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.
LIBRARY CARD – “OUT OF CONTEXT”
Dutch quartet Library Card make angular guitar pop and just released this catch new single. They say: “’Out of Context’ delivers a snarky comment against corporate life and late stage capitalism – with dystopian office life as its backdrop it highlights the absurdity of an unachievable work ethic and the glorification of the grind.”
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SPENCER KRUG – “BERSERKER MODE”
“Musically I love playing this one,” Spencer Krug says of “Berserker Mode,” the latest single off his new solo album Same Fangs. “I love the groove. The shapes and patterns on the piano are incredibly pleasing to play, in terms of movement, ergonomics, and tactility. And it’s a fun one to sing.”
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GUIDED BY VOICES – “WHEN YOU’RE MY CLOWN”
Here’s another indie rock earworm from Guided by Voices upcoming album Crawlspace Of The Pantheon.
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SUNDAYCLUB – “CAMERA SHY”
Winnipeg-based band sundayclub announced their self-titled debut album, due out July 10 via Paper Bag Records. The lead single is shimmery dream pop track “Camera Shy.” “A huge part of what we do requires us to frequently be seen and to have a lot of our lives documented, either in photos or videos, whether we’re feeling up to it or not,” Courtney Carmichael says. “It can get really overwhelming and all-consuming when so much of your energy is put into your physical looks, especially when you just don’t feel like being in the spotlight or having that kind of attention on you.”
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A.A. WILLIAMS – “POISON”
A.A. Williams’ new album Solstice is out on June 5 via RPM, and she’s given us another preview with “Poison,” which she says is “a song of learning not to fear freedom. Restraints slowly melt away, you push yourself, you long for more. Recklessness begins to consume reason, limitations are forgotten, euphoria and self-sabotage look like one and the same. Desperate to satisfy the craving you torch everything you’ve built. As the old world crumbles, and you rise, unafraid.”
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ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI (DIRTY FENCES) – “SIDEWINDER” & “MOTHER”
Alex Zhang Hungtai of Dirty Fences has announced new album Orion/Mother which is out June 19 via American Dreams and you can listen to two songs from it. “Both tracks share a common theme,” Alex says. “An exploration of the primordial state within the unconscious that leads to a confrontation with what is unspoken and hidden. The symbolism is neither negative nor positive, but a guide that snakes its way across the terrain of the mind.”
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JOHANNA SAMUELS – “TWO PEOPLE, THE MOON”
“I felt at the time like I was in a deprivation tank for longer than anyone should be,” Johanna Samuels says of writing her new single “Two People, The Moon.” “The first line was the whole premise of the song. I was thinking about how in movies there’s that common writing device where two people are separated, but that they’re both under the same moon and are looking up at the same time. It connects them in a way, bound by the light… I often toggle between loving and believing in that image but then losing hope and feeling permanently separate from others.” She adds, “I’ve felt very alone when I tour too much in one year, which I often have to do for financial reasons. The combination of the distance between people in everyday life and touring’s ever-repeating distance from everyday life, makes alienated feelings tolerable or at least rainchecked.”
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SMERZ – “SPRING SUMMER”
Norwegian duo Smerz have announced a new EP, Easy, which will be out May 15 via Escho. They say: “At the tail end of finishing Big city life last year, we made the song ‘Easy’ and from there went off on a tangent. Many of Big city life’s songs are rooted in specific stories, this Easy EP presented itself in a more open-ended process—almost like a daily journal. It began as a snapshot of a moment, one that was about to become our spring last year, and was finished moving into spring of 2026.”
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AJA MONET – “MELTING CLOCKS” (FT. MICK JENKINS & VIC MENSA)
aja monet’s new album The Color of Rain is out next month, and she’s given us another preview with “Melting Clocks,” which features Mick Jenkins and Vic Mensa. “So much of our lives is dictated to us by the construction of a man-made clock,” she says. “We ration parcels of our lives away and negotiate our values based on what we give time to. ‘melting clocks’ is a time-travel art piece. A song to question our relationship to time and practice presence.”
