years. Our albums have; stunning design, sleeve notes, 28 songs, mastered for the best possible sound available. The disc is housed in an attractively constructed cardboard sleeve, specially designed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly. The album is great to play at home and perfect for Dee Jays who will find good dance-floor filling songs.

This 'Atomicat' CD, 'With This Ring' (ACCD007) will take a tongue in cheek exploration of Caucasian relationships through songs. Our sister label 'Koko Mojo', 'Feelin' Good', (KMCD41) will offer another approach and explore Negro relationships. The 28-track album is mainly up-tempo dance-based songs, with a couple of slow numbers which fit the theme of relationships from beginning and for some an early ending. The songs are an eclectic mixture of rockin' styles, rock 'n' roll, rockabilly with a sprinkling of country and teen rockers all looking at love from the white person perspective. The jukebox industry certainly made 'Greenbacks' from the record-buying public who related to the music, and the songs are as relevant today as the day they were recorded. The albums sleeve notes are written in a story style, and we offer some information about the artist. Some of the albums featured artists are; saxophone maestro Sam Butera, his onetime boss Louis Prima, hillbillies Dave Rich and Faron Young. Also singing about the life of romance are rockers; Dorsey Burnette, Gene Vincent, Bob Hicks and more. This 'Atomicat' album is compiled by well-known Dee Jay and face on the music scene Mark Armstrong, who has been Dee Jaying since his early teen years. Our albums have; stunning design, sleeve notes, 28 songs, mastered for the best possible sound available. The disc is housed in an attractively designed cardboard sleeve, specially designed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly. The album is great to play at home and perfect for Dee Jays who will find good dance-floor filling song

This is the first new Andy Boay album since 2013's In The Light. I recorded it in January 2024 to a Yamaha MT8X 8-track cassette recorder in my room at the New York Center for Creativity & Dance in the East Village of Manhattan. I mixed it in June 2024 with Joe Santarpia and Roberto Pagano at the Idiot Room in San Francisco. The three songs on Side A ("HBM," "If I Ever Come Off," and "You're In The Air Now") were initially arranged over several live performances using a multi-track looper. When I then sat down to track them to my tape machine, I meticulously sang and played out all repeating parts, layering and ping-pong-bouncing each doubled take to another tape-track. In this way I hoped to maintain the hypnotic quality of the looped parts while keeping them organic, singular, and fleeting. Side B is a triptych of more carefully arranged pop songs: a tremolo & mod-delay elegy to youth called "Careless," bookended by two variations on the same theme - the stark, mellotron prayer of "One & One" and the lonesome after-hours funk of "I Want More".The line "You took that walk for the two of us" has a dual meaning. In 2011, my friend Spencer Gilley took a long walk through Montreal while listening to demos I'd recorded. He described the experience to me as magical, ecstatic, inspiring. His encouragement from that moment still echoes every time I sit down to write or record. Less than a year later, I met Florida musician Thomas Fekete. We formed a deep, brief friendship that lasted until his death in 2016. Thom entered my life during a chaotic time and helped me find direction and courage. He took me on a tour that shifted the course of my life. We bonded over surviving cancer as young men, Florida's noise scene, and the strange lives we led as touring guitarists (he in Surfer Blood, me in Mac DeMarco's band). Thom could always warmly anticipate all of my joy, humor, and curiosity-and all of my pain, anxiety, and fear. In this way, it felt like he was also taking that walk for the two of us-gently guiding me down a path he had already traveled. Andy Boay (Andy White) began playing and recording music as a teen in Orlando during the early 2000s, exploring noise, psych, and pop in bands and solo projects. He has played in the duo Tonstartssbandht with his brother Edwin since 2007. He spent six years playing guitar in the touring band for Mac DeMarco. Andy Boay's music taps the euphoric and the sorrowful, both onstage amongst friends and strangers, and tracking alone at his 8-track in the studio. These days he lives and works in the East Village neighborhood of New York City.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release, the sixth studio album by singer Demi Lovato. Tell Me You Love Me features worldwide smash "Sorry Not Sorry," which has surpassed 100M global audio streams. She joined forces with hitmakers Oak (Alessia Cara, Kehlani), DJ Mustard (Rihanna, Tinashe), Sean Douglas (Dua Lipa, Fifth Harmony) and others. The album is a follow up to RIAA gold-certified album Confident, which was Grammy-nominated for Best Pop Album. She's one of the biggest names on social media, with a combined following of over 150 million. Lovato has received a considerable number of accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, 13 Teen Choice Awards, five People's Choice Awards, an ALMA Award, and a Latin American Music Award.

