The Minnesota music scene was in high form in 2025. Aside from gaining a new high-profile local, several of the state’s cherished artists put out new music this past year.

Samia - Bovine Excision

Bon Iver - S P E Y S I D E

Durry - This Movie Sucks

Polica - Dreams Go

Porch Light - Fall Back

Atmosphere - Really

Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles - Stranger

Night Moves - Hold On to Tonight

she's green - graze

Gary Louris - Getting Older

Motion City Soundtrack - She Is Afraid

Wild Horses - Sioux Falls

Yam Haus - One Bullet Left

Laamar - Right Person

Your Smith - Change of Heart

Gully Boys - Love Me 2

Mother Soki - Rivet Gun

Nur-D - Chunkadelic

IAMJOY - Lilac Season

runo plum - Sickness

Kiss The Tiger - Every Little Piece of Me

Kellan Christopher Cragg - I REMEMBER WHEN I WOKE UP

Jeremy Messersmith - Billionaires

Mason Jennings - Castles

Black Market Brass - Battle Ready feat. Obi Original

Maygen and The Birdwatcher - Feel Good

Anna Graves - Hollow Bones

8umana - Vocal Fry

High School for Recording Arts - And We're Back On The Ground

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