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.
GUIDED BY VOICES – “ADVANCE WITHOUT DROPPING”
Guided by Voices’ 44th album Crawlspace of the Pantheon is out May 29 and they’ve just shared another patented Bob Pollard earworm.
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COURTNEY BARNETT – “ONE THING AT A TIME”
Ahead of the release of her new album Creature of Habit this Friday, Courtney Barnett shared a final advance single, “One Thing at a Time,” featuring a three-minute guitar solo and Flea on bass.
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JOE PERNICE FT. NORMAN BLAKE OF TEENAGE FANCLUB – “I’D RATHER LOOK AWAY”
Joe Pernice’s new solo album Sunny, I Was Wrong has some cool collabs on it, perhaps none more cool than this one with Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake who sings “a wall of vocals.” Joe adds, ” I’ve said a lot in the past about how I highly I regard Norman as a musician and a person in general. I’m grateful to him for putting his mark on this song.”
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ACCESSORY – “THIS IS NOT YOUR LIFE (STATIC)”
Jason Balla of DEHD releases his debut solo album as Accessory, Dust, next month, and he’s given us another preview with “This Is Not Your Life (Static).” “I wanted to capture that feeling of that moment in love when you cease to be the central figure in your own story,” he says, adding that it’s “about vulnerability and commitment and the beauty of submission. It’s life in the service of something beyond. As the song continues it becomes less about transcendence and slides into the realm of obsessive regret, depression and the lasting grip of intimacy now past.”
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JUNGLE – “CARRY ON”
UK dance duo Jungle are back and will release new album Sunshine on August 14 via AWAL. This first single might surprise fans — it’s groovy sunshine folk featuring the clear voice of Lydia Kitto.
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BRENNAN WEDL – “SIX O’CLOCK NEWS” (KATHLEEN EDWARDS COVER FT. WAXAHATCHEE)
Brennan Wedl has signed to ANTI- and shared her first music for the label, a cover of Kathleen Edwards’ “Six O’Clock News” with Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield. “I first heard ‘Six O’Clock News’ on the Cities 97 Sampler CD around 2003,” Wedl says. “There’s no doubt that this song shaped my songwriting voice. Originally written by Kathleen Edwards, ‘Six O’Clock News’ is a story about the hysteria of gun violence in an American town. To record and sing this very contemporary story with Waxahatchee over twenty years later is a direct link to the very heart of why I play music. It’s an honor to be joining the ANTI- roster and I’m ecstatic to share what we’ve been working on.”
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NEW IDEA SOCIETY – “DANCING HORSE”
Stephen Brodsky (Cave In, Mutoid Man, etc) and Mike Law (Wild Arrows, Eulcid) announced a new album as New Idea Society, Fire On The Hill, due out May 15 via Relapse. About first single “Dancing Horse,” Law says, “Part of ‘Dancing Horse’ first appeared all the way back in 2007 and it took a lot of forms over the years that never quite worked. Then out of nowhere it arrived somehow fully re-formed and totally realized into one of my favorite songs I’ve ever been a part of. The original idea started on an August night in Budapest and was tied together one August morning in 2024 back in Massachusetts. It was one of those moments where Steve reached deep and found something that had been floating around in another universe and brought it to ours.” Brodsky adds, “I remember listening to Mike’s original demo for ‘Dancing Horse’— it was a shoegaze thing with one lyric that shone brightly through the sonic haze: ‘There’s a dancing horse on my roof.’ My fiancé had just hung a horseshoe above the front door of our home. A native Texan, she explained that a horseshoe points up to catch luck and then flips over to rain it down… suddenly, that one line from the demo spawned a whole other thing in my head. I’m grateful that Mike was receptive to me taking a brilliant seed of his imagination and going off to the races with it.”
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RACHEL LIME – “NACRÉE”
“This is a spring 2020 lockdown song I wrote about desire when I wasn’t able to fulfill it,” Rachel Lime says of “Nacrée,” the second single off her new album STORIES. “The lyrics are completely unaltered from that first iphone notes app draft and I built the song around the words, playing around with sampling my own vocals, sighs, breaths. I wanted sounds that brought to life the lyrics, the ‘long blue afternoon’ and ‘sea and milk,’ the ‘black strand’ of the seashore as evening falls. Water, and specifically the ocean, has always had such a sensual, sexual connotation for me—the salt! The grit of sand on your skin. The sun and water touching every part of you. It’s funny because I’m definitely repressed in that I struggle to take myself seriously singing a, idk, kind of sexy song, but it’s exactly this kind of boldness I wanted to bring to this album. Less lonely, intellectual pining—more risk and drama.”