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LOWERTOWN – “WORST FRIEND”
Lowertown’s new album Ugly Duckling Union arrives next month, and they’ve shared another early taste, “Worst Friend.” “This song was written with our folk inspirations at heart, June and Johnny Cash, Dylan and Baez, trading verses about reaching the point where a lack of self awareness of one’s shortcomings and accountability for one’s mistakes can lead to pushing everyone away and your inevitable downfall,” they say. “Self sabotage, inner darkness and aimlessness are common themes on Ugly Duckling Union.”
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MORN – “THE STANDARD MODEL”
Welsh band MORN have a new single out via Dan Carey’s Speedy Wunderground. “‘The Standard Model’ has been with us since the birth of our band,” says singer/guitarist Robert Ribba. “It gives unrelenting guitar madness with abrasive vocals — a commentary on a widely hated character who, at the peak of the track, turns to dust. Perhaps running away, disappearing without a trace, never held accountable. Although it hits hard, it’s our least serious, most purely fun and ecstatic song. We built it by stitching two catchy riffs together, and our live performance really grew around it. Both tracks were captured live in Dan Carey’s studio in Streatham, the energy bouncing off the walls of this small room with all of us crammed inside.”
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BIG|BRAVE – “IN GRIEF OR IN HOPE”
BIG|BRAVE’s new album in grief or in hope arrives on June 12 via Thrill Jockey, and they’ve shared the heavy, distorted title track.
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KOYO – “YOU HATE ME”
We’re a couple weeks away from the release of Koyo’s sophomore album, Barely Here, and they’ve shared another single, the hooky “You Hate Me.”
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ED O’BRIEN – “INCANTATIONS”
Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien will release new solo album Blue Morpho on May 22 and he’s just shared a new single from it. “Incantations” starts off folky but soon lifts off to outer space.
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IAN SWEET – “CRIMINAL KISSING”
Ian Sweet announced a new album, Shiverstruck, due out July 24 via Polyvinyl. The lead single is “Criminal Kissing,” which she says is “a love letter to making bad decisions. Like hooking up with your ex even though you’ll be left emotionally unraveling and picking up the pieces afterwards. Sometimes you just have to lean into the chaos spiral and see where it leads you.”
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ASHER WHITE – “NIGHTINGALE VERSION (SAILOR’S MOON)”
Asher White has shared her first new music since her 2025 album 8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living. About “Nightingale Version (Sailor’s Moon),” she says, “Written in 2019 my sophomore year of college and originally appearing on that year’s In The Quarry. sort of embarrassing “young” lyrics but an honest and undeniable melody. very meaningful song to me that i feared losing to time and wanted to dust off; the drums, vocals, and guitar are updated performances but i could not capture or recreate the idiosyncracies of the original piano and organ takes, which were recorded in a cavernous old church room on the RISD campus that someone had dragged an old Hammond organ and rickety upright piano into.”
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HORSEGIIRL – “EARTH IS TURNING”
Here’s the latest single from horsegiirL’s debut album.
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LENNY KAYE – “GOIN’ LOCAL”
“I feel like I’m a new artist,” says Patti Smith guitarist and producer Lenny Kaye on announcing his first-ever solo album. “I think this album will surprise those who think they know me from what I’ve done previously.”
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PUBLIC OPINION – “BALLOON MAN RUNNING”
Public Opinion announced their sophomore album, The Cure of Public Opinion, and shared the opening track, which you can read more about here.
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THE TUBS – “FADE TO BLACK” (METALLICA COVER)
”We thought it’d be fun to jangle up ’Fade To Black’ and give it a sort of folk rock reinvented outro to announce the signing,” says The Tubs’ Owen Williams. This Metallica cover is their first release for Merge Records.
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