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.
FUCKED UP – “SHOW FRIENDS”
Fucked Up are releasing a 7″ on Halloween featuring three songs from the sessions for this year’s One Day, including the just-released “Show Friends,” an arena rock-sized hardcore song that Damian Abraham says is about “the complex relationships people can wind up having with music and the music business.”
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FLOATING POINTS – “BIRTH4000”
The great electronic music (and sometimes jazz) musician Floating Points has dropped his first single of 2023, and this one’s for the dancefloor.
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DYLAN LEBLANC – “CROWD GOES WILD”
Dylan LeBlanc’s new album Coyote comes out this Friday via ATO, and he’s shared one more single ahead of its released. “Crowd Goes Wild” finds the singer/songwriter embracing the sounds of ’70s psychedelic soul. He also announced a tour.
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DELA$I – “AMPLIFLIER” (ft. NII NOI NORTEY)
Ghanaian artist DeLa$i combines Afrobeat, jazz, hip hop, and more on new single “Amplifier.”
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FYZICAL – “IS THIS YOUR LIFE?”
Omaha hardcore band FYZICAL drops a hard, fast, no-frills ripper via Triple B.
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JUAN CORDERO (TRAUMA RAY) – “HALFSTEP90”
Juan Cordero of Trauma Ray will release a solo album, Songs About Ghosts, on October 31 via Sunday Drive Records, featuring the ’90s-style indie rock of new single “Halfstep90.”
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DION LUNADON – I WALK AWAY
Former A Place to Bury Strangers bassist Dion Lunadon will release new album Systems Edge on November 14 via In the Red. Check out the searing ripper “I Walk Away.”
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DAVID HOLMES – STOP APOLOGISING (FEATURING RAVEN VIOLET)
David Holmes says “Stop Apologising” is “a song bathed in the wonders of psychedelic therapy – an ode to the over-thinkers who waste so much time worrying about nothing rather than living their lives on their terms.” Holmes new album Blind On A Galloping Horse is out November 10.
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JESS JOY – “MY BODY”
Los Angeles based artist and musician jess joy has announced new album SOURCEHEIRESS, out November 10 via Joyful Noise. You can check out the “maximal pop” sounds of first single “My Body.”
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THE POLYPHONIC SPREE – “SECTION 48 (SHADOWS ON THE HILLSIDE)”
Here’s another early taste of The Polyphonic Spree’s upcoming Salvage (their first in a decade) which leader Tim DeLaughter says he imagined as a cross between Percy Faith and Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young.
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THALA – “WINDOWSILL”
UK artist Thala will relaese new album twotwentytwo on November 3 via Fire Records. “Music is the fuel to heal ourselves in whatever way we need” she says. “Windowsill” has a an early-’90s shoegaze pop feel.
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VERA SOLA – “THE LINE”
Danielle Aykroyd will follow her debut 2018 LP as Vera Sola, Shades, with her second album under the moniker, Peacemaker, due out February 2 via City Lang. She’s shared a new single, “The Line,” and says, “This song paraphrases a conversation I had with a dear friend in a parking lot on tour back in 2019. It’s about how experiences with dying and death—both in his career and personal world—prompted him to radically change the course of his life. I wrote it a day or so later in a rare moment of solitude while circling the hills of Pittsburgh on foot to decompress ahead of the night’s show. It sounds like a heavy, dark number but it’s actually a hopeful song. There’s sorrow and anger and grief in the performance—as is natural and healthy and important surrounding loss—but ultimately the prevailing emotion/message is one of liberation. We have such a twisted, tortured, disconnected relationship to death in the West. I think it’s one of the reasons we’re fucking everything up so royally. It doesn’t have to be this way. There can be great peace when we come to accept what has been known since the dawn of humanity, to every culture around the world (before the white man got his grubby little fingers up in everything)—that death is no end. That we are all but energy and energy cannot be destroyed, it only changes form. We’ll meet again.”
