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.
CHELSEA WOLFE – “EVERYTHING TURNS BLUE”
Making a split with someone after 10 years, 20 years, 30 years — there’s going to be some high highs and low lows as you begin to process it all,” Chelsea Wolfe says of “Everything Turns Blue,” the latest preview of her upcoming album She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She. The album’s out February 9 and we’ve got an exclusive translucent berry vinyl edition that’s limited to 500 copies.
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FEEO – “IT WAS THEN THAT I”
London songwriter and producer Theodora Laird announced a new EP as feeo, run over, due out on March 21, and the first single is hypnotic art pop track “it was then that i.” “‘it was then that i’ is about a moment, as brief or fleeting as it may be, where you find yourself completely satiated,” Laird says. “You could not ask for more, overwhelmed by the sense of the divine that you have found in the body of your partner.”
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JAKOBS CASTLE (SUBLIME’S JAKOB NOWELL) – “CATCH ME”
The late Bradley Nowell’s son Jakob Nowell is now officially the singer of Sublime, who are playing Coachella, and he also announced his debut album for Epitaph under the name Jakobs Castle, Enter: The Castle. It’s due out April 12 and new single “Catch Me” is here now.
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ELIZA MCLAMB – “MODERN WOMAN”
Eliza McLamb’s anticipated new album is out this Friday, and ahead of its release she’s shared a final advance single. “Modern Woman” is a catchy indie rock track that’s fleshed out with hyperspecific details.
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COLIN NEWMAN (WIRE) – “TURN”
Wire singer/guitarist Colin Newman is rereleasing his 1997 album Bastard on January 26 and it comes with four previously unreleased bonus tracks, incluing “Turn.” “Jungle / Drum & Bass was the true sound of mid-90’s London – even if the ‘industry’ and its apologists wanted you to believe it was Brit pop,” says Newman. “‘Turn,’ the sole vocal track on Bastard, on which Malka sang instead of me, can be viewed as a creative riposte by us to the sad regurgitation of my own work from 20 years earlier by Elastica et al. Malka & I have always believed in the long game.”
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OR BEST OFFER – “FROM WHICH CENTER?”
The latest single from NYC-based noise rock duo or best offer’s new album for Ba Da Bing, Center, is “from which center?,” which builds layers of grungy noise atop delicate folk. “This was the first of the batch of songs that would become this album, so I consider it a sort of mother– of me, of this project, and of a new, more loose and associative way of writing and collaborating between Brian and I,” Grace Schmidhauser says. “It tumbled into existence and presented itself to me as a balm, a messy mission statement. The rest of the project cascaded very naturally from its center; the song is about listening for the voices of objects, making a small room into a home, the benevolent hallucinations and wonder that can emerge in solitude, letting yourself be known, learning how to apologize, and reading the Bible as a form of flirtation.”
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WORST DOUBT – “RUINATION”
French metallic hardcore band Worst Doubt have announced a new EP, Immortal Pain, due March 1 via DAZE, and lead single “Ruination” is especially brutal.
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VILLAGERS – “THAT GOLDEN TIME”
Villagers, aka Dublin singer-songwriter Conor O’Brien, announced his fifth album, That Golden Time, due out May 10 via Domino. The first single the title track. “I wanted the warmth of the record reflected in its title,” O’Brien says. “The song also touches on a theme that keeps cropping up, of romanticism versus realism. How can you have aspirational ideas about yourself and the world around you, whilst being confronted with a harsh, cold reality? The friction interested me.”
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JOY ORBISON – “FLIGHT FM”
Joy Orbison is back and sounds as ready to command dancefloors as ever with this new single for XL.
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MOURN – “COULD BE FRIENDS”
Barcelona’s Mourn are back with the upbeat, pop-punky “Could Be Friends,” which they say is the first taste of their new album.
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ANGRY BLACKMEN – “DEAD MEN TELL NO LIES” (ft. FATBOI SHARIF)
Industrial rap duo Angry Blackmen tap the great Fatboi Sharif to add even more venom to their latest single from The Legend of ABM.
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LOVING – “NO MAST”
Canadian duo Loving release their new album Any Light next month, and the latest single is “No Mast,” a twangy folk track. ”
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THE BODY & DIS FIG – “DISSENT, SHAME”
Experimental duo The Body and electronic musician/vocalist (and The Bug collaborator) Dis Fig (aka Felicia Chen) have shared another song from their collaborative album Orchards of a Futile Heaven, and it’s another alluring fusion of heavy music and electronic music.
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ELLIS – “OBLITERATE ME”
Ontario dream pop artist Ellis announced a new album, no place that feels like, due out April 26. It features her November single “forever,” and she’s shared a second new track, “obliterate me.” “One of my best friends told me about this dream she had where she physically died and her consciousness just continued to exist in this completely silent, vast, empty space and we were talking about how that would be the absolute worst-case scenario for an after-life,” she says. “At a party later that night we jokingly made a list of all of the things we would rather happen to us when we die – that’s what ‘obliterate me’ is about. I also did scream-cry to ‘Karma Police’ whilst driving fast down the highway, so…”
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MAD CADDIES – “BABY”
California ska-punk vets Mad Caddies have a new album, Arrows Room 117, arriving this year via 55 Rose Records (USA) and SBÄM Records (Europe), and new single “Baby” brings elements of polka and country into their trademark ska-punk sound.
