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.
LIL PEEP & ILOVEMAKONNEN – “NOVEMBER”
Before Lil Peep’s 2017 passing, he made an album with iLoveMakonnen. That album, titled Diamonds, is now coming out next week (9/8) via AWAL. Peep’s estate calls it “the last cohesive previously unreleased full body of work.” The first taste is “November.”
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HEMLOCK ERNST (SAMUEL T. HERRING) – “INHERIT MY SPEECH” (ft. HEIGHT KEECH & BILLY WOODS)
Future Islands singer Samuel T. Herring has released a new song under his rap alter-ego Hemlock Ernst, and this one features fellow Baltimore artist Height Keech and the great NYC underground rapper billy woods.
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ROC MARCIANO & THE ALCHEMIST – “TURKEY WINGS” & “DNA”
Roc Marciano and The Alchemist have released a deluxe edition of last year’s great The Elephant Man’s Bones, with two additional songs that sound just as strong as anything on the original album.
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MIDWIFE & NYXY NYX – “IT’S OK 2 LIE 2 ME” b/w “ANDY”
Midwife and Nyxy Nyx teamed up on two gorgeous collaborative singles for Bandcamp Friday.
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JHAYCO & PESO PLUMA – “EX-SPECIAL”
Latin trap star Jhayco and corridos tumbados star Peso Pluma put their heads and musical styles together on “Ex-Special,” which also flirts with old school reggaeton, thumping club beats, and more.
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RID OF ME – “GUTTED” & “HELL OF IT”
Rid of Me’s sophomore album Access To The Lonely is out in November, and they’ve given us two more early tastes. Of “Gutted,” vocalist and bassist Itarya Rosenberg says, “I suffer from pretty severe depression. I am often suicidal but consistently persevere. I think about being a tree and dying among them when I focus on taking my own life. I also think about my friends, the people I love, and music, which is what helps me maintain. I am very, very lucky to love and be so loved, and to be able to create and play music with my best friends. It really helps keep me going. ‘Gutted’ is inspired by all of this.” About “Hell Of It,” she says, “Well, I am an alcoholic. I don’t drink anymore, but I was at one point pretty fucking wild. OK, I am still pretty wild, but I used to be next-level. And I was hyper absorbed by the action of obliteration because of the depth of my insecurities and unwillingness to face shit. This song is a reflection upon the many years I spent crushing booze and drugs and finding myself in many precarious situations. Avoiding myself. Hurting myself. Having a conceptually great time. Now, I reflect instead of indulge.”
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LIL WAYNE – “KAT FOOD”
Lil Wayne is back with a new single, and it finds him in fine form over a clattering, synth-fueled backdrop.
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NICKI MINAJ – “LAST TIME I SAW YOU”
Lil Wayne’s old friend Nicki Minaj has a new single out today too, and hers is a sentimental pop/rap hybrid full of regret about a person who’s no longer in your life.
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JID & LIL YACHTY – “VAN GOGH” & “HALF DOIN DOPE” (ft. BABYTRON)
JID and Lil Yachty are very different rappers, but they do a great job of meeting in the middle on these new collaborative songs, and the eccentric BabyTron adds his flavor to one of them too.
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BAT BOY – “DECODER RING”
Bat Boy–whose lineup includes Hannah Eagle, Jake from Spraynard, and Cory from Sundials–will release Fun Machine on October 20 via Asian Man Records, and lead single “Decoder Ring” is a very fun, catchy dose of indie-punk.
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GREG MENDEZ – LINING THE SHEETS
Greg Mendez shared an outtake from his self-titled 2023 album for Big Hug Records’ Volume One compilation, which benefits Lambda Legal.
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ANDY BELL (RIDE) & MASAL – “HALLOGALLO” (NEU! COVER)
“Al suggested that we do something special to finish off our gig, this was his first suggestion and I said yes immediately,” says Ride’s Andy Bell of this cover of Neu!’s classic “Hallogallo” that he made with previous collaborators Masal. “On the night, I was happy to be able to live out all my Michael Rother fantasies – even more than usual – and it’s super cool to have this moment captured for posterity.”
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LAUREN MAYBERRY – “ARE YOU AWAKE?”
Ahead of her first-ever solo tour, Lauren Mayberry of CHVRCHES has shared her debut solo single, a piano ballad called “Are You Awake?” “‘Are You Awake?’ is a song that started on a rainy day last December with Tobias Jesso Jr,” she says. “I was thinking a lot about loneliness and homesickness, and as soon as Tobias started playing the chords, the lyrics and melody came to me really quickly. I finished the song with my friend Matthew Koma, who really understood what I was trying to say. For a long time, I couldn’t imagine doing anything outside of CHVRCHES but I think some things that I needed to write had to be done from purely my own point of view. I never really thought I’d write a piano ballad, or a solo album full stop, so life really is full of surprises. I am really looking forward to this chapter and can’t wait for people to hear more of the music.”