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OISIN LEECH (THE LOST BROTHERS) – “OCTOBER SUN” FT STEVE GUNN, M WARD AND TONY GARNIER
Irish songwriter Oisin Leech of The Lost Brothers has just shared his debut solo single, “October Sun.” It was produced by Steve Gunn and features bassist Tony Garnier and M. Ward. “When Oisin told me he wanted to record in Donegal, it felt serendipitous,” says Steve Gunn. “I hadn’t told him I’ve always wanted to spend time in that part of Ireland. This was the perfect way for me to finally arrive at a place I’ve always wanted to see – by way of song. To be there with Oisin as he crafted his beautiful song in an old schoolhouse turned studio, was pure magic.”
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IAN SWEET – “SMOKING AGAIN”
The latest single from Ian Sweet’s new album Sucker is “Smoking Again,” which she says is “pretty dramatic,” continuing, “I often put myself in situations that I know won’t be beneficial to me, just to get a rise out of myself. Almost like setting up obstacles just to see if I could overcome them.”
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CRUUSH – “AS SHE GROWS”
Manchester shoegazers cruush have just released this new single that both shimmers and roars. “When I was a kid, I was the one that was obsessed with fairies, I would wear my wings everywhere until my parents had to take them off me,” says bandleader Amber Warren:. “I took a lot of inspiration from The Flower Fairy poems by Cicley Mary Barker, which was my favourite book growing up. I wanted the tune to be lighthearted and nostalgic and have no dark undertones, unlike a lot of our other tunes! Just a happy silly song about nature and fairies.”
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ODETTA HARTMAN – “DR. NO”
Odetta Hartman has signed to Transgressive Records and announced her second album, Swansongs, due out March 22 via her new label home. The first single is the dramatic “Dr. No.” “As the first song written for the new album, ‘Dr. No’ helped to distill recurring themes of shadow play, evil twins, and monstrous myths for further exploration throughout the record,” Odetta says. “A basement blues inspired by ‘St James Infirmary’ second lines; a doomsday dirge delivered from Victorian gothic tropes; a raucous requiem for lovers lost and former selves. Birthed in a boiler room with touring partner, Freedom, we developed a sonic world to spook imaginations and rattle speakers across the world.”
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SLAUSON MALONE 1 – “NEW JOY”
Slauson Malone 1 releases his debut album, Excelsior, on Friday via Warp and here’s one final early taste.
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LOOMS – “HOLOGRAM”
Brooklyn band Looms released new EP, Dogs of Doubt, today on whch they’ve woven some lovely indie folk sounds.
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SEA RAY – “LASHES”
NYC chamber rock group Sea Ray are giving their 2003 bow Stars at Noon a 20th anniversary reissue and to go along with it they’ve recorded two new songs with Peter Katis. “Lashes” is one of them.
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FONT – “IT”
Do you have fond remembrances of the dancey post-punk mid-’00s? You should definitely check out Austin’s Font.
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HELADO NEGRO – “LFO”
Helado Negro’s new album Phasor is out February 9 via 4AD. This is the first single.
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SONDRE LERCHE – “ANTI-HERO” (TAYLOR SWIFT COVER)
Surprise! Sondre Lerche is releasing a covers album featuring his takes on pop hits by Taylor Swift, Sia, Beyonce, Drake, Ariana Grande and more which he’s recorded over Christmas in the last decade.
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UFOMAMMUT – “VIBRHATE”
Italian psychedelic doom trio Ufomammut have shared a new track off their upcoming Crookhead EP and you can read about it here.
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NAILAH HUNTER – “FINDING MIRRORS”
Los Angeles-based harpist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Nailah Hunter announced her debut album Lovegaze, due out January 12 via Fat Possum, and shared a new single, which you can read more about here.
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ALKALINE TRIO – “BLOOD, HAIR, AND EYEBALLS”
Alkaline Trio have announced their first album in six years, first since Matt Skiba left blink-182, and last with longtime drummer Derek Grant, who left the band earlier this year. It’s called Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, and you can read more about the LP and its title track here.
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DANNY BROWN – “TANTOR”
Danny Brown finally officially announced his new album Quaranta, and he shared this Alchemist-produced lead single. Read more here.
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MANNEQUIN PUSSY – “I DON’T KNOW YOU”
Mannequin Pussy announced a new album, I Got Heaven, and shared new single “I Don’t Know You.” Read more about it here.
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