22 New Songs Out Today

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.

ALAN BRAUFMAN – “ANGELS”

Brooklyn jazz veteran Alan Braufman continues his recent comeback with another new album, Anthem For Peace, on May 15 via his own Valley of Search label. It was made with Luke Stewart (of Irreversible Entanglements) on bass, Chad Taylor on drums, and Patricia Brennan on vibes, and new single “Angels” strikes a great balance between glistening beauty and free jazz chaos.

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BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY – “LIFE IS SCARY HORSES”

Will Oldham says “Life is Scary Horses,” the latest single off his new album We Are Together Again, is a “spiritual cover” of Sally Timms and Jon Langford’s “Horses.” “A primary reason to cover a song comes from the unanswered questions the song poses in our individual or collective psyches,” he says, “and I have mulled ‘Horses’-generated questions over and over and over again in all sorts of circumstances until finally I thought I could bring those questions to life in a new composition, a new recording, of what can technically and essentially be called a new song.”

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RHODODENDRON – “FIRMAMENT”

Portland’s Rhododendron have signed to The Flenser for their new album, Ascent Effort, due out on May 15. They’re a hard-to-pin-down band and the first single is “Firmament,” an eight-minute heavy post-rock song that steadily, hypnotically builds to an explosive climax.

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CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD – “LOST LEADER” FT. CHRISTIAN LEE HUTSON

Charlotte Cornfield’s new album Hurts Like Hell is out later this month, and the third single is “Lost Leader,” which features Christian Lee Hutson. “This is a hard song,” she says. “But I also think it’s a little bit funny. Tragicomic maybe? It’s about a tormented frontman character whose personal demons and poor behaviour are getting the best of him. The story is told in second person but there are two perspectives represented here: the struggling artist and the disappointed fan. Christian Lee Hutson sings the part of the ‘lost leader,’ and though he only has a few lines he delivers the hell out of them.”

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ALEXIS TAYLOR FT THE AVALANCHES & ÉTIENNE DE CRÉCY – “I CAN FEEL YOUR LOVE”

“Sometimes, you can feel another’s love — you can sense it,” Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor says of the new single from his upcoming solo album, Paris in the Spring. “It can be powerful even if not expressed in words. Sometimes, love can be like being in awe of something, or someone — and this is my take on devotional music. It’s about that dialogue with the impossible, the out of reach, the thing or person that is beyond you; a spiritual connection. The music that the Avalanches sent — which was made up of gospel samples — really reached me, so it figured that my lyrics touch upon these themes. It also had this disco vibe that was really uplifting. It’s a euphoric-sounding song, I think. Additional tracking of the song’s brand new chorus idea, which I had on the streets of Paris, was done with the wonderful Étienne de Crécy at his studio.” The video was created by former Horrors keyboardist Tom Furse.

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SPRINTS – “TRICKLE DOWN”

“’Trickle Down’ is about watching systems fail in slow motion, housing crisis, rising costs, culture wars, climate collapse, and being told to stay patient,” SPRINTS say of their new single. “It’s the frustration of a generation stuck in “wait mode” while everything burns.”

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PETER GABRIEL – “WHAT LIES AHEAD”

It’s the full moon so that means another song from Peter Gabriel’s new album oi. He says: “On the Back to Front tour, along with Playing for Time, it was one of the songs that was played without words, as a work in progress. The song actually began with a melody that my son Isaac was playing with and I thought, oh, that’s really nice – I could build that into something.”

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FRIKO – “CHOO CHOO”

Friko’s second album, Something Worth Waiting For, is out next month, and they’ve given us another preview with “Choo Choo.” “I’ve always had a thing with the magic of trains, and when I was writing that song I started singing ‘choo choo’ and it made me laugh,” vocalist and guitarist Niko Kapetan says. “It always feels good to play live, with all the slowdowns and speed-ups, but it’s also a very emotional homage to the band and how they feel like home to me. There’s nothing light-hearted about trains. They have moved us for hundreds of years, and probably will for hundreds more. Heavy, chugging things that carry far more human weight than any of us could ever bear. Life reveals itself in a seat by the window, watching carousels go by.”