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YTTLING JAZZ & BOBBY GILLESPIE – “STRANGE”
Yttling Jazz, the solo project of Peter Bjorn and John’s Bjorn Yttling, releases new album Illegal Hit (Out of Bounds) this week and here’s one of the tracks, a collab with Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie.
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PORTRAYAL OF GUILT – “OBJECT OF PAIN” & “DEATH FROM ABOVE”
Unpigeonholable heavy band Portrayal of Guilt have shared two more singles off their new album …Beginning of the End, “Object of Pain” and “Death from Above.”
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BIG HARP – “RUNS TO BLUE”
Big Harp, the duo of Chris Senseney and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney, will release their new album Runs to Blue this Friday and they’ve shared the title track. “‘Runs to Blue’ is a parent-child relationship song, although I think it could apply to other relationships as well,” says Senseney. “It can be hard to watch the painful process of growth, and to watch people wrestle with the certainty of sorrow and grief and disappointment. All you can do sometimes is love each other the best you can, even when your best doesn’t feel like enough. And that, I think, is kind of the overarching theme of the whole record. Musically, I think this one has a lot of nice melodies in the bass line, and the instrumental section foregrounds the kind of polyphonic interplay that underpins the whole record.”
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KËKHT ARÄKH – “CASTLE”
Ukranian multi-instrumentalist Dmitry Marchenko is releasing a new album as Këkht Aräkh, Morning Star, this Friday (3/27) via Sacred Bones, and he’s shared a final pre-release single, “Castle,” which he says “started from the main chorus. I wrote the first rough version of it in my apartment in Berlin in 2023. The song is about escapism, the desire to hide from a hostile reality while waiting for some kind of release, salvation, or maybe just an ending. The image of the ‘Castle’ appears here as a symbol of a certain feeling and longing that has been part of the project since the first album. Musically, the song stays within Këkht Aräkh’s usual style, with clear influences from 90s Norwegian black metal, and in some places it almost directly quotes it. The outro was inspired by Current 93, like many of my interludes and ballads. It’s a simple song, but an important one for the album, since it was written very early and helped shape the overall direction of the record. The background ambient sample was arranged by Varg²™ and SPÖKE and adds a lot to the song’s atmosphere.”
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JIM LEGXACY – “IDK IDK”
British rapper Jim Legxacy follows his 2025 mixtape Black British Music with his first new music of the year, “idk idk.”
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TORI AMOS – “SHUSH”
Tori Amos has given us another preview of her new album In Times of Dragons with “Shush,” where a fictionalized version of Tori married a “lizard demon” billionaire. “He represents what we’re dealing with right now,” she says. “He sees congressmen, senators, and even probably presidents, as people who answer to him and other billionaires, who don’t think you and I should vote. He’s trying to develop the kind of feudal system we had hundreds of years ago. But it doesn’t look like it once did. We don’t look like we’re in the trenches, in the muck. We have all the cool, digital devices now. So it looks different. But it has the same philosophy.”
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PULP – “MARRYING FOR LOVE” & “COLD CALL ON THE HOT LINE”
The Pulp reunion shows no signs of slowing.
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FRUIT BATS – “THE LANDFILL”
Eric D. Johnson announced a new Fruit Bats album and shared the title track, which you can read more about here.
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MARY IN THE JUNKYARD – “CRASH LANDING”
London band Mary in the Junkyard, who you may have seen opening for Wet Leg last year, will release their debut album, Role Model Hermit, on July 3. Here’s the first single.
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SPENCER KRUG – “TIMEBOMB”
Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug announced a new solo album and shared the first single, which you can read more about here.
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FIRE-TOOLZ – “BALAM =^..^= SAYS IPV09082024 STRAWBERRY HEAD”
The kind of glitchy, hard-to-pigeonhole music Fire-Toolz makes is perfect for Warp Records, a label that’s home to Aphex Twin and Squarepusher. In fact intense first single “Balam =^..^= Says IPv09082024 Strawberry Head” has a title Aphex Twin would approve of. New album Lavender Networks is out May 8.
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