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.
JEN RAZAVI (THE BOMBPOPS) – “BENDER”
Jen Razavi of The Bombpops embraces some retro rock ‘n’ roll / girl group vibes on this new Will Yip-produced single.
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SUFJAN STEVENS – “A RUNNING START”
Sufjan Stevens’ new album Javelin is out this Friday, and ahead of its released he’s shared a final advance single, delicate, pastoral folk track “A Running Start.”
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LAURA VEIRS – “CREATURES OF A DAY”
Laura Veirs has shared another gorgeously intimate taste of her upcoming home-recorded album Phone Orphans.
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LO(U)SER – “IF YOU FIND ME” (ft. SUPER CASSETTE)
Chris Graue’s ska-punk project Lo(u)ser has teamed with Super Cassette for a fun new song called “If You Find Me.”
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BUTCHER BROWN – “MOVE (RIDE)” (ft. JAY PRINCE)
Jazz/hip hop group Butcher Brown’s new album Solar Music comes out this Friday (10/6), and its latest single is a funky, hypnotizing collab with rapper Jay Prince.
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NORAH JONES & MARGARET GLASPY – “GET BACK”
Margaret Glaspy appeared on Norah Jones’ podcast, “Norah Jones is Playing Along,” where they teamed up for a new version of “Get Back” from Glaspy’s new album Echo The Diamond. “Playing the song ‘Get Back’ feels like jumping into a cold river,” Glaspy says. “It’s exhilarating and a little intimidating and once I’ve started the song, I wonder what it was that I was so afraid of. The lyrics are a healthy reminder for me every night on tour to keep things in perspective and to be grateful for my beautiful and complex life.”
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THANDI NTULI WITH CARLOS NIÑO – “NOMAYOYO (INGOMA KA MKHULU)”
Thandi Ntuli and Carlos Niño will release Rainbow Revisited on November 17 via International Anthem, and this lead single is a lovely, minimal, vocal jazz piano ballad.
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BODY / NEGATIVE – “PERSIMMON”
Ambient artist body / negative will release new album everett on December 8 via Track Number Records. It features Midwife on three songs and Slowdive’s Simon Scott mastered it. The first taste is “persimmon.”
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SHABAZZ PALACES – “SCARFACE MACE” (ft. O FINESS)
Shabazz Palaces offers up another delightfully weird rap song from upcoming mini album Robed In Rareness.
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ROADSIDE GRAVES – “WE’RE NOT HERE”
Roadside Graves will release their seventh album, I Won’t Cry Alone, on November 10 via Don Giovanni. Its first single is the rustic ballad “We’re Not Here.”
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SLAUSON MALONE 1 – “HALF-LIFE”
Slauson Malone 1 (aka Jasper Marsalis) releases his debut album EXELSIOR this week via Warp and here’s one last preview. There’s a little King Krule noir vibe in “Half-Life.”
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WILD NOTHING – “DIAL TONE”
THe wistful “Dial Tone” is the most immediate of Wild Nothing’s singles from upcoming album Hold. Jangly guitars mix with vocoders nicely and the video is good, too.
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JONATHAN RADO – “EASIER”
Former Foxygen member and producer Jonathan Rado will release new solo album For Who The Bell Tolls For on December 1 via Western Vinyl. “Easier” is a tribute to Richard Swift.
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MATMOS – “INJECTION BASIC SOUND”
Matmos’ new album, Return to Archive, was made entirely from samples of non-musical albums released by Smithsonian Folkways (who are putting this out too) and “Injection Basic Sound” was created from album Science Fiction Sound Effects (1958), Vox Humana: Alfred Wolfsohn’s Experiments in the Extension of the Human Vocal Range (1956), and Speech after the Removal of the Larynx.
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MEMORY OF JANE – “SPACE JUMPS”
British/French producer/multi-instrumentalist Maïlé Doremus-Cook makes music as Memory of Jane and has just shared this new single that’s out on Blue Flowers (home of Nilufur Yanya and Westerman). “I wrote Space Jumps in my second year living in London; it’s about wanting to break out of repetitive cycles and to explore new places and feelings,” says Doremus-Cook. “It’s also about growing up and feeling alienated. I spent most of my childhood in the countryside in France and it was there that my love for music came about, but I realized how hard it would be to pursue a career doing what I love if I were to stay there. Being half English, I never felt quite at home in France, so I took a leap of faith and moved to London with my family, which enabled me to deepen my understanding of music and polish my sound. Moving to a new place had a very positive impact on me, but it didn’t remove that feeling of alienation, which I now realize is a big part of me. I will never stop moving, exploring and taking leaps of faith, because it’s in those movements that I really feel at home.”
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HARD COPY – “CHEW”
Richmond quartet Hard Copy will release 12 Shots of Nature which will be out October 20 via Feel It Records. If you like synthy post-punk this song will give you something to chew on.
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GAZELLE TWIN – “FEAR KEEPS US ALIVE”
Gazelle Twin’s Elizabeth Bernholz says fear is a “daily, constant, almost mundane common fear among women.” In regards to this single, “I have often connected this lifelong feeling to the sense of a ghostly male presence that lurks in my dreams. Women are (and always have been) constantly haunted by the potential of being harmed.” Gazelle Twin’s new album Black Dog is out October 27 via Invada.
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YOKE – “WORKING PERSON”
UK band Yoke are somewhere pitch black between post-punk and metal — or as they describe it, ““the self-indulgent joy of stupidly loud amplifiers and feedback” — and will release their self-titled debut album on October 20 via Rocket Recordings. Needless to say, “Working Person” is pretty heavy.
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GRUFF RHYS – “CELESTIAL CANDYFLOSS”
Sadness Sets Me Free is the 25th album of Gruff Rhys’ career and this is the first single.
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SLEATER-KINNEY – “HELL”
Sleater-Kinney shared the first single off their new album Little Rope, which you can read more about here.
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TORRES – “COLLECT”
Mackenzie Scott of TORRES says “Collect” is “about justice being served,” adding it’s “the rage song I’ve been trying to write for years!” New album What an enormous room is out in January.
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KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD – THEIA,” “THE SILVER CORD” & “SET”
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have detailed their new album The Silver Cord, their second album of 2023, which finds them embracing synthesizers and electronic music. Listen to the first three songs now.
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PWRUP – “CORNER / OFFICE” (ft. VOODOO GLOW SKULLS/DEATH BY STEREO MEMBERS)
Agawam, Massachusetts ska-punks PWRUP have shared a new song from upcoming album Just Devils, featuring Efrem Schulz of Voodoo Glow Skulls and Death By Stereo and JP Gericke of Death By Stereo. Read more here.
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