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.
JUSTINE SKYE – “WHIP IT UP”
Justine Skye shares a clubby R&B track and reveals that a new EP is on the way (details TBA).
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AZ – “THIS IS WHY” (prod. BUCKWILD)
Longtime Nas associate AZ will release a new album, Truth Be Told, on December 1 via Quiet Money, and the woozy, Buckwild-produced title track is out now.
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BAD BOY CHILLER CREW – “MEMORY”
UK dance-rap pranksters Bad Boy Chiller Crew will release their new album Influential on November 10 via Relentless. “Memory” is a slightly toned-down song for BBCC’s standards, but still a fun, thumping track.
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BLONDSHELL – “IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY” (SHERYL CROW COVER)
To celebrate Sheryl Crow’s upcoming induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Blondshell has shared a new cover of her hit “If It Makes You Happy” for Amazon Music. “I’ve always been inspired by Sheryl Crow’s voice and the way she approaches writing,” she says. “Her lyrics are so detailed but always have a conversational element too. I love when you can imagine an artist isn’t taking on another persona for their songs – they’re just speaking to you like they would speak to someone they know well. ‘If It Makes You Happy’ is a song that has been in my life for so many years and I have been singing it for so long. I have a lot of joy attached to it.”
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THE VOIDZ – “FLEXORCIST”
Just in time for Halloween, Julian Casablancas has shared this new Voidz song. The video, directed by Promiseland, features cameos from Weyes Blood and yes that’s Mac DeMarco as Satan.
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DURAN DURAN – “SPELLBOUND” (SIOXSIE & THE BANSHEES COVER)
Duran Duran release their Halloween-themed album Danse Macabre today and one of the highlights is this cover of Siouxsie & The Banshees’ goth classic “Spellbound.”
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MADNESS – “BABY BURGLAR”
Madness’ first album in seven years, Theatre Of the Absurd Presents C’Est La Vie, will be out at the end of November and here’s another song from it. “The story behind Baby Burglar is actually quite a funny one,” say the band. “It’s about Lee [Thomson] finding a midnight meddler loose in his house and how it reminded him of his younger self and all the shenanigans we used to get up to when we were whippersnappers.”
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SOPHIE MEIERS – “HOTLINE”
“I wrote this story from the perspective of a seemingly unassuming character who is actually wrapped up in some crazy shit,” sophie meiers says of the latest single off their new EP, crawl__space. “They look sweet and innocent from the outside, but they never show anybody who they really are.”
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PYLON REENACTMENT SOCIETY – “FLOWERS EVERYWHERE”
“Every now and then my lyrics are inspired by a meaningful conversation,” says Pylon / Pylon Reinactment Societ’s Vanessa Briscoe Hay of their new single. “Several years back, Pylon Reenactment Society opened for Cindy Wilson at a small club in North Carolina. A young woman shared with me that having her father’s record collection available to her in the middle of nowhere Alabama had ‘saved her life.’ I remarked to her that ‘flowers grow everywhere’ — thinking of my own upbringing in a rural community where music and art had kept me going — I was inspired by the hopefulness of teenagers wondering about the future, no matter their circumstances.” PRS’s album Magnet Factory will be out February 9.
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OMD – “ANTHROPOCENE”
Synthpop icons OMD just released Bauhaus Staircase, their best album in nearly 40 years, and here’s the video for its opening cut.
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SILVANA ESTRADA — “QUÉ PROBLEMA”
Mexican singer/songwriter Silvana Estrada shares a new nostalgia-inducing ballad, “Qué Problema.”
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MOWRI – “MAKE YU CHOKE” (ft. 13TH LAW & KEYANNA)
MOWRI reworks his 2021 single “Prevent Your Choke” as “Make Yu Choke,” and it’s a noisy, distorted track that, according to MOWRI’s Soundcloud, is “an overall rebellion against making yourself ‘smaller’ or censored for others to accept, as well as a condemnation to colonizers, systemic oppressors, even gentrifiers and ‘woke allies.’”
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BJ THE CHICAGO KID – “LONG TIME”
BJ The Chicago Kid has announced a new album produced entirely by Yeti Beats, Gravy, due November 10 via RTW/RCA. The syrupy, soulful “Long Time” is out now.
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FLYING RACCOON SUIT – “SUNFLOWER”
Every song shared so far from ska band Flying Raccoon Suit’s upcoming Bad Time debut Moonflower has been great and different in its own way, and “Sunflower” is no different. It finds the band leaning on a lighter trad-ska side, with some very catchy hooks.
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THE DROWNS – “BLACKED OUT”
The Drowns will release Blacked Out on February 16 via Pirates Press Records, and the just-released title track is a catchy, gritty punk anthem.
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SHADYSIDE – “WHEN THE FEAR HITS”
Shadyside will release their Higher Plans EP this fall via Mind Over Matter, and new single “When the Fear Hits” is gritty punk/post-hardcore in the vein of stuff like Hot Water Music and Small Brown Bike.
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INCENDIARY DEVICE – “INCENDIARY DEVICE”
Incendiary Device is a new band fronted by NYHC veteran/filmmaker Drew Stone, and their self-titled debut album arrives November 10 via Bridge 9. Here’s their eponymous song.
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CORY HANSON (WAND) – “I CAN’T KEEP MY EYES OPEN”
Wand’s Cory Hanson has shared the b-side to his “Western Cum” single.
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SPEARMINT – “MELODY’S MOTHER’S JAM”
UK indiepop vets will release new album This Candle is for You on November 17 and this is its breezy new single.
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CATBELLS – “GONE TOO FAR”
LA dreampop act Catbells released new album Partly Cloudy today and it’s loaded with sunny treats like this one.
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CRUSH OF SOULS (CHUCK ROWELL OF CROCODILES) – “WHO WILL SILENCE THE PIGS?”
Chuck Rowell from Crocodiles has a darkwave solo project called Crush of Souls and here’s the latest single from new album (A)Void Love, just in time for Halloween.
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TEETHE – “MOON”
Texas band Teethe have just released this new single as part of Saddle Creek’s Document Series. Say the band: “Moon is a song about love until death and the dreaming, inhibited moon – a circle that forever fades and grows, symbolizing the cycles we live in, the gravity of expectations, isolation, and the credence of loss and growth.”
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SPLLIT – INFINITIVE HATCH
Baton Rouge, LA duo SPLLIT make skronky, angular post-punk with lots of style and attitude. Their new album Infinite Hatch is out today.
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ROCKET – VERSIONS OF YOU
Like ’90s-style indie rock? So do LA’s Rocket who pack their new EP with crunchy, fuzzy delights.
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THE VELDT – “ANGEL HEART”
Here’s another track from The Veldt’s lost 1989 album that was produced by Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie and will be out November 24. Shimmery goodness.
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BLINK-182 – “CUT ME OFF” & “SEE YOU”
blink-182 have shared two bonus tracks from One More Time, and you can read about them here. They also played a Denny’s.
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