Susanna Hoffs, co-founder and frontwoman of The Bangles, has released a beautiful new album of all-original music on her own record label, Baroque Folk. Titled The List, the Sept. 18, 2026, album “is what happens when an artist and her closest friends gather around the kitchen table and share the stories that define one’s life: heartbreak, an empty nest, a new crush, foolish mistakes and the fading memory of what that might have been,” says the announcement for the album. “Hoffs turns her deepest, decade-spanning memories into 12 songs that not only reflect what it has meant to be alive and in love, but turn the page to a new chapter in her astounding artistic legacy,” the press release continues.

Recorded live in her Los Angeles home, and produced with CJ Camerieri (Bon Iver, Paul Simon, yMusic), The List features collaborations with Rufus Wainwright, Dan Wilson, Edie Brickell, Greg Leisz, Ryan Lerman, Desure, Jesse Harris, Ny Oh, Grant Milliken, Spencer Zahn, Larry Goldings and more, “who together shared laughter and tears over the course of vulnerable sessions and true confessions,” says the announcement. It’s available in the U.S. here and in Canada here.

The List’s lead single, “Casablanca,” written with Wilson and Camerieri, is “a meditation on unfinished romances suspended in time. Inspired both by a rewatch of the film Casablanca, and the surreal New Orleans encounter Hoffs had with the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir in 1988—a walk through the French Quarter, an impromptu parade of Dead Heads forming behind them—it is a song about possibility, and what might have been.

“Across The List,” the announcement continues, “she channels her sense of humor, keen powers of observation and eye for detail into powerful statements of love and longing, loss and resilience, loneliness and limbo, reinvention and self-discovery.”

Listen to “This Island”

Reuniting with Wainwright on vocals – who Hoffs dueted with on a cover of The Turtles’ “Happy Together” for the 2025 film The Roses, directed by her husband, Jay Roach – “Bad Case of Loneliness” was born from a frank confession about how a person can feel even lonelier when they are not alone.

The List closes with “What Are Wings For” written by Hoffs, Camerieri and Brickell, for the musical adaptation of Hoffs’ bestselling, debut novel, This Bird Has Flown. “Sung by the story’s protagonist, Jane Start, it is a declaration of personal and artistic freedom, as Jane finds the courage to break free from expectation and claim her own moment in the spotlight, finding her own voice.”

Related: Our review of the Bangles’ boxed set, Watching the Sky

Ahead of the album release, Hoffs and her band—Camerieri, Ryan Lerman, Spencer Zahn, JT Bates—began touring throughout the U.S. on Sept. 5. Dates include a sold-out, five-night residency at New York City’s Cafe Carlyle.

Susanna Hoffs The List Track Listing
Casablanca
Where Do We Go
None of Them Were You
Time
Bad Case of Loneliness
Learn a Lesson Twice
Fool
Vertigo
This Island
Good Luck
Without You
What Are Wings For

Susanna Hoffs 2026 Tour (Tickets are available here)
Sep 19 – Asbury Park, NJ – Sea.Hear.Now Festival
Sep 21 – New York, NY – The Carlyle
Sep 22 – New York, NY – The Carlyle
Sep 24 – New York, NY – The Carlyle
Sep 25 – New York, NY – The Carlyle
Sep 26 – New York, NY – The Carlyle
Sep 27 – Ocean City, MD – Oceans Calling Festival