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POISON RUIN – “HYMN FROM THE HILLS”

Poison Ruin will release new album Hymn From the Hills on April 3 and here’s the titled track. “‘Hymn from the Hills’ is about living on the outside,” syas frontman Mac Kennedy, “by force or by choice, and what is lost and gained in the process.”

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VILLAGERRR – “LOCKET”

Mark Allen Scott has announced his “proper debut” album as villagerrr, Carousle, due out May 29 via his new label, Winspear. About new single “Locket,” he says, “Even though the song might have some sad imagery and stuff, I like to think this song is a love letter to my friends and family and band about how shit is hard but we gotta stick together. To put it bluntly.”

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THE ACTIONS – “TAKE MORE”

Bristol, UK duo The Actions have shared a new single, their first music since their 2021 debut. “After our last, more transcendent record, we felt the urge to return with something stronger and more direct,” they say. “Though it took time to get there, we knew this was the right moment to come back. ‘Take More’ is a song about growing up in the suburbs. It captures nights spent twisting your mind over the future, caught between staying with the people you love and the need to escapAe, struggling to find anything that breaks the loop.”

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THE SCYTHE – “MUTT THAT BIH” FT. 1900RUGRAT & KEY NYATA

Denzel Curry’s group with Ferg, Bktherula, TiaCorine and Key Nyata, The Scythe, have shared another track off their debut project Strictly 4 The Scythe, which arrives this Friday.

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A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS – “ACID RAIN”

A Place to Bury Strangers are releasing Rare And Deadly, a compilation of singles, b-sides, outtakes and other non-LP tracks, on April 3 and they’ve just shared this ripper. The video was shot on the J train over the Williamsburg Bridge.

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DELOYD ELZE – “QUEEN OF SPADES”

Born in Georgia and currently residing in California, singer-songwriter Deloyd Elze will release the Nellene EP this Friday via Concord. The lovely “Queen of Spades” is about his late grandmother. He says, “She had a laundry list of factoids that she collected over the years: she used to hustle people at pool at the local dive, drove a semi for a meat delivery company, worked in Vegas auditing black jack dealers, and she played a mean game of a card game called spades.”

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BASEMENT – “WIRED” & “BROKEN BY DESIGN”

The great UK post-hardcore band Basement have announced their first album in 8 years, Wired, due 5/8 via Run For Cover. Two very good new songs are out now, and you can read more about them here and pre-order our exclusive “green in green” vinyl variant.

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GREG MENDEZ – “I WANNA FEEL PRETTY”

Greg Mendez announced his first full-length album for Dead Oceans and shared the lead single, which you can read more about here.

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LORAINE JAMES – “IN A RUT” FT SYDNEY SWAN

Loraine James says her new album her “IDM popstar album,” adding, “I’m using my voice a lot more, and putting it higher in the mix than I usually would, I guess I’m growing some confidence.”

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ALDOUS HARDING – “LAST STOP”

Aldous Harding has announced her fifth studio album, Train on the Island, which will be out May 8 via 4AD. This is the first single.

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RINGO STARR – “IT’S BEEN TOO LONG”

Ringo Starr has announced a new album, Long Long Road, which will be out April 24 via UMe. Like last year’s Look Up, it’s a country album, and was produced by T Bone Burnett. It features contributions from Sheryl Crow, St. Vincent, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, and Sarah Jarosz.

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PRINCE DADDY & THE HYENA – “BIG-BOX STORE HEART”

Albany indie/emo/punk staples Prince Daddy & the Hyena have announced a new album, Hotwire Trip Switch, which reunites them with Counter Intuitive Records (after a stint on Pure Noise) and producer Joe Reinhart of Algernon Cadwallader (who produced the band’s 2016 debut LP I Thought You Didn’t Even Like Leaving). Read more about lead single “Big-Box Store Heart” here.

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BLACKBRAID – “CELESTIAL BLOODLUST”

Adirondacks-based indigenous black metal act Blackbraid is releasing an EP this Friday with two new songs and an acoustic version of a Blackbraid II track, and one of those songs is “Celestial Bloodlust,” which comes with a video filmed at one of Blackbraid’s intense live shows. Read more about it here.

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