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.
JAMILA WOODS – “GOOD NEWS”
Jamila Woods has shared another taste of Water Made Us, and it’s a smooth, syrupy, airy track that’s keeping our hopes high for the record.
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BIG THIEF – “BORN FOR LOVING YOU”
Big Thief followed July’s “Vampire Empire” with another new single they’ve been playing all spring and summer, the twangy, homespun “Born For Loving You.”
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LIL YACHTY & DESPOT – “RAIN”
Lil Yachty, the pop-rapper who also made a psychedelic rock-inspired album this year, has teamed up with Despot, the indie-rapper who’s been grinding in the underground for like 20 years. It works well.
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YUMI ZOUMA – “KPR”
Yumi Zouma are following last year’s Present Tense with a still-TBA new EP this year, and they’ve given us the first taste with the dreamy “KPR.”
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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – “GEM & I”
There are distinct reggae vibes on this new Panda Bear-sung appetizer from Animal Collective’s upcoming Isn’t It Now?
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DUFF MCKAGAN – “LONGFEATHER”
Duff McKagan’s new solo album Lighthouse is out next month (pre-order our exclusive emerald green vinyl variant, limited to 300 copies), and the latest single is “Longfeather.” “‘Today is a good day to die’ refers not to a macabre yearning for death, but rather a lust for life and the learned habits of a good and honest daily striving,” Duff says. “Longfeather was protecting his home. He couldn’t hold up ALL of the Western wave….but he did his everything to keep his family safe. O Longfeather is gone. And O, Longfeather is home. I see you. I see you. Thank you Longfeather for giving me hope and a solid place to stand.”
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LOL TOLHURST X BUDGIE X JACKNIFE LEE – “GHOSTED AT HOME” (FEAT. BOBBY GILLESPIE)
The gothy, rhythm-heavy trio of Lol Tolhurst (ex Cure), Budgie (ex Banshees) and Jacknife Lee have shared the opening cut from their debut album and it features lead vocals from Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie. “In life it is rare to hear someone telling their story and for us to recognize it as our own,” says Budgie of working with Gillespie. “It is rarer still when that story relates to a complex, dangerous and psychologically damaging relationship. To induce this feeling of empathy is perhaps the gift and skill of a great lyricist and writer. Bobby Gillespie is one of those writers.”
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KATE BOLLINGER – “YOU AT HOME”
Kate Bollinger wrote and recorded her gentle new single “You At Home” with Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth. “Dave and I wrote this song together during one of my first visits to LA,” she says. “I’ve loved his band Dirty Projectors for a long time, so it was kind of a dream to play music with him. We wrote and recorded it simultaneously the day we got together and added some extra things almost exactly a year later: more guitars, house-keys percussion, my clogs walking down the steps.”
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DROP NINETEENS – “A HITCH”
“’A Hitch,’ was the first song the band wrote when they got back together,” Drop Nineteens leader Greg Ackell says. “It set the tone for the rest of the album, for what a new Drop Ninteens song could sound like.” Hard Light, Drop Nineteens’ first album in 30 years, Hard Light, will be out November 3 via Wharf Cat.
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JENN CHAMPION – “JESSICA”
“This song is about the friends we lose too soon and the parts of drug-related deaths that we don’t say out loud,” Jenn Champion of Carissa’s Wierd says of the latest single off her new solo album The Last Night of Sadness. “Unfortunately, I think we all have a Jessica.”
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JOHN CARPENTER, CODY CARPENTER & DANIEL DAVIES – “69TH ST BRIDGE”
There’s a lot of nice grit — and a little electronic steel drum — to John Carpenter’s new version of “69th St Bridge” which was originally from Escape To New York. It’s on his new album Anthology II (Movie Themes 1976-1988).
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GIRL SCOUT – “BRUISES”
Girl Scout’s second EP Granny Music is out later this month, and they’ve given us another early taste. “‘Bruises’ is a song about reaching a certain age where you realize that the grown ups and elderly people around you aren’t really grown ups but just kids stuck in older bodies,” writer and guitarist Viktor Spasov says. “It’s a song about trying to understand and forgive the wrongdoings or faults that people close to you may have and, in some ways, the whole track is a reminder for myself to try and choose love and patience instead of anger and irritation.”
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THE FEELIES – “I’M WAITING FOR THE MAN” (THE VELVET UNDERGROUND COVER)
Here’s another song from The Feelies’ upcoming live album of all Velvet Underground covers.
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CAREER WOMAN – “LADY”
“‘Lady’ is a love letter to my senior year of high school,” Melody Caudill says of her latest single as Career Woman. “It’s about the people closest to me during the period of my life where I finally started to feel like I was living, but still stayed true to my uptight, self conscious nature. I’m still constantly in my head but have a bit more self awareness, life experience, and understanding. The chorus is an ironic take on how I feel people in my life view me (‘I’m your perfect little lady’), and how there is some truth to that (‘I’ll stay up late, like last ten thirty’), but there’s more to me than some people may think (‘But I’m never late, I’m always early’). At its core, ‘Lady’ is a self aware, tongue and cheek love song about multiple people, including myself.” It’s from her new EP Grapevine.
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MUGSHOT – “LIFE’S DEBT”
West Coast metallic hardcore trio Mugshot have announced a new EP, Cold Will, due November 3 via Pure Noise. New single “Life’s Debt” is “a commentary on the American economic and justice systems,” the band says, and it’s hard.
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RESAVOIR – “SUNDAY MORNING” (ft. ELTON AURA & WHITNEY)
Resavoir, the experimental music project led by Chicago’s Will Miller, will release a self-titled album on November 3 via International Anthem. “Sunday Morning” finds Resavoir teaming up with soft rock band Whitney and rapper Elton Aura for a chilled-out, genre-blending collab.
