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.
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO – “#9 VENUS THE LIVING MYTH” (SUN RA TRIBUTE)
Meshell Ndegeocello has announced Red Hot & Ra: The Magic City, an album inspired by Sun Ra’s 1966 album The Magic City, due April 12 via Red Hot Organization. The first single is the stirring “#9 Venus the Living Myth.”
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GRANDADDY – “LONG AS I’M NOT THE ONE”
Grandaddy’s new album, Blu Wav, is out Friday and here’s one last preview before you can hear the whole thing. The video for “Long As I’m Not the One” was directed by Aaron Beckum and was inspired by classic westerns, The Three Amigos, and maybe the Museum of Natural History.
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NICK MULVEY – “FREEDOM NOW” FT. GOLSHIFTEH FARAHANI & AROOJ AFTAB
“I saw a clip of my friend Golshifteh Farahani on stage with Coldplay singing ‘Baraye’ in the middle of the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ uprising in 2022 and it moved me to tears,” Nick Mulvey says. “I messaged her my gratitude and she had the idea of collaborating on a song. ‘Freedom Now’ was born. Like every fight for basic liberties anywhere in the world, the struggle for freedom in Iran is symbolic of humanity’s struggle for freedom as a whole. The Iranian people’s courage inspires and overwhelms me. My song is an assertion of our inalienable rights as human beings to freedom and peace and as such it is an act of reclaiming these rights.” Proceeds go to Choose Love to help fund their work with refugees and displaced people across the world.
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OMNI – “COMPLIMENT”
Atlanta trio Omni have one last single before releasing new album Souvenir on Friday. Says the band: “The last song on Souvenir explores uncharted territory for the band, which features some of the most bodacious guitar work and twists in an Omni song. It describes sparring with post-modernism in a post-postmodern world.”
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LOUISA STANCIOFF – “NOBODY’S WATCHING”
Maine-based singer-songwriter Louisa Stancioff releases her debut album, When We Were Looking, in April via Yep Roc, and the latest single is evocative folk track “Nobody’s Watching.” “It is both a love song to mother nature, and a breakup song to the greed and overconsumption of humanity,” she says.
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MICK HARVEY (EX BAD SEEDS) – “WHEN WE WERE BEAUTIFUL & YOUNG”
Former Birthday Party and Bad Seeds member Mike Harvey will release new album Five Ways to Say Goodbye on May 10 via Mute. It a mix of originals and covers (The Saints’ Ed Kuepper, The Triffids’ David McComb, Lee Hazlewood, more). “I don’t think cover is appropriate terminology,” says Harvey. “It’s not a copy. To my mind it’s more in the traditional sense of how songs used to be, where they would mutate and you’d end up with lots of different versions. One is really just passing the music on and sharing the songs further.” The new single is one of Harvey’s goreous originals.
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SERPENTWITHFEET – “ELLIPSIS” FT. ORION SUN
ThankGod4Cody produced the final advance single off serpentwithfeet’s anticipated new album GRIP, which is out this Friday. “Ellipsis” also features smoky vocals from Orion Sun.
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HALO MAUD – “MY DESIRE IS PURE”
“The song is built around the ascending melody found in the refrain and also the phrase which became the title,” says Halo Maud of the new single from her upcoming second album, Celebrate. I realized, once the song was completed, that it was constructed resembling a mountain: an ascending and descending melody providing relief, an arid guitar riff like boulders. And there is space: there aren’t many words and each sung phrase is punctuated by an instrumental motif, flowerbeds, a grove. From the vocals flow the desire, a pure and clear water source pouring into a stream. The stream watering the green prairies below. Desire as a source of life, freshness, creativity, perpetual movement. I adore this state of insatiability which compels me forward. I wanted to say that I live as a function of my desires, and that this desire never ends but transforms, into love, into songs, into a walk in the forest.” The album’s out March 22.
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GEORGIA – “TOO MUCH TOO LITTLE”
Ahead of Europe and UK shows supporting Kim Petras, Georgia has shared a new dance-pop track, “Too Much Too Little.” “It’s so hard at the moment to try and contemplate a balanced life when so much is going on, in the news, on social media, everywhere,” she says. “I find it hard to sometimes see what’s reality and what’s fantasy.”
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ONE TRUE PAIRING (EX WILD BEASTS) – “MID-LIFE CRISIS”
One True Pairing, aka former Wild Beasts co-leader Tom Fleming is back with this lush, anthemic new single. “I shuffle around, morning to morning, whistling to myself, just to remind myself I exist,” says Fleming of its inspiration. “Friendly, unthreatening. Ready to softly drift out of the story. Life is short. Life is long.”
