41 New Songs Out Today
So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we’d call “indie,” and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. We update a playlist weekly of some of our current favorite tracks. Here’s a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place.
COMMON & PETE ROCK – “WISE UP”
Two rap veterans/lifers team up on “Wise Up,” and as Common says, “It feels like the spirit of where we come from, the boom bap, the basement, but it also feels forward and new.”
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THE FOLK IMPLOSION – “BOBBLEHEAD DOLL” & “MY LITTLE LAMB”
The Folk Implosion are gearing up to release their first album since the ’90s and they’ve just shared a two track single featuring John Davis’ “Bobblehead Doll” and Lou Barlow’s “My Little Lamb.”
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ROMY MARS – “STUCK UP” & “FROM A DISTANCE”
Romy Mars, the daughter of Sofia Coppola and Phoenix’s Thomas Mars, has shared her debut single, “Stuck Up,” and its b-side, “From a Distance.” The bedroom pop tracks are produced by Claud.
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JOE ELY FT BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – “ODDS OF THE BLUES”
Austin music legend Joe Ely will release new album Driven to Drive on August 2 and the first single features an old friend and collaborator, Bruce Springsteen. “I got the idea for the song from hanging out at an all-night after-hours joint on the edge of east Lubbock called TV’s,” says Joe. “There was always a dice game in the back room; the pool table had a bad lean; and the jukebox mainly played old blues songs. I wrote the song later when I put my studio together in Austin. I asked Bruce recently if he would like to sing with me on this song, and he said he’d love to. We’ve been long lost friends for a long time. One of my memories of us singing together was in Dublin, Ireland, when we both got on stage with Jerry Lee Lewis and Shane MacGowan and sang ‘Great Balls of Fire.’”
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FASHION CLUB – “ROTTEN MIND” FT. JULIE BYRNE
Los Angeles artist Pascal Stevenson has shared a new single as Fashion Club, “Rotten Mind,” featuring backing vocals from Julie byrne. “I’m trying my hardest to empathize with those people and just not getting there, which is something I deal with a lot: that attempt to let go of resentment and hatred for the world,” Stevenson says. “I think it’s posing the question to those people, ‘Is that really what you want? Or do you just want to see other people suffer because you feel like you’re suffering?’”
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49 WINCHESTER – “FAST ASLEEP”
Castlewood, Virginia country band 49 Winchester have shared “Fast Asleep,” another promising cut from their upcoming album Leavin’ This Holler.
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MUI ZYU – “PLEASE BE OK” FT. MISS GRIT
mui zyu has given us a final early taste of her second album, nothing or something to die for, ahead of its release this Friday. “‘please be ok’ means many things, it can be supportive, judgmental, mediocre, passable, fine (whatever that means), it can be good after bad, or bad after good, everything… or nothing – pure absurdity really,” she says. “When I started this song I wondered if it would be ok to ask Miss Grit to help with it, when they said ‘ok’, I thought ‘ok this is the best news’. They brought all sorts of magic to the song and production making it extra special (which is more than ok).”
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THE SHACKS – “GENTLE” (ft. EL MICHELS AFFAIR)
The Shacks (whose singer Shannon Wise is also now taking off with Fcukers) have a new single with retro-soul project El Michels Affair from the upcoming Big Crown Vaults Vol.2.
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TAYLOR VICK – “PLACE THAT I BELIEVE FROM”
Taylor Vick has retired her Boy Scouts moniker and released her first song under her own name, hypnotic ballad “Place That I Believe From.” “I wrote ‘Place That I Believe From’ about my attempt to locate the unlocatable — the ineffable and elusive ‘place’ inside of me where my beliefs are born from and exist within,” she says. “It represents another stride in my lifelong pursuit of meaning and my obsession with life’s mysteries. Examining an emotion carefully and questioning it, seeking to understand where it came from, what it is, and why it’s here, in an attempt to better know myself.”
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BILLIE EILISH – “L’AMOUR DE MA VIE” [OVER NOW EXTENDED EDIT]
“L’AMOUR DE MA VIE” from Billie Eilish’s new album Hit Me Hard and Soft is the kind of song that’s perfect for an extended dance mix, and now it has one.
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STOREFRONT CHURCH – “MELTING MIRROR”
Storefront Church’s new album Ink & Oil is out next month, and he’s given us another early taste with the theatrical and lushly orchestrated “Melting Mirror.”
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RAVEENA – “LUCKY”
Raveena has announced a new album, Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain, due June 14 via Empire. Along with the announcement comes the gentle R&B/soul of “Lucky.”
