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.
CONWAY THE MACHINE & JOEY BADA$$ – “VERTINO”
Two devotees of ’90s boom bap, Conway the Machine and Joey Bada$$, put their heads together on this dusty, nostalgia-inducing collab.
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CALL ME MALCOLM – “WE SHALL MEET IN THE PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO DARKNESS”
UK emotive ska-punks Call Me Malcolm have shared the third and final single off their anticipated new album Echoes and Ghosts, and it’s another great one.
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TIERRA WHACK – “27 CLUB”
Says Tierra Whack of the latest single from her upcoming WORLD WIDE WHACK album: “I was in a dark place for a long time, and no one knew. I found my way out and made a choice to keep living. I wanna be completely transparent with my ‘whackos’ because I’m human just like you and we all have rough days. The key is to keep going! Be kind… you never know what someone else is going through. For the longest time, I felt like I didn’t belong, but now I know that I do, and my hope is for other people to know that, too.” For the video, Tierra Whack collaborated with conceptual artist Alex Da Corte.
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WITCH VOMIT – “BLOOD OF ABOMINATION”
Portland’s Witch Vomit have announced a new LP, Funeral Sanctum, due April 5 via 20 Buck Spin. First single “Blood of Abomination” finds them delivering a mix of fast-paced melodic death metal and trad-metal riffage and topping it off with gruesome screams.
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PRIZE – SAINT NAME INDEX EP
Albany’s Prize have released a three-song EP of sludgy post-hardcore.
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BUMMER HILL – “LADYBUGS”
Atlanta’s Bummer Hill offer up some nice power pop-infused emo on this new single for Chillwavve Records.
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GENERATION – SATELLITES AND SUNS
UK band Generation are one part Revolution Summer, one part ’80s/’90s alt-rock on this new three-song EP for Sunday Drive REcords.
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WHIRLWIND – “LASTING PEACE”
West Coast hardcore band Whirlwind will release new LP Lasting Peace on March 8 via Indecision Records, and here’s the tough-as-nails title track.
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BUDDY – “LIKE THIS”
Compton rapper Buddy gets tongue-twisting and melodic on new single “Like This.”
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DUA LIPA – TRAINING SEASON”
After debuting the song during the 2024 Grammy Awards, Dua Lipa has officially unveiled “Training Season,” which follows November’s “Houdini” and was written by Dua, Caroline Ailin, Danny L. Harle, Tobias Jesso Jr., and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, and produced by Parker and Harle. “I had been on a string of bad dates, and the last one was the final straw,” Dua says. “The next morning I arrived to the studio to Caroline and Tobias asking me how it all went and I immediately declared ‘TRAINING SEASON IS OVER,’ and like the best ‘day after’ debriefs with your mates, we had a lot of laughs and it all quickly came together from there. And while it is obviously about that feeling when you are just absolutely done telling people… men specifically in this case, how to date you right; it is also about my training season being over and me growing with every experience. I have never felt more confident, clear or empowered. And while it may be that training season is never over for any of us, you start to see the beauty in finding that person to experience it with. You stop looking for the trainees and become more interested in having someone where you are and someone to grow with.”
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GRADUATION SPEECH – “BREAK THE CURSE”
Graduation Speech will release new EP Arcane Feelings on March 1 via Protagonist Music, and new single “Break The Curse” finds them in yearning, ’90s-style indie rock territory.
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ARIANA GRANDE – “YES, AND?” FT. MARIAH CAREY
Ariana Grande shared a remix of her recent single “yes, and?” featuring Mariah Carey. Unsurprisingly, things get into the whistle register.
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VAMPIRE WEEKEND – “GEN-X COPS” & “CAPRICORN”
Vampire Weekend have released the first two singles from their anticipated new album Only God Was Above Us, and you can read about them here.
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LILLY HIATT – “HIDDEN DAY”
“I wrote this with my friend Scot Sax on a sunny day in East Nashville,” says Lilly Hiatt of this new single. “We were in agreement that a hidden day would be much to everyone’s advantage. Then we decided we would make one of our own.”