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KATIE ALICE GREEN – MORE BARBARISM (COVERS OF TVOTR, BETA BAND, SPRINGSTEEN)
For Bandcamp Friday, former Priests singer Katie Alice Greer has released a new EP featuring a few originals as well as covers of songs by TV on the Radio, Bruce Springsteen, and Beta Band.
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GABBY’S WORLD – “OPEN THE DOOR”
The latest single from GABBY SWORD, which Gabby Smith is releasing a song a month all year, is “Open The Door.” “When one releases their art into the world, there is a sudden split in their persona that occurs between public and private,” she says. “‘Open the Door’ explores the delicate interplay between the two personas, trying to assess who they are and when and where it is appropriate for each to appear. In this song, each self asks for access to the other, but discovers self-protective obstacles between them. They rubberband apart and together, trying to figure out the best tension that comfortably holds both up at once.”
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THE HECKS – “LET’S DREAM” & “COWBOI”
It’s been four years since Chicago band The Hecks’ great second album, My Star, and they’re finally back with this two-track single.
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DARK TEA – “IRISH HELLO”
Gary Canino is back with a new Dark Tea single and a video that is indebted to the classic black and white noir era.
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MARINA HERLOP – “LA ALHAMBRA”
Catalan pianist, vocalist and producer Marina Herlop will release new album Nekkuja on October 27 and this is the first single.
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ULRIKA SPACEK – “TIER DROP” & “DEATH ON EVS”
Original vinyl copies of Ulrika Spacek’s great new album Compact Trauma came with a bonus 7″ featuring two additional tracks which have now hit streaming services. “The Tier Drop” is a reworked instrumental of the album’s opening track, entirely comprised of stems from the original recording. The band say, “It was really fun to deconstruct something that we had already recorded, removing the vocals allowed us to rebuild the song with a different dramaturgy, we wanted something filmlike and unfamiliar in sonic territory.”
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ADEEM THE ARTIST – “WHAT IF WE STAYED?”
“What if everyone in Knoxville gave us one dollar for this song and then we could buy a house here and never move away?” Help out Adeem with that on this Bandcamp Friday.
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THE STONE ROLLERS (WOOLEN MEN) – “STONE ROLLING”
The Stone Rollers is Raf from Pacific Northwest band Woolen Men and this is their theme song. Maybe their only song. “This song is really good. I wrote it myself. You’re going to love it or your money back, guaranteed.”
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BODY VOID – “COP SHOW”
Body Void have shared an eight-and-a-half minute noise-metal epic about police brutality from their anticipated new album Atrocity Machine.
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KVELERTAK – “ENDLING”
Kvelertak have shared the title track of their upcoming album Endling, and it combines their riffy metal with a more melodic vocal delivery than usual.
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38 SPESH & CONWAY THE MACHINE – “GOODFELLAS” (ft. BENNY THE BUTCHER)
The latest taste of 38 Spesh and Conway the Machine’s collaborative album Speshal Machinery is a dose of maifioso rap featuring Conway’s Griselda groupmate Benny the Butcher.
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CURREN$Y – “SLIDE” (ft. FENDI P, G STYLE & DOMINIC SCOTT)
Curren$y has been known to play shows with a live band, and his jazzy new single “Slide” is one of his most live-band-sounding studio tracks to date.
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SLUG – “BAD ACTORS” & “NOBODY’S FOOL”
Slug have a new LP coming out in early 2024 via Delayed Gratification, and they’ve just put out two new fast punk rippers on a 2023 promo.
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TITTYGRAVEYARD – “VOID”
tittygraveyard will release a self-titled album on October 13 via Fake Four Inc. Lead single “Void” is noisy, abstract rap in the vein of stuff like Backxwash, Death Grips, etc.
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QUEEN NAIJA – “NO FAKE LOVE” (ft. YOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE AGAIN)
R&B powerhouse Queen Naija taps Youngboy Never Broke Again for a new end-of-summer anthem, “No Fake Love.”
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ZION & LENNOX and ANUEL AA – “PARA SIEMPRE”
Reggaeton/Latin trap giants Zion & Lennox and Anuel AA put their heads together for the infectious “Para Siempre.”
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NICKY JAM – “CALOR” (ft. BEÉLE)
More reggaeton star power comes in the form of Nicky Jam’s new Beéle collab “Calor” and its beachy party video.
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BLANKET – BLUE EYES EP
UK atmospheric rock band blanket put out an EP which compiles two recent singles and covers of Radiohead, Post Malone, and a song from 28 Days Later.
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DOJA CAT – “DEMONS”
Doja Cat has launched pre-orders for her new album Scarlet and shared third single “Demons.” Read about it here.
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TIMBALAND, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE & NELLY FURTADO – “KEEP GOING UP”
16 years after Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, and Justin Timberlake teamed up to make one of the most timeless pop songs of the 2000s with “Give It To Me,” they’ve reunited on a new single, “Keep Going Up.” Read more here.
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