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.
IRON CHIC – “ANCIENT PISTOL” & “ENJOY THE SILENCE” (DEPECHE MODE COVER)
Long Island’s Iron Chic deliver a new ragged anthem and a Depeche Mode cover.
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SEXYY RED – “FREE MY N***A”
The year of Sexyy Red continues with an upcoming deluxe edition of Hood Hottest Princess, including this new single.
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KALI UCHIS & KAROL G – “LABIOS MORDIDOS”
Kali Uchis and Karol G have both been on a roll lately, and now they put their heads together for the super catchy reggaeton duet “Labios Mordidos.”
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RYDER & SKEPTA – “ALL ALONE” (ft. DRÉ SIX)
Ryder and Skepta dropped the collaborative EP 48 HOURS, along with a video for the ballad-driven soul/rap hybrid “All Alone.”
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VIENTRE – “FIEL DE FECHOS”
Colombian band Vientre returned over the weekend with 90 seconds of screamo fury.
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HOLLOW SUNS – “ALL YOU GOT”
Tokyo band Hollow Suns’ new single for Sunday Drive Records was mixed and mastered by Will Yip, and it’s a grungy, shoegazy banger that’ll take you right back to the ’90s.
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BARDO POND – “WAR IS OVER PART 1”
Slowcore greats Bardo Pond have been digging through their archives for unreleased material and the latest findings have been collected in Volume 9 which will be out February 23 via Fire Records. “It documents a period in the early 2000s when we were jamming with Michael Zanghi,” says the band’s Michael Gibbons. “Mike is a great drummer and musician and the music that we created with him has a unique feel.”
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ENGLISH TEACHER – “MASTERMIND SPECIALISM”
UK group English Teacher have shared another new single. “Decision paralysis is an ache that has murmured in me through sitting on smaller fences, through to questioning my theology, my sexuality, my career and so on,” singer Lily Fontaine says of “Mastermind Specialism.” “Watching Jaco Van Dormael’s incredible sci-fi/fantasy Mr Nobody put the cause and effect of this issue into perspective; my life has been consistent in its inconsistency. 12 different houses across the country and mixed-race I’ve always been a bit in-between and I think that’s where this song, and a lot of the songs we’re due to release, come from.”
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JOZEF VAN WISSEM – “THE DEVIL IS A FAIR ANGEL AND THE SERPENT A SUBTLE BEAST”
Dutch composer and lute player Jozef Van Wissem will release new album The Night Dwells In the Day on Jan 19 via Incunabulum Records. “It’s like a part of my body,” says Wissem of the relationship he has to the lute. “The complexity of it is what keeps me going because you can always find something new.” Check out this atmospheric track from the album.
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VILLAGERS – “THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY” FT LISA HANNIGAN
“Since I was a little boy this song by Katherine Kennicott Davis has captured my imagination more than any other Christmas carol,” Villagers’ Conor O’Brien says of his take on holiday classic “The Little Drummer Boy.” “Such a dream to perform it alongside the incomparable voice of Lisa Hannigan.”
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LOVING – “MEDICINE”
Canadian duo Loving (Jesse Henderson and David Parry) release their new album Any Light on February 9 via Last Gang. “This was playfully written as a chronicle of our friend’s recent psychedelic adventures,” says Henderson of this new song from it. “He’s the sort who is always looking for a cure.”
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SNOTTY NOSE REZ KIDS- “’96 BULLS” FT. DREZUS
“The ’96 Bulls team was the most legendary team of all time,” says Snotty Nose Rez Kids’ Yung Trybez of the group’s new single and video. “’96 Bulls,’ for us, is about building a team that’s legendary status. It’s about building a legacy and the legacy that we’re trying to attain is so important to us because of who looks up to us: the youth of future generations.” He continued, “we can always look back to the ’96 Bulls and say that was one of the greatest teams of all time and likewise, we want Indigenous youth to look back at Snotty Nose Rez Kids and say that was one of the greatest rap groups of all time. We are here to leave something behind that people will remember. It’s all about us making history and the ’96 Bulls made history.”
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REAL ESTATE – “WATER UNDERGROUND”
This is the first single from Real Estate’s upcoming sixth album and the video for “Water Underground” is an homage to beloved ’90s Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete, with a lot of nods/references to specific episodes, and co-starring the Petes themselves, Danny Tamberelli and Michael Maronna.
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PETER GABRIEL – “LIVE AND LET LIVE”
Peter Gabriel’s long-awaited new album i/o — his first of all new material in 20 years — is out Friday and here’s the final song from it, in both the Bright-Side and Dark-Side mixes.
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GOGOL BORDELLO FT BERNARD SUMNER – “SOLIDARITY” (ANGELIC UPSTARTS COVER)
Gogol Bordello have shared a new single, a cover of Angelic Upstarts’ “Solidarity,” which features New Order‘s Bernard Summer. “This is a particularly meaningful collaboration for us,” Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz says. “To do this tribute with one of the most masterful and brilliant pioneers, Bernard Sumner, is truly epic and timely.” Hutz and Sumner each take a verse on the cover, and Bernard also did his own “Right to Freedom” mix of the song.
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THE INEVITABLES – “CHEMIST”
Ska supergroup The Inevitables (members of Less Than Jake, Big D and the Kids Table, Bomb the Music Industry!, Westbound Train, Reel Big Fish, and more) have signed to Bad Time Records, and their first single for the label is “Chemist.” Read more here.
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