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ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES – “ESTOS CELOS” (VINCENTE FERNANDEZ COVER)
“‘Estos Celos,’ sung most famously by the great Vicente Fernandez, is a musical lament of jealousy, regret, and heartache, made all the more vivid by the excruciating detail of the lyrics (all the way down to the mole on his ex’s neck) and the delirious, burning emotion in the Gimmes’ new rendition,” Me First and the Gimme Gimmes’ Spike Slowson says. “You may be asking yourself, ‘What, thematically speaking, does this have to do with a Quinceañera?’ and if you find the answer, please pass it along.” It’s from their new album Blow it…at Madison’s Quinceañera!
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FANA HUES – “RENTAL”
Fana Hues has announced a new album, MOTH, due June 14 via Bright Antenna Records, and here’s the gooey, funky R&B of new single “Rental.”
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HOMESHAKE – “SIMPLE”
Homeshake’s second album of 2024, Horsie, is out in June, and he’s shared another single, “Simple,” which comes with a video directed by Jim Larson that’s part of a triology with the “Nothing 2 See” video.
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MAMALEEK – “ANCIENT SOULS, NO LONGER SORROWFUL”
Experimental heavy band Mamaleek are releasing Vida Blue on August 9 via The Flenser, and new single “Ancient Souls, No Longer Sorrowful” finds them in very creepy-sounding form.
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SUFFER NO FOOLS – “THA HARD WAY”
Michigan crossover thrashers Suffer No Fools are gearing up to release a new album called To Live Is To Suffer this year via Heroes + Martyrs (exact release date TBA), and it’ll include new single “Tha Hard Way.”
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LOST UNDER HEAVEN – “FARHANG”
Lost Under Heaven (ex-WU LYF) have collaborated with Canadian poet Patrick Woodcock on their brooding new song “Farhang.”
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NELLY FURTADO – “LOVE BITES” (ft. TOVE LO & SG LEWIS)
Nelly Furtado has shared a dancey new single, “Love Bites,” which features Tove Lo and SG Lewis, the latter of whom also produced it.
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SPRING SILVER – “ANOTHER PERFECT DAY, ANOTHER PERFECT NIGHT”
Spring Silver (aka K Nkanza) has shared “Another Perfect Day, Another Perfect Night,” a fuzzed-out indie rock song that they say this about: “Everyone is more or less selling an idea of themselves, a slightly (or more than slightly haha) fictionalized version of themselves. I’m not sure when I first came up with the lyrics and melody; but once they were in my head, I couldn’t get rid of them. So I figured, I have no choice but to use this really saccharine sounding hook in a song.”
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MOON DIAGRAMS (DEERHUNTER’S MOSES ARCHULETA) – “FIFTEEN SHOWS AT ONE TIME” FT ANASTASIA COOPE
Moses Archuleta describes “Fifteen Shows at One Time” as “digital marching band funk” and is from his first Moon Diagrams album in five years. Anastasia Coope provides backing vocals on this one.
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PARSNIP – “THE BABBLE”
“I wanted ‘The Babble to sound like a ‘Dead End Street’ style Kinks song,” says Parsnip’s Stella Rennex. “However a few people have commented that it sounds like a Dandy Warhols riff which I don’t mind because I am a fan. I also asked Mikey to take it in the direction of the outro of ‘7 and 7 Is’ by Love and he did a great job, the explosion preceding a little ditty played inside a tin can floating out to sea.” This is from Parsnip’s new album Behold.
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GINGER ROOT – “NO PROBLEMS”
Ginger Root, aka multi-instrumnentalist and producer Cameron Lew, has announced his third album, SHINBANGUMI, which will be out September 13 via Ghostly. “In terms of instrumentation and musicality, it’s the first time that I felt very confident and comfortable with what everything should be comprised of,” he says. “On the more personal side, I’m coming out of the last four years of writing, touring, and living as a different person; SHINBANGUMI is a platform to showcase my new self.” Check out first single “No Problems.”
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RUSSIAN BATHS – “HUNGER”
Brooklyn post-punk inspired group Russian Baths are back with a new single from their upcomng album Mirror. “We recorded this at Walter Schreifels’ place upstate,” the band’s Luke Koz says. “He suggested we put the guitar hook first. I’m glad we did. Jess wrote the progression sitting on the floor alternating two chord shapes in an odd tuning in practice.”
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BEEN STELLAR – “PUMPKIN”
NYC band Been Stellar release their debut album in June and here’s another preview. “This song is somewhat of a sonic departure for us — it’s definitely more subdued,” says lead singer Sam Slocum. “There was a point when we weren’t totally sure it would make it onto the album because of that. It had existed in many forms, but it wasn’t until the last month leading up to recording when each part fell into place. Oddly, the lyrics remained the same from the very beginning. They stemmed from a visual I had: an apartment light shining through its windows out onto a street at night. I imagined the people inside the apartment crossing back and forth in front of the window. From there, the lyrics I wrote formed a vignette of the people in the apartment, sharing a space together. I described several shared, intimate moments from my own life— I wanted to get as specific as I could.”
