The Unofficial Archivist will keep you (and ourselves!) updated with everything thats coming up as far as known releases of music from Brandi Carlile (the person and band) every year. (Mainly doing this so we can keep track ourselves. Hope it helps you!) – Drop a note if you hear about more.
We started in 2023, properly listing. If you want a year by year breakdown of BC activity – head over to “Through the Years”
2026 so far….
Human (Live with the BBC Concert Orchestra) – Released 6th February
Rubber Band Man – Mumford & Sons – song of new album Prizefighter – Brandi Carlile writing credit. Released 20th Februrary
America The Beautiful (Live) – Live recording of Brandi Carlile at the Superbowl with Sista Strings, February 8, 2026.
Announced, Rumored in the past and not yet released.
New The Highwomen album coming – Feburuary 22 reported by Rolling Stone.
“We’re getting together to do another one,” Carlile told Rolling Stone in an interview following her headlining concert in Minneapolis on Saturday night. “I’m done keeping secrets.”
Brandi Carlile – Live at Easy Street Records Vol II -Record Store Day 2026 April 18
Sister Strings. Announced in Variety on September 26, 2023. Brandi Carlile told Chris Willman about month long recording session coming up. 2024 release maybe? Brandi has said in a Bramily only Q & A in January 2024 she’s still working on the album with them.
The evolutionary leaps Carlile wants to see in Americana aren’t just ideological. Can neo-classical music fall under the banner, too? Talking about SistaStrings — who did one epic instrumental that sounded like it belonged over at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, followed by two more pop-based vocal numbers — Carlile said, “I can’t imagine a month in my life that’s going to be more fun than” producing the duo’s next album. “It must be what it must have been like to witness when artists like Elton John and Queen and David Bowie and the Rolling Stones, along with (producer-arrangers) like George Martin and Paul Buckmaster, brought strings into rock ‘n’ roll and into modern consciousness, out of this kind of classical, esoteric space into what people were hearing on the radio. I think that the next thing that has the power to do that is SistaStrings, legitimately.”
Chris Willman Variety.
Book – musical accompaniment. Brandi Carlile has stated that there will be new recordings that will accompany a new book from Brandi and Catherine Carlile. It’s a non-fiction, type of memoir. Details yet unknown and release date yet unknown. (first shared at a fan-only event in May 2024)
