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.
YOUNG MIKO || BZRP MUSIC SESSIONS #58
Fast-rising Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko has been unstoppable lately, and now she teams up with Bizarrap for a trap-pop banger that shows off her bars and her melodic side in equal measure.
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PACKS – “MISSY”
PACKS’ latest preview from upcoming album Melt The Honey is told from the perspective of a cat. “She was trying not to look at us, but we could see right through her,” Madeline Link says. The album is out next week.
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J MASCIS – “RIGHT BEHIND YOU”
Dinosaur Jr bandleader J Mascis will release new solo album What Do We Do Now on February 2 and here’s another song from it, along with an otter-filled lyric visualizer.
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SUSANNE SUNDFØR – “ALEX SKETCH THREE”
Susanne Sundfør contributed the spare, delicate “Alex sketch three” to Alex Lawther’s film For People In Trouble.
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PETE ASTOR – “MODEL VILLAGE”
Former The Loft and Weather Prophets frontman Pete Astor has announced new album Tall Stories & New Religions which is out March 15 via Tapete. “I remember being 11 and one of my main pastimes was the hours and hours that I spent making plastic models,” says of the album’s first single. “I clearly remember, as well being obsessed with finding the correct German camouflage for a Panzer IV, also coming under the spell of music – Slade and others (but mainly Slade) were starting to fill up my head. My concern then was ‘which way will this go? Will it be music or military modelling?’. Not long after, the answer was very clear. That was the way it goes with the teenage years of course – things moved very fast. Anyway, maybe a comfortable world being built in miniature was coming back to me with Model Village.”
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MAXBAND – “NOTHING’S CHANGED”
Maxband, the NYC group led by Parquet Courts drummer Max Savage, will release their debut album Maxband On Ice on April 5 and this is the first single. “Takeout Menu” is a stay-in date night love song.
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LOOSE BUTTONS – “I SAW JON HAMM AT THE BEACH”
Says Loose Buttons frontman Eric Nizgretsky of this song (which you can figure out what it’s about): “It was one of those idyllic beach days — the sky blue, the air just right. And then, out of the corner of my eye, the man himself Jon Hamm. There he was, a perfect “symbol of the ideal man” who, in reality, was just simply another beachgoer, casually playing kadima and sharing the day with his loved ones. As a huge fan of his work, seeing him out there, just being a regular dude, felt wonderfully refreshing. The whole experience debunked the ‘leading man’ facade I’ve often attributed to him. So, if you ever get the chance, I highly recommend seeing Jon Hamm at the beach— it’s a life changing experience.”
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MICHELLE – “NEVER AGAIN”
The latest single from NYC collective MICHELLE’s new EP GLOW is “NEVER AGAIN,” a breezy alt-pop track.
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RIDE – “PEACE SIGN”
After hints we would be getting this news soon, Ride have announced their new album Interplay, which will be released March 29. Here’s the first single which they’ve already been playing live.
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FAYE WEBSTER – “LEGO RING” FT. LIL YACHTY
Faye Webster announced her fifth album, and you can read more about that and the latest single, which features Lil Yachty, here.
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SUPERCHUNK – “EVERYBODY DIES”
“Something that seems different recently is that we aren’t just losing legends from older generations—Pharoah Sanders or Toots Hibbert or Kidd Jordan or Tina Turner—but musicians we think of as peers and friends; people we have toured with and recorded with and shared beers with all over the world,” says Mac McCaughan of Superchunk’s new single. “It means of course we’re getting older, and while we know from an early age that yes, everybody dies, it doesn’t make these departures any less shocking.”
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KATIE PRUITT – “WHITE LIES, WHITE JESUS & YOU”
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt shared the second single off her new album Mantras, which you can read more about here.
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BIG|BRAVE – “i felt a funeral”
Montreal trio BIG|BRAVE have announced new album A Chaos of Flowers which will be out April 19 via Thrill Jockey. This is the first single.
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REMO DRIVE – “MERCY”
Remo Drive announced a new album and shared the title track, which you can read more about here.
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BEN FROST – “THE RIVER OF LIGHT AND RADIATION”
This is the new single from electronic artist and composer Ben Frost’s first album in seven years.
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AARON WEST AND THE ROARING TWENTIES – “IN LIEU OF FLOWERS”
The Wonder Years’ Dan Campbell announced a new album from his folk rock project Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties, and shared the title track, which you can read more about here.
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