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.
REDVEIL – “SQUARE ONE”
Rising rap auteur redveil is due for a new project (his last full-length was his 2022 breakout LP learn 2 swim), and while there’s no word on that yet, we did just get this great new single. He produced it alongside Johnny May (SZA, Tyler, the Creator, Jean Dawson) and Luke Titus (Noname, Ravyn Lenae, Steve Lacy).
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FRIENDSHIP – “RESIDENT EVIL”
The latest taste of Friendship’s upcoming album Caveman Wakes Up came into existence while singer/songwriter Dan Wriggins was staying with Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman in North Carolina. He explains, “I needed somewhere to stay in the summer of ’23, and Jake and Karly let me stay at a place they had outside of Asheville while they were on tour. The only guy around was (songwriter and drummer for the Wind) Colin Miller, and I would write all day and go over to Colin’s porch at night to drink and shoot the shit. I remember coming up with the refrain, “Who’s that shithead in my living room / playing Resident Evil” and Colin telling me it was a great line. It’s a bit of a stolen valor song; the only game I’ve played in the franchise is 7, and I played it on VR. Very scary.”
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SAMIA – “CAROUSEL”
Ahead of the release of her anticipated new album Bloodless, Samia has shared a final advance single, “Carousel.” Samia calls it “a shadow of a long song – it’s about spinning your wheels, and being afraid to make someone’s life less beautiful if you’re in it.”
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CLUB NIGHT – “RABBIT”
Here’s a new track from Club Night’s anticipated Joy Coming Down.
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LAURA JANE GRACE – “ACTIVE TRAUMA”
Laura Jane Grace’s new album Adventure Club arrives in July, and the latest single is “Active Trauma.” “I played a demo of this song for the manager I was working with in 2018 and they told me it sounded like The Mountain Goats,” she writes. “I fired that manager.”
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BEN LAMAR GAY – “YOWZERS”
Ben LaMar Gay has announced a new album, Yowzers, due June 6 via International Anthem. Here’s the title track.
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FOXWARREN – “YVONNE”
Foxwarren, which features Andy Shauf, Avery and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis, release their new album, 2, on May 30 via ANTI-. The latest single is the gentle “Yvonne.” “Yvonne, the woman scanning the beach each morning for buried treasure, deserves a love song too,” the band say.
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ANTROPOCENO – “THE WAVES” (ft. PARANNOUL)
Brazilian musician Antropoceno will release Natureza Morta on May 5, and its latest single is a collaboration with the mysterious South Korean shoegaze musician Parannoul.
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BILLY IDOL – “77” FT. AVRIL LAVIGNE
Billy Idol’s new album Dream Into It is out this Friday (4/25) via Dark Horse, and ahead of that he’s shared “77,” a duet with Avril Lavigne.
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MUGSHOT – “DIE IN FEAR” / “AFORE A WAKING NIGHTMARE”
San Jose metalcore band Mugshot have announced a new album, All The Devils Are Here, due June 27 via Pure Noise. Along with the announcement comes these two ass-kicking singles.
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SAY SUE ME – “IN THIS MESS”
Say Sue Me have a new EP, Time Is Not Yours, on the way this month, due out on April 30 via Damnably. The latest sing is the towering, shoegazey “In This Mess.”
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ODDISEE – “A RARE THING”
Veteran indie rapper Oddisee announced a new EP, En Route, due May 30 via Mello Music Group. Here’s the lush-sounding lead single.
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LUSTER – “CLOSE MY EYES”
LA shoegazers Luster released one of Cloakroom vocalist Doyle Martin’s favorite singles of 2024, and now they’ve released another new single ahead of their appearance at the LA edition of Nothing’s Slide Away festival. It was mixed and mastered by Nick Bassett of Whirr, who they’ll share the stage with at Slide Away.
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PELICAN – “PINING FOR EVER”
Pelican have shared the final pre-release single from their upcoming album Flickering Resonance.
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TROPICAL FUCK STORM – “DUNNING KRUGER’S LOSER CRUISER”
Tropical Fuck Storm are extra skronky on the new single from their upcoming album Fairlyand Codex that’s out June 20.
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THE MOONLANDINGZ – “IT’S WHERE I’M FROM” FT. IGGY POP
“‘It’s Where I’m From’ was the very first song I wrote after my accident,” The Moonlandingz’s Adrian Flanagan says, referencing a bad bike wreck that broke both his arms and the band’s new single which features Iggy Pop. “I think I hit some kind of sweet spot between Johnny Cash doing ‘Hurt’ and something off Scott Walker’s ‘Scott 2’ album, the track grounds you! I got busy with other projects and the track ended up dumped in a box at the back of a cupboard for well over a decade. During the final days of The Moonlandingz album recording sessions I rediscovered the CD with pretty much an album full of these beautiful songs on them, so I brought the rough demo to The Moonlandingz session. I got my friend Oliver Harrap to put some live drums over it, Alex White put some beautiful additional sax and flute on it and I put a new guide vocal on it with the intention of getting someone else to sing it before I completely re-recorded my original demo parts with my co producer Dean Honer! My absolute first choice to sing my song was Iggy Pop. No sweaty young upstart could sing this song and make you believe it.” New album No Rocket Required is out Friday.
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KULA SHAKER – “CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE”
Britpop vets Kula Shaker are back with this funky, organ-fueled single and vampiric video.
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ANNIE-CLAUDE DESCHÊNES (DUCHESS SAYS) – “MAIN DE FER”
Duchess Days’ Annie-Claude Deschênes is back with this new solo single and it’s a real clanging techno banger.
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ANDY BELL – “HEART’S A LIAR”
“Debbie gives it this gravitas and this coquettishness, but she’s still very in command,” Andy says of his collaboration with Debbie Harry. “And she recorded her vocals in the studio on Gay Pride, which I thought when I heard it, oh, trust her!”
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THE BOUNCING SOULS – “UNITED”
The Bouncing Souls have released their first new single since 2023’s Ten Stories High, and you can read about it here.
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Looking for even more new songs? Browse the New Songs archive.