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.
BETH ORTON – “THE GROUND ABOVE”
Beth Orton is back with her first new music in nearly four years. “The Ground Above” picks up where Weather Alive left off, a song that somehow manages to be raw and lush at the same time. Beth says: “Linear time has no place in music. I find myself trying to iron out my brain like a map, to show what started where, I could spend forever writing notes in the margins, notes to self, finding archaeological artifacts, layers of soil and magic, the strata of love, sorrow and joy in relation to time, all that goes into the architecture of any particular song. What has kept me alive is a feral invincibility, barrelling through life, propelled magnetically as in a flying dream that won’t allow for time to get hold of my ankles and catch up with me. Grief had me say yes to life, to embrace and taste and devour. I know life to be as pointless and as meaningful as I can make it. I wanted to write some of this into a dream, a confluence of meaning and feeling.”
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LAMBRINI GIRLS – “CULT OF CELEBRITY”
Lambrini Girls follow last year’s great Who Let the Dogs Out with “Cult of Celebrity.” ““The age old tale, of selling your soul to the devil has been fabled accounts of high society for years,” the say. “However due to recent events come to light- it turns out that the elite are very much actually, the devil incarnate, baby eating, pedos. What a fucking surprise! They had no souls to sell in the first place.”
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GREG MENDEZ – “GENTLE LOVE” & “FROG”
Here are two mores singles off Beauty Land, Greg Mendez’s first full-length album for Dead Oceans. “Gentle Love” and “Frog” are connected in a video, directed by Luke LeCount, that Mendez calls a period piece.”
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DRY CLEANING – “SLICED BY A FINGERNAIL”
Dry Cleaning who released Secret Love earlier this year are already back with a new single. “A lot of attention makes them feel sliced up,” says Florence Shaw about the song’s lyrical inspirations. “So they fantasise about being hidden inside a huge flower bud and about being anonymous in a crowd at night. The image of a brown mark from a finger nail pressed into a petal inspired some of the lyrics. I thought about peony buds not opening and then brArowning, and their tightness. The lyrics were also inspired by illustrator Jooyoung Kim’s picture book about a dog who has a long body, called ‘Welcome to My Life’.” The video is pretty rad, too.
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KNUMEARS – “UNTITLED”
Ahead of its release this Friday, Knumears gave us a final taste of their debut album, Directions, with “Untitled.”
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ARLO PARKS – “BEAMS”
Arlo Parks’ new album Ambiguous Desire is out this week and here’s one last preview. “This might be my favourite song I’ve ever written,” says Arlo.
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SEPULTURA – “BEYOND THE DREAM”
Sepultura gave us another preview of their farewell EP, The Cloud of Unknowing, “Beyond the Dream,” a collaboration with Sérgio Britto and Tony Bellotto of Titãs.
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MUNA – “BIG STICK”
The latest single from MUNA’s new album Dancing on the Wall is “Big Stick,” which is available for purchase on Bandcamp for 48 hours, with proceeds going to Pal Humanity. “‘Big Stick’ is the most overtly political song that we’ve put out,” they say. “For that reason, it felt right to use this moment and track as an opportunity to raise funds for an organization that means a lot to us, Pal Humanity. Pal Humanity is a comprehensive mutual aid organization providing communities in the north and south of Gaza with essential supplies, medical care, and a school for grades K-12.”
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LAIBACH – MUSICK (FEAT. WIYAALA)
Slovenian industrial icons Laibach will release MUSICK on May 1; the album was produced by hitmaker Richard X (Annie, Kelis, Goldfrapp) and this is the titled track. They say: “In line with Laibach´s general artistic and philosophical values, we´re aiming for the perfect union of George Orwell and Lady Gaga.”
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KNITTING – “I WANT TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING”
Montreal band knitting announced a new album, Souvenir, due out June 26 via Mint Records. About new single “I Want to Remember Everything,” frontperson Mischa Dempsey says, “‘I Want to Remember Everything’ was one of the first songs that really came together for the album. It draws inspiration from the movies, music and TV that made me feel really seen as a kid, but that maybe my friends weren’t so into. My dad had a lot of random songs and music videos on our family computer that he’d downloaded from Limewire, one of them being a fan video edit of a Linkin Park song that me and my siblings would watch on repeat. That was a big inspiration for the overall feel of this song, along with the 1996 movie Harriet the Spy. ‘I Want to Remember Everything’ is a love letter to the weirdo I was when I was a kid, and as a way to try to reconnect with the parts of myself I hid away as I was growing up.”
