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.
DEATHCRASH – “HITS” & “TENS”
Deathcrash have announced a deluxe edition of this year’s great Less featuring two new songs and remixes by Water From Your Eyes, Mandy Indiana, and more. The two new songs are out now, and both find the slowcore-ish band’s sound in fine form.
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SHABAZZ PALACES – “WOKE UP IN A DREAM” (ft. LIL TRACY)
Shabazz Palaces’ Ishmael Butler and his son Lil Tracy usually make very different styles of music, but they come together for something seamless on this psychedelic rap song. Ishmael says, “My son hella influences me, and not just musically. He was home visiting, and we were just lounging around, talking shit and smoking weed, etc. Over the course of the night, he would go in and lay stuff down. Between breaks for eating and watching the game, he’d go back in, layering and sculpting and then floating the background ghost vocals. I was trying to play it cool, but I was geeked – when I heard what he did, I was like, “DAMN, this dude is really HIM.”
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CIVIC – “HOURGLASS”
Just ahead of their first North American tour, Aussie garage punks CIVIC have shared this new burner recorded during the same sessions as this year’s Taken by Force.
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MARIKA HACKMAN – “NO CAFFEINE”
UK artist Marika Hackman is back with her first new music in four years. Playful and melodic, “No Caffeine” splits the difference, sonically, between her elegant debut album and her more pop-oriented second album. Let’s hope there’s more like this to follow soon.
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MOLLY BURCH – “DAYDREAMER”
Molly Burch’s new album Daydreamer is out later this month, and the latest single is “Tattoo,” a ballad featuring backing vocals and harp from Luna Li. “I wrote this song for my best friend Lena who passed away when we were 19,” Molly says. “She was truly the most special person I’ve ever known. It’s hard to describe her. She was the most fearless, daring person who did anything for a laugh. For example, on our senior year scavenger hunt she got a teacher’s name tattoo’d on her ass. That isn’t the tattoo I’m referring to on this song, though. Before she passed she got a symbol on her breast bone that meant ‘no fear.’ After she passed I decided to get the same tattoo in the same place so I would always have her close to my heart and remember to not be afraid. I wrote this song for her because Daydreamer is about my relationship to music and she was the first person I played music with. I hope it does her justice.”
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SALLY SHAPIRO – “RENT” (PET SHOP BOYS COVER)
“I am a longtime fan of Pet Shop Boys and have been thinking from time to time about covering some PSB song, without any clear idea of how to do it,” says Sally Shapiro’s Johan Agebjörn. “Suddenly it became apparent that the melancholic and painfully beautiful harmonies of ‘Rent’ would suit our style perfectly, and I started playing a synth line over the chorus.”
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SUN JUNE – “JOHN PRINE” & “EASY VIOLENCE”
Sun June have given us two more early tastes of their new album Bad Dream Jaguar, the dreamy “John Prine” and “Easy Violence.”
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MUNYA – “BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE” (NEW ORDER COVER)
Munya’s cover of New Order’s classic 1986 single “Bizarre Love Triangle” falls somewhere between the orignal and Frente’s acoustic version which was a hit in 1992. “I heard them for the first time when I was a kid,” says Josie Boivin (who is Munya). “My big sisters forbade me from entering their rooms, but when they would leave for school, I’d sneak in and listen to their CDs, and [Frente’s] cover became one of my favorite songs. I listened to it again for the first time in a while recently and I knew I had to include it in Jardin.”
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THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE – “CONDUCTORS”
The Rural Alberta Advantage announced their first full-length album in six years, The Rise & The Fall, due out October 6 via Saddle Creek/Paper Bag Records. The first single is the propulsive, percussive “Conductors,” about which Nils Edenloff says, “There is so much I love about being in a band. But one of its most fundamental aspects causes me more mental anguish than anything else, and that’s actually writing songs. When I’m able to tune out the doubting voice in my head and get it done, there’s no greater feeling. But often the devil wins and it’s easier to just run away. Paul and Amy know about this struggle, and are usually very supportive. But when the world was first getting swept up in ChatGPT and we were deep in the songwriting process, Paul found it hilarious to ask the bot to create lyrics in the style of ‘The Rural Alberta Advantage’. I guess being reminded that you’re easily replaceable got me thinking about why I run from something I know can, and often does, bring me so much joy. I can say with total honesty none of the lyrics Paul coaxed from the AI made it onto the record, nor did any particularly move me. So for now, good old fashioned sweat, pen to paper inspiration still won the day for us.”
