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.
EL COUSTEAU – “WORDS2LIVEBY” (ft. EARL SWEATSHIRT)
DC rapper El Cousteau is releasing a new project called Merci None Merci on November 7, and its new single and video both feature Earl Sweatshirt, whose standout verse includes the line “Free Gaza, we on the corner like Israelites.”
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THIRDFACE – “SOUR”
Nashville hardcore band Thirdface slow it down and get sludgy and noisy on the latest taste of Ministerial Cafeteria.
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PINK SIIFU – “SCREW4LIFE’! RIPJALEN’!”
Genre-bending rapper Pink Siifu is back with an immersive, six-minute new song.
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LEYA – “CORNERS”
LEYA, the duo of Marilu Donovan and Adam Markiewicz, announced a new mini-album, I Forgot Everything, due out on November 22 via NNA Tapes, and shared a new single, mesmerizing art-rock track “Corners.”
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PAN AMSTERDAM – “WHITE NINJA”
NYC rapper, trumpet player and producer Pan Amsterdam — who you might’ve heard on records by Metronomy or Lol Tolhurst+Budgie+Jacknife Lee — has signed to Heavenly Records and is working on his first album for the label. Details on that are still TBA but here’s his first release for Heavenly.
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STILL CORNERS – “THE CREEPS”
Still Corners have released a new single for Halloween and their Lynchian style fits well with the theme.
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WALLICE – “I WANT YOU YESTERDAY”
Wallice’s debut full-length album, The Jester, comes out in November, and the latest single is alt-pop track “I Want You Yesterday,” which she says is “the first song that I wrote with Mikey Freedom Hart and Marinelli as a trio. It was the beginning of something really great, and the three of us ended up doing the whole album together. This song started as a beat that reminded me of something off a Beatles record. When we first wrote it, I didn’t think we nailed the initial version of the verses, but I loved the simplicity of the chorus and I wanted something that would compliment that. We ended up doing a ‘how would [insert any artist] write this verse’ exercise, and wound up with a really fun song that I particularly like because it’s a little outside of my comfort zone.”
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MAGIC USER – “LIKE THE MOON”
Oakland band Magic User will release new album Shadow on the Door on December 14 via Dandy Boy Records. Fans of bands like Pavement or The Mantles will want to check out “Like the Moon.”
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THE ROD SQUAD – “IT’S HALLOWEEN”
Kids + Halloween + Punk = full little tune.
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LOOKING GLASS ALICE – “SEASON OF THE WITCH” (DONOVAN COVER)
There have been a lot of covers of Donovan’s “Season of the Witch” over the last 50 years — Luna’s comes to mind — but this electro-disco rendition is pretty cool.
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BEDCHAMBER / SUBSONIC EYE – BALANCING ACT SPLIT EP
Two Asian indie rock bands, Indonesia’s Bedchamber and Singapore’s Subsonic Eye, have contributed two songs each to a new split EP.
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THROBBING GRISTLE – “SCABS & SCARS”
Post-punk and industrial icons Throbbing Gristle have announced TG Berlin, a box set featuring their previously unreleased work in Berlin around a very special series of live events at the Volksbühne in 2005/2006. The box set includes the final two songs TG recorded, one of which is “Scabs & Saws.”
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PORTRAYAL OF GUILT – “…WHERE THE SUFFERING NEVER ENDS” (ANATOMY REMIX)
Portrayal of Guilt have announced that a remix album of their 2021 Christfucker LP is coming on Halloween and here’s the first single. Read more here.
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CLOAKROOM – “UNBELONGING”
Indiana shoegazers Cloakroom have signed to Closed Casket Activities, following two albums on Relapse and two on Run For Cover before that, and they confirmed that a new album is coming in 2025. Title and release date are TBA, but they did just release its first single “Unbelonging,” and it goes in a different direction than the sludgy, slow-paced fare that Cloakroom are best known for. It’s upbeat and has an overt ’80s influence, or, as the band puts it, “It’s a pop song wielding 140 bpm of optimism that can fall apart and dishearten just as quickly as it captivates – Cloakroom meets Psychedelic Furs.” Read more here.
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