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1000 RABBITS – “RUBIK’S CUBE”
UK band 1000 Rabbits call this one their “James Bond Song,” adding that it “seemed to flow out of us.” It doesn’t sound like a spy theme to us, but cool song.
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MAD HONEY – “REACHING” & “MARIE’S SONG”
Oklahoma City shoegazers Mad Honey announced a new album, Bridge Over Cumberland, due out May 15 via Deathwish/Sunday Drive, and shared two singles. “‘Reaching’ was the spark that started the writing process of this record—a song that took a while to come together, and was really challenging to produce,” bassist Lennon Bramlett says. “It was the first track we wrote and the last to be finished. This really felt like a full-circle moment that’s especially personal because it’s about the band itself.” Lead vocalist Tuff Sutcliffe adds, “‘Marie’s Song’ was written during a spontaneous jam at a practice session, and as we expanded on the lyrics and more melodic ideas, it quickly grew into one of our favorites on the album. It’s a heartfelt tribute to our dear friend Marie, whose support and friendship have meant the world to us.”
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GIRLPUPPY – “I MIGHT SAY SOMETHING STUPID” (CHARLI XCX COVER)
girlpuppy celebrates a year of her sophomore album, Sweetness, with a deluxe edition, due out May 29. From it she’s shared a cover of Charli XCX’s “I might say something stupid,” which she says she decided to cover “for many reasons- 1. I love it 2. It goes along with the themes of Sweetness and 3. I thought it’d rock as a shoegaze song.”
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FUNDIDO FT EMMA DUFAUX – “GET A GRIP”
NYC’s Fundido have been throwing parties for a decade now and here they are with a new single on DFA. “Get a Grip” features Emma Dufaux on lead vocals and is a banger.
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MONOLORD – “YOU BASTARD”
Swedish stoner rockers Monolord announced their first full-length album in five years, Neverending, due out May 29 via Relapse. “This isn’t really what people would call a doom album,” vocalist nad guitarist Thomas Jäger says. “It feels like a mix of that and something new.” They’ve shared the first single, “You Bastard.”
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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – “OVERNIGHT SENSATION”
“In the early ‘70s The Raspberries were mining a style of pop music that was officially past its prime,” says John and John of TMBG. “Somehow they triumphed on their own terms. Hearing this song playing on the AM radio on the school bus every morning was a clarion call to arms. The delicious irony of TMBG singing these lyrics in 2026 has not been lost on us.” New album The World is To Dig is out May
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LA SÉCURITÉ – “SNACK CITY”
“We wrote the song when we were hungry, Montreal’s La Sécurité admit. “The segment ‘J’ai faim, j’ai faim,’ which translates to: ‘I’m hungry, I’m hungry,’ was the basis of the scat singing that remained. We had fun with food anecdotes, food-related puns, etcetera.” La Sécurité’s new album Bingo! is out June 12.
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FRIKO – “STILL AROUND”
Friko have given us another taste of their second album Something Worth Waiting For with “Still Around.” Read more about it here.
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SLIFT – “A STORM OF WINGS”
French heavy psych trio SLIFT have announced Fantasia, their second album for Sub Pop, which will be out June 5. The first single from the album is “A Storm With Wings,” a raging ripper that owes a lot to ’70s Detroit and ’90s Seattle and takes aim at corrupt politicians everywhere.
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BALMORA – “OPHELIA” FT. HOLDER’S BRIE PERCY
Balmora announced their debut album, These Graven Halls, and shared the first single, which is also their first music with new vocalist Paul Cole. Read more about it and pre-order our exclusive clear purple with yellow and white splatter vinyl variant here.
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JEFF PARKER ETA IVTET – “LIKE SWIMWEAR (PART ONE)”
Jeff Parker has announced Happy Today, his third album with his long-running ETA IVtet group, which will be out May 15 via International Anthem / Nonesuch. “2025 was a very difficult year for me and my family,” Parker says of the album. “Dealing with being displaced from the Eaton fires for eight months, and the kind of toll that instability took on my family’s mental health and general outlook, coupled with Donald Trump being back in office and basically making life miserable for everyone… There was a lot of sadness and despair. But feeling the sense of community that we created with our concert, and later hearing the recording, seeing the beautiful footage that had been shot and the photographs of such joy to be back in that space and to be making music again: It was a very happy moment. So I called the record Happy Today. It’s meant to be a statement of joy.”
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OAKWOOD – “A TANGLED MESS”
Reunited Texas emo band Oakwood will release their new album, Blurred Away, in May, and they’ve given us a preview with “A Tangled Mess,” which you can read more about here.
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