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WORLDS GREATEST DAD – “KO”
Atlanta emo band Worlds Greatest Dad have returned with a yearning, anthemic new single.
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GLASSER – “EASY”
“It was about a dream that we were in the same place, and it was a very playful dream,” Glasser says of “Easy,” the latest single off her new album crux. “It felt like finally some kind of return to some of the good feelings around knowing someone despite their end.”
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ME REX – “GIANT GIANT GIANT”
UK band ME REX have shared another taste of their upcoming album Giant Elk, and it’s a soaring, melodic, slightly-off-kilter indie pop song that comes with a fantasy-inspired music video.
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MS MR – “SATURN RETURN” & “FLAGPOLE SITTA” (HARVEY DANGER COVER)
MS MR have returned from a 7 year hiatus to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of their debut album, Secondhand Rapture, and to formally announce the end of the project. They’ve shared new single “Saturn Return” and a cover of Harvey Danger’s “Flagpole Sitta.”
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CAPRA – “HUMAN COMMODITY” (ft. WALLS OF JERICHO’S CANDACE PUOPOLO)
Metallic hardcore band Capra have shared another rager off their upcoming LP Errors. This track features Wall of Jericho’s Candace Puopolo (who also appears with the band in the video), and guitarist Tyler Harper says, “I grew up listening to Walls of Jericho and they were always a major influence on my music. To have a legend involved with what we’re doing is such a rad feeling.”
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BLONDSHELL – “STREET RAT”
Blondshell announced a deluxe edition of her self-titled debut album, one of our favorites of the year so far, with a new version of “Street Rat,” which she’s been performing live for a while. “I wrote ‘Street Rat’ the day we finished tracking the album so it really feels like part of the same era to me,” she says. “If I had written it one day earlier it would’ve been on the album. It’s a song about all of the mental gymnastics behind wanting to give up a bad habit, but not being able to despite knowing you should.”
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EVIAN CHRIST – “ON EMBERS”
Electronic musician Evian Christ has announced a new album–which is technically his first full-length–Revanchist, due October 20 via Warp. The first single is the pounding, noisy “On Embers.”
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A.A. WILLIAMS – “WITHOUT YOU I’M NOTHING” (PLACEBO COVER)
Ahead of her tour with Sleep Token, dark singer/songwriter A.A. Williams has shared a new cover of Placebo’s “Without You I’m Nothing.” “When I first discovered Placebo as a teen, I felt as if I’d found a world just for me,” she says. “Barely a day went by without their songs in my headphones, their explorations of angst, frustration and alienation speaking to me like nothing I’d heard before… Simultaneously brand new and familiar, I felt that I’d been understood for the first time, all the while being fed with musical styles I wasn’t familiar with – glam, goth, electro and punk were all introduced to me through Placebo’s melancholy lens… I’ve dreamed of covering a Placebo song for years. I think it always had to be ‘Without You I’m Nothing,’ a song of longing and loss that for me will always feel current and relevant, as someone who always felt that human connection was the key to happiness – and as an outsider looking in, as someone uncomfortable in their own skin.”
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GLORILLA – “WRONG ONE” (ft. GLOSS UP, SLIMERONI, K CARBON & ALEZA, prod. TAY KEITH)
Memphis rapper GloRilla ad her ratchet-ass friends are back together again on this new posse cut from Glo and her whole crew.
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EMPTY COUNTRY – “DAVID”
Empty Country, the current focus of Cymbals Eat Guitars’ Joseph D’Agostino, has shared the song written in tribute to his late friend and mentor, David Berman of Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, from his upcoming album Empty Country II. It’s a compelling song, with Joe’s idiosyncratic songwriting style in fine form.
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BROKEN VOW – “REVERSAL”
New England hardcore band Broken Vow have shared another hard-hitter from their upcoming debut LP for Triple B, Anthropocene. Like on the last single, the chugging riffs and environmentally-conscious lyrics suggest a love of Earth Crisis, but Broken Vow make it their own.
