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.
AMEN DUNES – “ROUND THE WORLD”
“Round the World” is the nine-minute centerpiece to Amen Dunes’ upcoming album Death Jokes. The track features samples of Coil, Bill Monroe, and others and comes with an equally ambitious video.
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GOAT GIRL – “MOTORWAY”
London band Goat Girl have come a long way from their swaggering folk-rock beginnings, with upcoming album Below the Waste finding them transformed by synthesizers. You can hear that on this new single that comes with a striking video by Holly Blakey.
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MALLORY HAWK – “ALL YOUR TROUBLES” & “RUN UNTIL THEY CATCH YOU”
Mallory Hawk, who plays in Trace Mountains and fronted Customer, has released her debut solo singles, “All Your Troubles” And “Run Until They Catch You.” “I wrote ‘All Your Troubles’ after a brief visit home to North Carolina,” she says. “I was staying in my childhood bedroom surrounded by my old tchotchkes and started trimming my bangs with a dull pair of child scissors I used all throughout grade school. I lit a candle and the nostalgia of my past felt all-consuming. I stayed up all night writing the song, veering between intensity and catharsis while confronting my guarded feelings about family tragedy.”
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O. – “176”
London sax-n-drums duo O. have shared another song from their upcoming debut album that’s due out June 21 via Speedy Wunderground. The band say it was written “in tribute to the 176 night bus and the unpredictable journeys on board. Always a banger live, we feel like we’ve captured that heavy energy on record with some help from Dan Carey’s distortion machines.”
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AMY O – “EARLY DAYS”
Bloomington, Indiana singer-songwriter Amy O’s new album, Mirror, Reflect, is due out on May 10 via Winspear, and the latest single is “Early Days,” which she says is “processing my experience in the first year after my daughter was born. I experienced postpartum depression and anxiety and it was also the start of the pandemic. Altogether it was a really hard time. I wrote it a few years later, when my daughter was a toddler, after talking to a friend who was about to give birth. The conversation helped me reflect on how far I’d come.”
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GIFT – “WISH ME AWAY”
Brooklyn band Gift have signed with Captured Tracks, a label that seems well-suited to their swirling sound that owes more than a little to British alt-rock of the ’80s (Cure, New Order, Bunnymen). “Wish Me Away” is their first single for the label and presumably a (nice) first taste of their second album. This video is very well produced.
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MADI DIAZ & LENNON STELLA – “ONE LESS QUESTION”
Madi Diaz follows this year’s Weird Faith with a new collaborative single that she wrote with Lennon Stella and Kate York. It’s about “how real love doesn’t make you wonder,” Diaz says, continuing, “How it feels when you know in your whole body that this person is in your life to stay. It’s unconditional. It’s trust. It’s true. It’s just one less question you have to answer because that person IS an answer. What a beautiful thing to get to experience that feeling. I’m beyond honored that Lennon let me record my version of this song, and the very idea that she said yes when I asked her to be a part of it couldn’t be more of a dream come true. I’m honored to have her be a part of this story and I’m honored to be a small part of hers. This song simply wouldn’t exist if we hadn’t found one another.”
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BIG LAUGH – “PRECURSOR”
Having released their great debut LP Consume Me on Revelation Records last year, Milwaukee hardcore band Big Laugh have now signed to Convulse Records and contributed this new song to the Milwaukee Style Vol. 2 comp.
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TERRE ROCHE – “FISH OUT OF WATER”
The Roches’ Terre Roche announced a new solo album, her first since 2015. Innter Adult is due out on May 17, and she says the songs are “about all the things that float around in my mind, and probably in yours too! Since my years with The Roches, when I was usually the top harmony, my voice has gotten lower, deeper, and more expressive. It tells me how to sing, rather than me browbeating it to stay soaring around in the sky.” The first single is “Fish Out of Water.”
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TERMINAL NATION – “MERCHANTS OF BLOODSHED” (ft. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE’S JESSE LEACH)
There are some cool guests on death metal/hardcore band Terminal Nation’s upcoming LP Echoes Of The Devil’s Den, and now the song with Killswitch Engage vocalist Jesse Leach is here.
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TASHI WADA & JULIA HOLTER – “GRAND TRINE”
Experimental musician Tashi Wada announced a new album, What Is Not Strange?, due out on June 7 via RVNG Intl. The new single, “Grand Trine,” features his partner Julia Holter, and he calls it “a centerpiece of the album.”
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ULCERATE – “TO FLOW THROUGH ASHEN HEARTS”
Experimental death metal masters Ulcerate unleash another taste of their anticipated Cutting the Throat of God.
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DEHD – “ALIEN”
“This is about me being otherworldly, an artist of light, an angel, an alien or maybe some sort of faerie creature and wanting to find someone like me in this world, someone of my kind,” Dehd’s Emily Kempf says of the band’s new single. “Longing for this special person that’s as special as me to come around for me to love, but instead always coming to the same conclusion that I am fated to be a sort of loner hermit person with 1000 friends and that loving myself is the most important and rewarding thing I can consistently work on and do forever.” Dehd’s fifth album, Poetry, is out May 10.
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THE BUG AND KMRU – “DIFFER”
Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug) and Joseph Kamaru (KMRU) have joined forces for new album Disconnect which will be out June 14. “Differ” mixes dub and power electronics into what is both loud and ambient.
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ALAN BRAUFMAN – “BROOKLYN”
New York jazz legend Alan Braufman has shared a second single from his upcoming album Infinite Love Infinite Tears. “I’d just watched some friends play at a lively Block Party in Bed Stuy, and it was a nice summer evening, so I just started walking,” says Braufman of Brooklyn” which features saxophonist James Brandon Lewis. “I always have music running through my head, and somehow the music I’d just heard influenced a new song. By the time I got home to where I was staying in Clinton Hill, ‘Brooklyn’ was in my head, fully formed.”
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EARTH TONGUE – “GRAVE PRESSURE”
New Zealand duo Earth Tongue will release new album Great Haunting on June 14 via In the Red and this is the ripper of a new single. “If this song was a movie, the protagonist would be trapped in a torturous space between life and death,” says singer/guitarist Gussie Larkin of the song’s music video. “It’s totally schlocky, and we wanted a video to match that.”
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ALAN VEGA – “MERCY”
Suicide co-founder Alan Vega’s vault of unreleased material continues to be excavated, and new posthumous album Insurrection will be out May 31. “Mercy” rattles with industrial percussion.
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BETH GIBBONS (PORTISHEAD) – “REACHING OUT”
Another stunner from Beth Gibbons’ upcoming solo debut.
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THE FELICE BROTHERS – “CRIME SCENE QUEEN”
The Felice Brothers shared the first single off their new album, Valley of Abandoned Songs, which Conor Oberst is releasing on his new Million Stars label. Read more about it here.
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LAME DRIVERS – “BECOME AN ISLAND”
NYC band Lame Drivers are back and have announced their second album (and first in nine years), Become an Island. Here’s the title track.
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BJORK & ROSALÍA – “ORAL” (OLOF DREIJER REMIX)
The Knife’s Olof Dreijer said he “had a lot of fun making this remix” of Rosalía and Bjork’s 2023 collaboration.
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THOU – “I FEEL NOTHING WHEN YOU CRY”
Thou have announced a new album, Umbilical, and you can read about its lead single here.
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SOUR WIDOWS – “CHERISH”
Bay Area folky indie rock trio Sour Widows have announced their debut album Revival of a Friend and you can read about new single “Cherish” here.
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