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.
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “STOP TALKING”
Motion City Soundtrack have put out their first new single in years and it finds their quirky emo power pop sounding as great as ever.
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BEAR MCCREARY – “THE LAST BALLAD OF DAMROD” FT. MESHUGGAH’S JENS KIDMAN
“When I first glimpsed Damrod, the murderous troll in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season Two, I knew immediately I had to call Jens Kidman,” composer Bear McCreary says. “The aggressive frontman of Meshuggah, Jens put a searing brand on ‘The Last Ballad of Damrod’ with his blistering vocal performance. I am exhilarated to team up with Roadrunner Records, home to some of my favorite bands of all time like Gojira and Slipknot, to bring our song to the world. My collaboration with Jens, alongside virtuoso drummer Gene Hoglan, on ‘The Last Ballad of Damrod,’ offers an introduction to my exploration of the darker recesses of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium and sets the stage for the rest of the sweeping score to come.”
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HEEMS – “RAKHI” (ft. PAVVAN & AJJI)
Heems has shared the third single from his second album of 2024, VEENA LP, and it finds Heems and longtime collaborators / fellow Queens natives Pavvan and Ajji taking on a sinister beat from Evergreen Univerze aka Karan Dhillon.
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MERCURY REV – “A BIRD OF NO ADDRESS”
Mercury Rev’s anticipated first album in nine years, Born Horses, is out next month, and they’ve shared another track from it, “A Bird of No Address.” The band’s Grasshopper says, “As Rebecca Solnit (poet laureate of hope) writes, ‘The grounds for hope are in the shadows, in the people who are inventing the world while no one looks, who themselves don’t know yet whether they will have any effect.’ For all the birds of no address: Fly on!”
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CURSIVE – “IMPOSTURING”
Cursive have shared another single off their upcoming 10th album (and first for Run For Cover), Devourer, and it comes with a video directed by Tim Kasher himself. Tim says, “The overall conceit of ‘Imposturing’ is, ‘make it up as you go along,’ so I concocted a story of a monster seemingly made up from the insecurities of this main singer guy (me). Once fully formed, the monster goes on a rampage.”
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CUMGIRL8 – “KARMA POLICE”
No, it’s not a Radiohead cover, it’s the lead single off cumgirl8’s debut album, The 8th Cumming, due out on October 4 via 4AD.
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COMMON SAGE – “RITUALS”
Common Sage have just released theri new EP Nostos | Algos via Equal Vision, and it features their recent collaborations with Thursday’s Geoff Rickly and Steve Pedulla and Further Seems Forever’s Jason Gleason, as well as one previously unreleased song, “Rituals.” It’s a dark, moody emo song with some Devil and God vibes.
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CECILE BELIEVE – TENDER THE SPARK
Cecile Believe’s new EP, Tender the Spark, is out today via Sega Bodega’s ambient tweets label. “Most of it I wrote over the course of 2021-2022 when I was feeling deeply vulnerable as a musician and person,” she says. “I felt this need to protect a little life force inside myself ~ a spark ~ to keep it safe. I was searching for resilience and hope and seeking to be fortified by difficulty. To BE tender is to be soft and subtle but to MAKE something tender you got to beat it up. And so we let life shape us. I’m so happy to share these songs which my most intimate and honest yet. Thank you always for listening.”
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ADORIOR – “SCAVENGERS OF VENGEANCE”
Blackened speed metallers Adorior will release new LP Bleed on My Teeth on September 27 via Dark Descent, and here’s the vicious lead single.
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KELLY LEE OWENS – “SUNSHINE”
Kelly Lee Owens’ fourth album, Dreamstate, is out in October, and we’re getting another preview of it with effervescent house track “Sunshine.”
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OFF! – “OBLIVION”
Before they call it quits for good, Keith Morris’ punk supergroup OFF! have shared a bonus track from Free LSD, and it’s a classic OFF! ripper.
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BERTHOLD CITY – “X-RAY EYES”
Berthold City (the band fronted by Strife’s Andrew Kline) have shared a new ripper off their upcoming third LP and you can read about it here.
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LEON BRIDGES – “PEACEFUL PLACE”
Leon Bridges announced his first new album in three years, and shared the lead single, which you can read more about here.
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