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PUTRASCENSION (mem TOMBS, REPLICANT, etc) – “STILLNESS”
Putrascension are a NJ metal band with members of Windfaerer, Replicant, WolfCloak, Tombs, Abacinate, Kalopsia, and Hammer Fight, and their debut album Forever Below arrives October 6 via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. Here’s its blackened, gothy new single.
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PIP BLOM – “GET BACK”
“One of the things I am most happy with on this album is the vocal sound,” says Pip Blom in regards to the latest single from the forthcoming Bobbie. “My voice sounds warm and intimate, but also punchy and fierce at other times. During the recording of the vocals in the chorus, we laughed a lot because it turned out to be quite difficult to say Get Back so many times in a row. I love how Get Back is both a rock song but still sounds very produced. A recurring phenomenon on Bobbie is the vocals with a lot of autotune, which can also be heard in the bridge of this song. Get Back may be one of the loudest songs on the album, yet Claudius managed to give it an even bigger lift in volume and intensity in the last chorus. Hats off!”
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NZCA LINES – “UNIVERSAL HEARTBREAK”
With Metronomy on touring hiatus, Michael Lovett has more time to focus on his own project NZCA Lines and has a new EP, Universal Heartbreak, due 9/22 via Memphis Industries. This is the title track. “The lyrics of this song draw on darker moments in recent years where I have been poring over mistakes I feel I’ve made, falling into despair, unable to see a way forward,” says Lovett. “The chorus (“but it’s too late / for universal heartbreak”) is me telling myself – and my partner, friends, and everyone – that we can’t afford to dwell on this. Not necessarily that it’s all going to be ok, but that we have to pick ourselves up, and the only way out is to move forward.”
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WHITELANDS – “THE PROPHET & I”
UK shoegaze/dreampop up-and-comers Whitelands are back with a new single that’s out now Sonic Cathedral. “The inspiration for this song was the Amen break and breakbeats as a whole,” says singer and guitarist Etienne. “I was listening to psiX’s album ‘Room 99’ a lot and when I was writing the song I just had the Amen break looping over and over.”
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KATIE VON SCHLEICHER – “EVERY STEP IS AN OCEAN”
Katie von Schleicher has announced new album A Little Touch of Schleicher which will be out October 20 via Sipsman. She made it with Sam Evian and “Every Step is an Ocean” is the latest single.
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ANGEL OLSEN – “GREENVILLE” (LUCINDA WILLIAMS COVER)
Previously released last year as on Amazon, Angel Olsen’s Lucinda Williams cover is now available on all streaming services.
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VINCE CLARKE (ERASURE) – “THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH”
Vince Clarke, synthpop great and founding member of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure, has announced his debut solo album, Songs of Silence, which will be out November 17 via Mute. “The infinite shades of sounds you can create with just the tiniest tweak of a knob or slider continues to fascinate me,” he says. The video for “The Lamentations of Jeremiah” was directed by BrooklynVegan contributor Ebru Yildiz!
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FALSE FED (AMEBIX, DISCHARGE, NAUSEA) – “THE TYRANT DIES”
False Fed is a new-ish band with some familiar faces–current Discharge vocalist Jeff Janiak, founding Amebix guitarist Stig C. Miller, drummer Roy Mayorga (Nausea, Ministry, Soulfly, Stone Sour, Amebix), and bassist JP Parsons–and they’re gearing up to release their debut album Let Them Eat Fake in October via Neurot Recordings. Read about new single “The Tyrant Dies” here.
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TKAY MAIDZA – “WUACV”
Tkay Maidza shared another track off her upcoming sophomore album Sweet Justice, which you can read more about here.
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PAINT IT BLACK – “FAMINE”
Paint It Black have announced their first album in 10 years, Famine, and you can read about the lead single/title track here.
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SAMPHA – “ONLY”
Sampha detailed his new album Lahai and shared another single from it, which you can read more about here.
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THE ROLLING STONES – “ANGRY”
The Rolling Stones have shared the first single off their first album of original music in 18 years, Hackney Diamonds. The video stars actress Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, The White Lotus, etc) riding around West Hollywood in an open convertible. Read more here.
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