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HIGH ON FIRE – “BURNING DOWN”
High on Fire shared the first single off their first album since 2018, Cometh the Storm. Read more about it here, and pre-order our exclusive 180g sky blue and spring green vinyl variant, limited to 300 copies.
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DECIUS (FAT WHITE FAMILY) – DECIUS TRAX EP IV
Decius, the electro group featuring Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi, are back with a new three-song EP of ravey club tracks.
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BOLIS PUPUL – “MA TAU TAI ROAD”
“I wrote this song in a hotel room just around the corner of my mother’s birthplace on Ma Tau Wai Road in 2019,” says Bolis Pupul of the latest single from his upcoming album Letter To Yu. “It’s a song about gratitude and regret, two feelings that go hand in hand when I’m in Hong Kong. Back in Belgium I asked my sister, Salah Pupul, if she wanted to sing this song. Besides being a great visual artist she is also a very talented singer with whom I’ve made a lot of music in the past. Prior to the recording session she had never been to Hong Kong, but when we decided to make a video for ‘Ma Tau Wai Road,’ I wanted to film her being a small part of this giant city. I enjoyed every minute with my sister in Hong Kong, mirroring each other since we were kids. Made with lots of love and compassion, and dedicated to our beloved mother, Yu Wei Wun.”
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PETE ASTOR (THE LOFT / WEATHER PROPHETS) – “CHINESE CADILLAC”
Former Weather Prophets and The Loft frontman Pete Astor will release new album Tall Stories & New Religions in March and this new single is a redo of an old Weather Prophets song. “I’d wanted to write a one-chord, ballad-type thing for ages, kind of in the style of Chuck Berry’s Downbound Train,” Pete says. “And so, I wrote Chinese Cadillac. It was a third person narrative, and the main character was someone who wanted fame thinking it would make everything in his life right, and ends up talking shit in a pub in Camden Town (The Hawley Arms, actually, if you must know!). And of course, the fact that I never said ‘I’ once, meant that the song was in no way about me.”
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VOXTROT – “MY PEACE”
“‘My Peace’ is a retelling of my journey as a professional musician,” says Voxtrot’s Ramesh Srivastava. “Early last year when I was visiting Los Angeles, I had dinner with Rostam Batmanglij, who is of course known for his work with Vampire Weekend, as well as his solo catalog and numerous productions and collaborations (Haim, Clairo, Frank Ocean, etc). Rostam and I have written together on several songs – including ‘Now I’m In It’ by Haim – and we have been friends since the early days of Voxtrot. After dinner he offered to give me a ride back to where I was staying, on the condition that I play him the new Voxtrot demos en route. He had largely positive feedback but gave one criticism: as I understood it, he wished he could get a firmer sense of the ‘Ramesh behind the songs’… a place name, a timestamp … anything to indicate that it was me singing about my life. I thought about this when writing ‘My Peace,’ and decided to be very direct about my early experiences as a young hyped musician, the heartbreak of losing that hype, and the subsequent years of hard work and ego battling that have brought me home to a place of truly loving music and being utterly committed to it.”
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SAVAK – “TWO LAMPS”
“Musically this is as close to Pailhead or Killing Joke as we’ve yet tread and I’m glad to see us dipping our toes there, as those records have been part of my musical DNA since I first heard them in the late-‘80s,” says SAVAK’s Sohrab Habbibion of their new single from the upcoming Flavors of Paradise. “Lyrically this is more commentary on power, control and perspective two lamps light the room, but depending on where you are standing the view is different. Two camps divide us. Two mouths fight to speak. Two hands strangle us. And we have to ask ourselves, are we just alive or are we actually living?”
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SWAMI & THE BED OF NAILS – “HOW ARE YOU PEELING?”
Swami & The Bed of Nails, the band from Swami John Reis (Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Rocket from the Crypt) will release their debut album later this year. This is the first taste.
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SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE – “CLICK”
System Exclusive, the California shoegaze / garage / synthpop duo of Ari Blaisdell (Lower Self, The Beat Offs) and Matt Jones (Male Gaze, Castle Face Records), have announced their second album, Click, which will be out May 24 via Mt.St.Mtn. Here’s the title track.
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