40 years of soul and blues mining has given Kent access to some killer previously locked-away tunes for this third volume in our mod series. A hitherto unheard 1964-vintage Ike & Tina track is big news: the duo's performance on 'Walk Home With Me' features a somewhat square-sounding male chorus which only adds to the charm of this excellent Buck Ram-produced number. The vocal pairing of Aaron Collins' two sisters, the Teen Queens, was a brief music sensation with 'Eddie My Love' in the 50s but, unknown until last year, the three siblings got together and cut four tracks for Modern in 1966, including the gritty mover 'Ooh Baby'. Birdlegs & Pauline encapsulated the mystery of collecting soul records in the 60s and 70s. Their 'Spring' was an obscure-as-hell mod classic on the iconic UK Sue label, issued in 1966 on a Guy Stevens whim three years after it's US release. What a bizarre name it was for a singing act; they sounded more like a music hall novelty turn. The song hit but the duo split up and there was not even a follow-up. An album's worth of tracks was recorded, though, and has recently come to light, from which 'Just Can't Help Myself' was probably even better suited for the UK's mod market, if only they had known. Laidback soul from New Orleans and it's environs is prominent. Willie Tee gives us 'Who Knows', a 1963 recording that lay dormant until it's release on Ace in 1994. Eddie Bo cut his R&B gem 'I Found A Little Girl' that same year. Eddie Shuler's Goldband and Anla labels provide a rarity from Ike Porter, an early funk masterclass from Clifton White, previously unreleased rhythm'n'soul gems from King Karl and Rockin' Sidney, and an unissued popcorn-style ballad from Sticks Herman which is destined for Europe-wide spins. Up to the Big Apple, where Arock's Garrett Saunders and Gary Klyvert sang as Gary & Gary on 'Deuces Wild', the way-punchier flip of the duo's Northern Soul number 'I'm Leaving (For Parts Unknown)'. Charles Hodges' hip take of the Gershwin's 'Lady Be Good', Willis Jackson's storming jazz 'Soul Grabber' and Chuck Jackson's 'Lonely Am I', though, are more elegant examples of NYC soul. Back in Los Angeles, where future collectibles such as 'Drop That Gun' by Teddy Reynolds and 'Monkey Walk' by the Kingsmen were being pressed. From the same city comes the topical 1962 sound of 'Air Travel' by Ray & Bob, as covered in the UK by the young Chris Farlowe; the Fashionettes' 'Earthquake', which spotlights the girl group sound, so symbolic of the 60s; and Jackie Lee's 'The Bounce', which conjures up images of shimmering discotheque lights and go-go dancers strutting their stuff.

Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes digital download and poster. 2019 release, the second studio album by Khalid. Features the single 'Talk'. Khalid's debut studio album, American Teen, was released on March 3, 2017. Khalid's music is primarily R&B and pop. He sings in both the baritone and tenor ranges, effectively rendering him a baritenor. Khalid cites Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky, Father John Misty, Frank Ocean, Grizzly Bear, Chance the Rapper, Lorde, India. Arie, and James Blake as influences.

Benidito King was born in Philadelphia to Vashti Torrienti Adams and a guy named Ben E. King (yes, THAT Ben E. King). With a father renowned for iconic hits like "Stand By Me" and "This Magic Moment," and a mother who was a well-known dancer, singer and pianist, Benidito de?nitely has the music in him. By the age of eight, his passion for music and his talent for singing came to light as he began to perform Michael Jackson songs for his family and friends. His interest in singing and performing continued into his teen years and eventually led him to consider pursuing music as a career. When he was 14, Benidito joined a band called "Prophecy" which ended up merging with his brother's band "Wicked Funk " to form a mega-band called what else?... "Prophecy and Wicked Funk!" This combined band almost got signed to Sun Records but somehow missed the ?ight to California for a showcase and that was that... opportunity lost. In 1986, Benidito signed to Philly World Records and recorded his ?rst single, "Anything (You Want)" at Alpha International Studios. The single was successful in Europe and is still selling to this day on iTunes, Amazon and eBay. After taking a bit of a break from the music business, he eventually returned to songwriting and collaborated with his son R. Tastik on the songs "Body Close To Mine" and "Sylvia." Most recently, Benidito has signed with Society Hill Records in the continued effort to share his inherent talents with the world, and to fully embrace the legacy of his late father. Working with legendary Philly Soul producer Butch Ingram, Benidito confidently glides through a program of some of his favorite songs from his father's catalog, as well as the tune "I'm A King," written specifically for Benedito by Ingram. Throughout the record, Benidito's passion for the music shines through - proving the age-old adage: "The apple never falls far from the tree."