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GEORGIA GETS BY – “WHEN ALL YOU CAN MANAGE IS A SIGH”
Georgia Nott of BROODS released her first EP as Georgia Gets By, Fish Bird Baby Boy, last year via Luminelle Recordings, and she’s followed it with the beautiful, pared down “When All You Can Manage Is A Sigh.” “I wrote this song for a friend a few years ago while they were navigating a divorce,” she says. “There are those moments where thinking can’t balance out the feelings. You can rationalize all you want but you are still there, holding that enormous heavy sensation that no words can describe. There, on the other side of falling in love, looking around at empty space and wondering whether you can bear to try it all again. This song is a parting gift of some sorts; something to fill the emptiness for a couple of minutes. As Imogen Heap says ‘there is beauty in the breakdown’.”
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FRIKO – “GET NUMB TO IT!”
Friko’s anticipated debut album is out this Friday, and ahead of its release they’ve shared a final advance single, the anthemic “Get Numb To It!,” a re-recording of a song first released three years ago. “When we recorded that song Niko and I were each on pianos on opposite sides of the room, just slamming on them for texture,” drummer Bailey Minzenberger says. “There are moments all over the record where we were both improvising at the same time, but they’re mostly used in a very subtle way, without making it the main focal point.”
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KORA PUCKETT (BUGG, NARROW HEAD) – “FAR AS I CAN TELL”
Bugg (who were signed to Turnstile & Trapped Under Ice’s label Pop Wig) frontman Kora Puckett, and who also currently plays in hardcore-adjacent alt-rock band Narrow Head (and who has done time in Sheer Mag and many other bands), is back in singer-songwriter mode and releasing music under his own name. “This is the first music I’ve made that feels 100% me,” says Kora in a press release accompanying the announcement of his 3-song debut EP, and which also reads: “A little bit country, a little bit rock n’ roll, 3 Songs is a radio ready collection of singles that softly shout his obvious confidence, heartache and swagger as a craft-focused songwriter and lyricist.” The EP is out Feb 23, but you can listen to its first single with accompanying video now.
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MUTILATION BARBECUE – “AUTO ANTHROPOPHAGY”
Ohio death metallers Mutilation Barbecue have announced their debut LP, Amalgamations of Gore, due March 29 via Maggot Stomp. It was mixed and mastered by Will Killingsworth, and here’s the brutal lead single “Auto Anthrophagy.”
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MARIA CHIARA ARGIRÒ – “CLOSER”
Maria Chiara Argirò has announced a new album, Closer, due April 26 via Innovative Leisure. Of the title track, Maria says, “This song explores the dream of navigating life, finding where you truly belong and discovering freedom within this feeling. It’s a journey centered on connecting with oneself and getting closer in a dreamlike world.”
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SINISTER FEELING – “WON’T GO BACK”
Baltimore hardcore/powerviolence band Sinister Feeling have announced a self-titled LP, due February 23 via Delayed Gratification Records. Here’s rippin’ lead single “Won’t Go Back.”
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PEARL JAM – “DARK MATTER”
Pearl Jam have announced Dark Matter and shared the title track.
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MUTINY (VOODOO GLOW SKULLS, DISSIDENTE) – “THIS IS A EULOGY”
Mutiny is a new ska-punk supergroup with members of Voodoo Glow Skulls, Dissidente, and more, and here’s their first single.
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VIAL – “APATHY”
VIAL have shared the final single off their anticipated third album burnout and they’ve also announced a headlining tour. Read more here.
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THE GOALIE’S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK – “MR. SETTLED SCORE”
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick have shared the second single off their upcoming sophomore album and you can read about it here.
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MUSH (DOWSING, ANNABEL) – “GOING DUTCH”
Mush, the Chicago emo band with members of Dowsing, Annabel, Kittyhawk, Pet Symmetry, and more (not to be confused with the UK indie rock band of the same name), are gearing up to release a new album and here’s new single “Going Dutch.”
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JESSICA PRATT – “LIFE IS”
Jessica Pratt has announced her fourth album, Here in the Pitch, along with lead single “Life Is.”
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GOAT GIRL – “RIDE AROUND”
Here’s the fist single from London band Goat Girl’s third album.
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CHANEL BEADS – “IDEA JUNE”
Chanel Beads, the hazy musical project of NYC resident Shane Lavers, has announced his debut album Your Day Will Come, which will be out April 19 via Jagjaguwar. This is the shoegazy new single.
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WAXAHATCHEE – “BORED”
Waxahatchee shared the second single off her new album Tigers Blood, and you can read more about it here.
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CALEB LANDRY JONES – “CORN MINE”
It’s the lovely first single from Caleb’s second album, and the video puts in neck-deep in corn.
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PARSNIP – “THE LIGHT”
‘Behold’ is Melbourne band Parsnip’s second album and will be out April 26 via Upset the Rhythm. Check out the first single.
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POKEY LAFARGE – “SISTER ANDRE”
Here’s the first single from Pokey LaFarge’s new album Rhumba Country.
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