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.
A. SAVAGE (PARQUET COURTS) – “BLACK HOLES, THE STARS AND YOU”
Parquet Courts’ A. Savage begins his UK/EU tour tonight and to celebrate he’s got a tour single featuring this outtake from last year’s Several Songs About Fire. “I love the groove that John Parish and Dylan Hadley lay down here, using various Latin percussion instruments,” says Savage. “It’s a song that I’d been working on for a few years, that had way too many parts and lyrics, which John really helped me sculpt down into what it is now, bless him. The song is about the different ways people see each other, and how the smaller we feel the bigger others seem. Sometimes you find yourself orbiting someone who has no idea of their own magnitude. Sometimes you feel like they are examining you in a Petri dish, their gaze a magnified eye in the sky.”
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MRCY – “LORELEI”
MRCY, the duo of producer Barney Lister and vocalist Kojo Degraft-Johnson, have shared their debut single for Dead Oceans, the soulful “Lorelei.” “‘Lorelei’ is about being in a romantic situation that you know will result in heartbreak,” Kojo says, “but you’re too under the spell to get out of it. The lyrics come from the ancient tale of Lorelei, a mythical creature that leads navigators and those sailing to their demise with its beauty and song – ‘I thought I saw you walking by the riverside’ and ‘the summer storm’s still on my mind.’”
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HEEMS – “SRI LANKA” (FEAT. YOUR OLD DROOG)
Heems has shared a second song off his forthcoming album, LAFANDAR, and this one features Your Old Droog.
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BRAINSTORY – “HANGING ON” FT. CLAIRO
CA trio Brainstory are releasing their second album, Sounds Good, due April 19 via Big Crow Records, and Clairo’s Claire Cottrill features on “Hanging On.” The collaboration “happened rather organically,” the band say. “We met Claire through Leon and whenever we would be in New York City, she would always come and hang out with us. When we were tracking vocals she agreed to lend her sweet voice to make the song that much better.”
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PISSED JEANS – “SIXTY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS IN DEBT”
Philly punks Pissed Jeans’ new song is a ripper about the debt crisis and is on their forthcoming album Half Divorced.
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GOUGE AWAY – “DALLAS”
Gouge Away’s first new album in six years, Deep Sage, arrives in March, and they’ve shared another new single, “Dallas.” Vocalist Christina Michelle says, “I wrote the lyrics to this song at a time when I was at absolute rock bottom and felt like there were no options left. I realized that I had subconsciously been seeking help by acting recklessly. When I realized behaving this way was hurting people who loved me, it made me recognize that I had to change, if not for myself, then for them. The music for this song came to life while the guys were waiting for soundcheck to start in Dallas, TX. Years later, this song has gone through the most changes out of any of them but the phone recordings and demos were always referred to as ‘Dallas.’ So being nostalgic like we are, we kept the song title the same.”
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JAD FAIR – “WORM BOY”
Half Japanese’s Jad Fair has shared another song from his upcoming uberwork 100 Songs (A Master Class In Songwriting). Jad also drew, animated and edited the video.
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MIDNIGHT – “F.O.A.L.”
Speed metallers Midnight announced their sixth album, Hellish Expectations, due out March 8 via Metal Blade Records. The first single is “F.O.A.L.,” and main man Athenar says, “‘Fuck Off And Live’ is an ode to the people who peacefully want to die to escape the realities of life, while they should really live and suffer.”
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JERRY DAVID DECICCA & BILL CALLAHAN – “FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS” (BRUCE COCKBURN COVER)
Tompkins Square Records is releasing a tribute album to singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn on April 19. It features covers by Wet Tuna, Eli Winter, Matthew “Doc” Dunn, and this version of “Forty Years in the Wilderness” by Jerry David DeCicca and Bill Callahan.
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COMEBACK KID – “DISRUPTION”
“‘Disruption’ serves as our call to arms type song,” Comeback Kid vocalist Andrew Neufeld says. “It’s about just getting through the next day, or the next step because it could all come crashing down at any given moment.” It’s from their new EP Trouble, which arrives in March.
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PSYMON SPINE – “BORED OF GUITAR”
Brooklyn’s Psymon Spine has shared this funky, skronky track from upcoming album Head Body Connector. Says bandleader Noah Prebish: “‘Bored of Guitar’ was one of the earlier tracks we worked on for Head Body Connector. Like many of our songs, it started as two separate ideas that Peter, Michael, and I smashed into one and then expanded upon. The lyrics came to me piecemeal inspired by conversations I had been having with Michael about the kind of guitar-centric dude rock bands we were getting tired of seeing. The underlying fear for me, of course, was that we were one of those bands. Nothing disgusts a person like seeing in others what bothers them about themselves. The song is an amped-up meditation on (amongst other things) self-criticism, priorities shifting around, and the hilarious, painful, beautiful, humiliating, exhilarating experience of being in a band. It’s also about me working on my relationship with my younger self, the one who set most of my current life experiences into motion long ago. I love him and we’ve both got notes for each other.”
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CLAIRE ROUSAY – “HEAD”
claire rousay announced her first album for Thrill Jockey, sentiment, due out on April 19, and shared the first single, “head,” a gentle ambient track with distorted vocals and strings.
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DUSTIN KENSRUE – “DEATH VALLEY HONEYMOON” FT. CAT CLYDE
Thrice vocalist Dustin Kensrue announced an alt-country solo album, and shared the first single, which you can read more about here.
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CADENCE WEAPON – “PRESS EJECT”
Cadence Weapon’s new album ROLLERCOASTER features Bartees Strange, Loraine James, Austra, Jacques Greene, Machinedrum, and more and is out April 19. Here’s the first single.
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NECROT – “CUT THE CORD”
Necrot announced their third album and shared the lead single, which you can read more about here.
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MELVINS – “WORKING THE DITCH”
Melvins’ new album Tarantula Heart is “definitely the weirdest album I’ve ever been a part of,” says bassist Steven McDonald. Dig the two-drummer attack on “Working the Ditch.”
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MANNEQUIN PUSSY – “NOTHING LIKE”
Mannequin Pussy shared another single off their anticipated new album I Got Heaven, which you can read more about here.
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THE DECEMBERISTS – “BURIAL GROUND”
It’s Decemberists’ first song in six years.
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RESTORATIONS – “CURED”
Restorations announced their first album since 2018, and the first taste is “Cured,” which you can read more about here.
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