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SIA – “GIMME LOVE”
Sia is back with her first new music since 2021, anthemic new single “Gimme Love.” It’s from her new album Reasonable Woman, due out in Spring of 2024 via Atlantic Records.
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DEADSET – S/T EP
Tampa’s Deadset have signed to DAZE and their first release for the label is this self-titled EP, a four-song hearkening back to ’90s metallic hardcore.
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SNAIL MAIL – “EASY THING”
Snail Mail is releasing a new EP of demos from her most recent album, 2021’s Valentine, due out on November 3 via Matador. The EP also features melancholy previously unreleased track “Easy Thing.”
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COLD HART – “GAZER”
Cold Hart, who co-founded GothBoiClique alongside Wicca Phase Springs Eternal and Horse Head, has dropped off this new pop punk-leaning song via Epitaph.
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KISHI BASHI – “RED WHITE AND BLUE”
Kishi Bashi announced a new double album, Music from the Song Film: Omoiyari, due out November 17 via Joyful Noise Recordings. It’s the companion soundtrack to his upcoming A Song Film By Kishi Bashi: “Omoiyari”, and he’s shared new single “Red, White, and Blue,” which he says “is about the disillusionment we often feel for our country and our political system, personified through heartbreak. In both situations, we feel utter despair and hopelessness, but we know deep inside that as time passes, each wave of sorrow will be weakened and we will eventually return to our resilient humanity.”
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MARTHE – “FURTHER IN EVIL”
Italy-based one-woman metal band Marthe will release her debut LP Further In Evil on October 20 via Southern Lord. The just-released title track puts sludge, black metal, and crust punk in a truly evil blender.
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PAWS – “ONE NATION UNDER DOG”
“‘One Nation Under Dog’ is rooted in my fears for the future and feeling helpless; climate change, how we all interact with each other socially whilst tech advancement and social expectation in that world ramps up and on,” PAWS’ Jon Taylor says. “The title isn’t some big statement or anything. We just like the play on words for such a big statement. The main riff for this song sat for ages in a ‘paws?’ marked folder for when Josh and I could get together. Some things I write feel like they can only be a PAWS tune so it’s cool when it pans out and I like the track. It definitely feels like a staple PAWS song. It could be off any of the previous records and fit in…I like that.” It’s from their new self-titled album, due out on October 27 via Ernest Jenning Record Co.
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END – “THE SIN OF HUMAN FRAILTY”
Metalcore supergroup END (members of Counterparts, Fit For An Autopsy, Misery Signals, and more) have shared the polished-but-bone-crushing title track of their upcoming LP.
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CIRITH UNGOL – “VELOCITY (S.E.P.)”
Heavy metal veterans and cult heroes Cirith Ungol have announced a new album, Dark Parade, due October 20 via Metal Blade. Lead single “Velocity (S.E.P.)” finds both their wailing melodies and their evil aggression in fine form.
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SMUT – “18 TONS” & “Y SIGNAL”
Chicago band Smut have shared these two dreamy new tracks ahead of their tour with Knifeplay and Citizen.
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AXIS: SOVA – “I AM A GHOST”
“I Am a Ghost” is the latest glammy ripper from Axis: Sova’s upcoming album Blinded by Oblivion.
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LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE – REMECLAZA EP
Mexican psych-rock band Lorelle Meets the Obsolete are back with this EP of remixes by MEMORIALS, Dälek, SUUNS and Immersion (Colin Newman / Malka Spiegel).
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HEATMISER – “BOTTLE ROCKET (’92 CASSETTE)
Here’s another unearthed track from the expanded The Music of Heatmiser reissue. “I’m singing lyrics that are like a private language to myself,” says Neil Gust who led the band with the late Elliott Smith. “I wish I could go back to that time and talk to my younger self and say, ‘Just be honest about who you are. Don’t be afraid.’”
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MOUNT KIMBIE – “BOXING” (FEAT. KING KRULE)
“Boxing” leans into Mount Kimbie’s shoegaze side, with layers of hazy guitars and subtle electronics wrapping around Archy Marshall’s distinctive baritone.
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PRIVATE MIND – “IN VAIN”
Long Island melodic hardcore/emo band Private Mind have announced their debut album for Triple B, and you can read about lead single “In Vain” here.
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EARTHEATER – “CHOP SUEY” (SYSTEM OF A DOWN COVER)
Eartheater put an eerie spin on the System of a Down hit, which you can read more about here.
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SUFJAN STEVENS – “WILL ANYBODY EVER LOVE ME?”
Sufjan Stevens shared the second single off his new album Javelin, which you can read more about here.
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FOXING – “RORY” (2023) & PRINCE DADDY & THE HYENA – “RORY” (FOXING COVER)
Foxing have announced The Albatross: Ten Years, which includes two new versions of songs from the album and covers of eight of its songs by newer emo (and emo-adjacent) bands. These two “Rory”s are out today, and you can read more here.
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COMMON SAGE – “HIRAETH” (ft. FURTHER SEEMS FOREVER’S JASON GLEASON)
Brooklyn emo band Common Sage are gearing up to open Further Seems Forever‘s How to Start a Fire 20th anniversary shows, and now they’ve got a new single featuring guest vocals from How to Start a Fire vocalist Jason Gleason. Read about it here.
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STAY INSIDE – “AN INVITATION”
Brooklyn emo band Stay Inside (who share Chris Johns with Common Sage) also have a new song out today, and you can read about that here too.
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