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.
MEGAN THEE STALLION – “COBRA”
Megan Thee Stallion employs distorted rock guitars and trap beats for her latest single, and her delivery is pure venom.
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THE LORD [SUNN O)))] & DANIEL KUBINSKI (DIE KREUZEN) – “PALLIARE”
The Lord [aka Greg Anderson of Sunn O)))] and Die Kreuzen vocalist Daniel Kubinski have an eerie new song out together called “Palliare.”
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GALE FORCES (ENGINE KID, THIS WHITE LIGHT) – “HIGHLIGHTS OF EXISTENCE”
In related news, Greg Anderson’s former Engine Kid and This White Light bandmate Jade Devitt’s band Gale Forces have just released their new album, along with a video for the title track.
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CLAIRE ROUSAY – “I NO LONGER HAVE THAT GLOWING THING INSIDE OF ME”
For Bandcamp Friday, claire rousay shared “i no longer have that glowing thing inside of me,” proceeds from which go to Anera, an organization dedicated to providing food and hygiene kits to families in Gaza displaced by war.
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PET SYMMETRY – “BIG ISLAND”
Pet Symmetry (members of Into It. Over It., Dowsing, Ratboys, and more) are working on a new album, and they’ve shared a song from the sessions, an emo-punk anthem called “Big Island.” They also note that the line “Aloha! Suit up!” is taken from the Drive Like Jehu song “Luau,” and they add, “Rest easy Rick.”
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GABBY’S WORLD – “MAGNIFY”
The final single off Gabby’s World’s new album GABBY SWORD, which they’ve been releasing a song a month all year, is “Magnify.” It’s about “the tension between the public and private selves,” they say, “between the career-facing Gabby and the Gabby of a personal life. My songs can be quite diaristic, so maintaining a boundary between the two can sometimes be complicated. In the end of the song, the lyric, “The world watches us / Copies our love / A thousand times / Does it magnify?” asking, does the act of spreading the stories found within my songs across the world amount to actual growth of the love described within them?”
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YARDBOSS – “HOUSE (NOW)”
Yardboss (whose vocalist/bassist Christian Roerig is also in The Raging Nathans) will release their new LP No Casket 1993 on November 17 via Rad Girlfriend Records. Its latest single is the sneering ripper “House (Now).”
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ANNA MIEKE – “ORNAMENT”
Anna Mieke shared a new b-side from her 2022 album Theatre. “An observation on time, love, passing on and the significance of what we leave behind after we go,” she says. “How objects/places take on a whole new meaning and role after the person they were attached to isn’t there anymore. Also a sort of looking at other lives lived and what could have been, not at all in a regretful way, just a curiosity in that. The song to me feels uplifting and outward-looking; the feeling of lightness that can come from a shift in perspective.”
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BENNY THE BUTCHER – “BIG DOG” (ft. LIL WAYNE, prod. ALCHEMIST)
Benny the Butcher has announced a new album, Everybody Can’t Go, expected in early 2024 via Def Jam/Roc Nation/Agency78. The first single is “Big Dog,” which you can read more about here.
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OLIVIA RODRIGO – “CAN’T CATCH ME NOW”
Following her new album Guts, Olivia Rodrigo has shared another new single, from the soundtrack of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which she wrote with regular collaborator Daniel Nigro.
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GINA VOLPE (LUNACHICKS) – “DRINK ME”
Gina Volpe of NYC punk vets Lunachicks (and Bantam) will release her first solo album, Delete the World, in February. Read about lead single “Drink Me” here.
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SHERYL CROW – “ALARM CLOCK”
Sheryl Crow announced her 11th album, Evolution, due out March 29. While she wasn’t planning on releasing another LP after 2018’s Threads, she says, ““I started sending just a couple of demos to Mike, but the songs just kept flowing out of me and it was pretty obvious this was going to be an album.”
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DEATH PILL – “MONSTERS”
Ukraine hardcore band Death Pill have a split single with London hardcore band Shooting Daggers arriving November 17, and their contribution is out now. It’s a ripper that the band says is “about how our parents knowingly or unknowingly lose their children.” Read more here.
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SEVDALIZA – “NOTHING LASTS FOREVER” FT. GRIMES
“Admiration and adoration turn into weapons when women challenge expectations,” Sevdaliza says of her new collaboration with Grimes, “Nothing Lasts Forever.” “True liberation is breaking free from inner and outer expectations, a journey worth embracing despite the bruises.” It’s her second single of the year.
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MINISTRY – “JUST STOP OIL”
We’re still five months out from Ministry’s new album HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES but they’ve just shared a new track. Ministry approves this message and the movement behind it,” says Al Jourgensen of “Just Stop Oil,” which has a Land of Rape & Honey vibe. “ENOUGH is ENOUGH!”
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JOHNNY MARR – “THE ANSWER”
Johnny Marr’s solo best-of comp Spirit Power is out today and comes with two new songs. One of those is “The Answer” which is one of his most agressive songs since “The Queen is Dead.”
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THE OH SEES – “EXPERT OF INNER VISION”
John Dwyer has unearthed this “little pop gem” that was originally supposed to be on 2007 The Oh Sees’ Sucks Blood album but ended up not making the cut.
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DANIEL AVERY – “NEED ELECTRIC (2023 REDUX)”
Daniel Aver’s Drone Logic turned 10 this year and to celebrate, he’s reissued the album along with a “Redux” EP. “The three versions of Drone Logic Redux were born out of my live show, which I began touring around the Ultra Truth album,” says Daniel. “Every single note on that tour was deconstructed and rebuilt to create a singular flow encompassing the last ten years of music. I was incredibly excited and inspired by the shape all the versions took, and, of course, to see the crowd reactions. It felt right to send some of them out into the world like this. These tracks are intended to sit alongside the originals. They are companion pieces from a different camera angle. The same heart beating with a new vibration.”
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THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS – “GOODBYE (EROL ALKAN REWORK)”
Erol Alkan has remixed “Goodbye” from The Chemical Brothers new album, For That Beautiful Feeling. “Everything came together beautifully within a few days, from making the remix to road testing it the following gig that week, which just so happened to be a support slot with the Chemicals playing live in Cardiff,” says Alkan. “Since then, I’ve played it every set, sometimes at the very end as it was in some ways designed to be the last record of the night.”
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