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SHYGIRL – “TELL ME” (ft. BOYS NOIZE)
Shygirl will release a guest-filled EP called Club Shy on February 9 via Because Music, and this thumping new Boys Noize collab very much earns the “club” title.
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LUTALO & CLAUD – “RUNNING”
About their new collaboration with Claud, Lutao says, “‘Running’ focuses on a stressed parent-child relationship. A story of a child feeling neglected, only to be acknowledged when a problem is deemed large enough that the parent feels obligated to care about it. Though there is pain and resentment built within these interactions, the child still reaches out for the attention of their parent. Only to be continuously let down and pushed away. With this song, my goal was to produce something that felt like a nostalgic indie pop track. Claud had the perfect voice for the idea and filled the role well. They understood the direction and feeling I was going for and really delivered. I wanted something that not only showed my flexibility as a producer but was catchy and allowed the listener to have fun.”
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SHOOTING DAGGERS – “SMUG”
UK punks Shooting Daggers will release their new LP Love & Rage on February 16 via New Heavy Sounds, and new single “Smug” has a Turnstile-y mix of chugging guitars and soaring hooks.
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ED HARCOURT – “DEATHLESS”
British singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt will release his new album El Magnifico on March 29 and here’s the video for his latest single. Ed says it was written in one night during a fever dream: “This is a darker & heavier track from the record; basically it’s my attempt to write ‘Who Wants To Live Forever’ but if it was trying to punch it’s way out of a metal box. Absolutely blessed to have a brilliantly woozy string arrangement from Fiona Brice (John Grant / Placebo). My erstwhile co-navigator, Dave Izumi Lynch, really stepped up to the plate here and delivered a storming final mix; manipulating tape machines, dropping subharmonic sonic A-Bombs and flipping the song on it’s back and tickling it until it screamed for sweet mercy. Listen to it loudly until the neighbours call the cops.”
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WINTER – “THE LONELY GIRL”
Samira Winter, who will be on tour with Drop Nineteens later this winter, has shared a new single. “This was the first song I wrote after releasing What Kind of Blue Are You?, and I was feeling a bit stuck at the time,” Winter says. “I took a songwriting class with Phil Elverum and the task was to write a song with two sharply juxtaposed sections. The lyrics are written as if I’m observing my teenage self, watching someone go through her parents divorce, and reliving that feeling of my reality shattering. This song is a release of that pain I felt.”
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SHABASON, KRGOVICH & SAGE – “GLORIA”
Saxophonist and Destroyer collaborator Joseph Shabason and Mount Eerie collaborator Nicholas Krgovich, who teamed on 2020’s Philadelphia and 2023’s At Scaramouche, have announced a new album that teams them with ambient artist Matthew Sage. “After connecting with Nick and Jos through DMs since 2020, it felt like a fun experience awaited us as potential collaborators,” Sage says. “I had built my barn studio, and I think it looked appealing to them to make an adventure out of coming to the Wild West to make music with me.” Lead track “Gloria” is gorgeous stuff.
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JULIAN LAGE – “76” & “AS IT WERE”
Guitar great Julian Lage has announced a new album, Speak to Me, which will be out March 1 via Blue Note. It was produced by Joe Henry and features his trio collaborators Jorge Roeder (bass) and Dave King (drums), as well keyboardists Kris Davis and Patrick Warren, and Joe’s son, Levon Henry, on woodwinds. Check out two songs now.
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ASTREL K (ULRIKA SPACEK’S RHYS EDWARDS) – “DARKNESS AT NOON”
Ulrika Spacek frontman Rhys Edwards will release his second solo album as Astrel K, titled Foreign Department, on March 8. This is the lovely first single.
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SAM EVIAN – “WILD DAYS”
Sam Evian’s new album Plunge features contributions from Adrianne Lenker, Palehound’s El Kempner, and more and will be out March 22.
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ADRIANNE LENKER – “SADNESS AS A GIFT”
Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker announced her first solo album since 2020 and shared a gorgeous new single from it, which you can read more about here.
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TALK SHOW – “RED/WHITE”
London band Talk Show (not to be confused with the ’90s Stone Temple Pilots offshoot) will release their debut album, Effigy, on February 16 via Missing Piece Records. They made it with producer Remi Kabaka Jr., who worked on Yard Act’s upcoming album, and it’s titled for an imagined club the album is centered around.
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STRUNG OUT – “CAGES”
California metallic skate punks Strung Out have announced their 10th album, Dead Rebellion, and you can read about lead single “Cages” here.
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VIAL – “FALLING SHORT”
Minneapolis indie-pop-punks VIAL have announced new album burnout, and you can read about new single “falling short” here.
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GULFER – “TOO SLOW”
Montreal emo band Gulfer have announced a new album, Third Wind, due 2/28 via Topshelf, and you can read about “Too Slow” here.
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CARPOOL – “OPEN CONTAINER BLUES”
Rochester emo-punks Carpool have shared the second single from their anticipated SideOneDummy debut My Life In Subtitles, and you can read about it here. We also just launched an exclusive, limited-to-100 clear vinyl variant.
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BOECKNER (WOLF PARADE) – “LOSE”
Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner (also of Handsome Furs, Operators, and Divine Fits) has announced his debut album as Boeckner, and you can read about lead single “Lose” here.
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