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RJD2 – “CATCH THE EXIT DOOR”
“If you’re familiar with the idea of synesthesia, then you have probably heard of people experiencing sounds as colors,” says RJD2 of the new single from his upcoming album Visions Out Of Limelight. “I often have a similar experience with rhythm and geometry. Rhythmic patterns feel like shapes to me. If you know the satisfaction of a great move in Tetris, that is the closest approximation I can provide to how I feel when putting just the right rhythmic patterns together. ‘Catch The Exit Door’ is in many ways entirely built on this concept.”
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NICE BISCUIT – “RAIN”
Aussie band Nice Biscuit are back with “Rain,” their first new music in three years. It’s nicely splits the difference between guitar psych and dance music. Say the band:”We began to work on ‘Rain’ again after a catastrophic flooding event occurred in Meanjin (Brisbane) in 2022, after weeks of constant rain. We felt trapped in this feeling of helplessness. The song then became a reflection of the psychological impacts of climate change, where you are at first wishing for rain and then begging for it to stop. We changed the lyrics to reflect this, alternating between ‘stop the rain’ and ‘please don’t stop the rain’. We live in a system where action to mitigate climate change is ignored – so in this song we imagined a rainbow ‘cracking through the concrete’ to break free from the shackles of the system to bring change and… the rain. It’s a positive take on a situation that can make us feel powerless – to encourage us to keep going and to not lose hope when everything is uncertain.”
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REDD KROSS – “BORN INNOCENT”
Redd Kross have a busy year ahead, with a new self-titled double album, a new memoir by sibling co-founders Jeff & Steven McDonald, and a documentary about the band all on the way. The new single off the album is “Born Innocent,” which is also theme song to the documentary of the same name (and is also the title to their 1982 debut album) and is basically the story of the band. The video features footage from the film — included rare shots of Redd Kross’ earliest days when they were young teenagers — and kinda doubles as a trailer for the film.
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LANKUM – “THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN”
Dark, boundary-pushing Irish folk act Lankum have announced new album Live in Dublin which will be out June 21 via Rough Trade. It was recorded over three sold out nights at Dublin’s Vicar Street, and features live renditions of songs from across their discography. The album also includes “The Rocky Road To Dublin” which has only ever been played live and this marks its first official release.
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ILLINOISE CAST RECORDING – “CHICAGO” & “THE PREDATORY WASP OF THE PALISADES IS OUT TO GET US!”
Tony-nominated, Sufjan Stevens-inspired musical Illinoise announced its cast recording with two singles, and you can read more about them here.
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KATY J PEARSON – “THOSE GOODBYES”
Katy J Pearson has announced new album Someday, Now, which will be out September 20 via Heavenly. She made at the famed Rockfield Studios in Wales with producer Bullion (Nilüfer Yanya, Carly Rae Jepsen) and her band included labelmates Davey Newington (Boy Azooga) and Huw Evans (H Hawkline), along with Joel Burton (Naima Bock). Here’s the lovely first single.
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POM POKO – “GROWING STORY”
Oslo band Pom Poko will release their third album, Champion, on August 16 via Bella Union. They produced the album themselves and it was mixed by Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding, Dry Cleaning).
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THE BESNARD LAKES – “(DIZZY) EAGLE”
Montreal greats The Besnard Lakes are back with their first new music in two years. “(Dizzy) Eagle” is sprawling and cinematic, like most good Besnard Lakes, with their signature slow build tease before blasting off into epic rock grandeur nearly five minutes in.
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CARSON MCHONE – “I COULDN’T SAY IT TO YOUR FACE” (ARTHUR RUSSELL COVER)
Austin alt-country artist Carson McHone has announced a covers EP and a headlining summer tour, and the first song released from it is this one. Read more here.
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CHRIS KEATING (YEASAYER) – “DEVOTED”
Former Yeasayer co-lead vocalist Chris Keating has a solo EP on the way, and new song “Devoted” is out today. Read more here.
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SINAI VESSEL – “BEST WITNESS”
Sinai Vessel announced new album I SING and new single “Best Witness” is here. Read more here.
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STATE FAULTS – “PALO SANTO”
Santa Rosa screamo band State Faults have announced a new album, Children of the Moon, and you can read about lead single “Palo Santo” here.
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CLOWN SOUNDS (FYP, TOYS THAT KILL) – “TUCK BELLY UP”
Clown Sounds is one of the many bands led by the great Todd Congelliere (who also leads or has lead F.Y.P., Toys That Kill, and more), and they’ve got a new record called Par For The Curse coming on 7/12 via Todd’s label Recess Records. Read about new single “Tuck Belly Up” here.
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