28 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.

FEVER RAY – ‘NOW’S THE ONLY TIME I KNOW’ (THERAPY SESSION)

Fever Ray has announced The Year Of The Radical Romantics, a new live album recorded in the studio after their There’s No Place I’d Rather Be Tour. Here’s that version of “Now’s The Only Time I Know” that was originally on Fever Ray’s 2009 self-titled debut.

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DANNY L HARLE – “STARLIGHT” FT. PINKPANTHERESS

“‘Starlight’ reaches for a kind of euphoric melancholy – a guiding light in all of my music,” Danny L Harle says of his new PinkPantheress collab, his first new solo music since 2021’s Harlecore. “It’s shaped by my love of the melancholic songwriting traditions of Europe from composers like Monteverdi and John Dowland, all the way to 90s Eurodance and the uplifting trance of the 2000s – artists like Gigi D’Agostino and Alice Deejay. Pinkpantheress is the dream collaborator for this song, her love for ornamental melodies and hypnotic lyricism fit perfectly into my sound world.” It’s his first single for XL.

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SAINT ETIENNE X DAVID PENN – “7 WAYS TO LOVE”

“7 Ways To Love” is a dancepop hit from 1991 that was credited to Cola Boy but was actually Saint Etienne under a pseudomyn. The original version with Sarah Cracknell on vocals wasn’t able to be released at the time due to contractual issues so they got former Wham! backup singer Janey Lee Grace for lead vocals instead. Now the original version has finally been released.

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INDIGO DE SOUZA – “BE LIKE THE WATER”

Indigo De Souza’s new album Precipice is out later this month, and she’s given us another preview with “Be Like the Water.” “‘Be like the water’ is about being brave and protecting your energy,” she says. “It’s about listening to your inner self and respecting your gut instinct. My favorite lyric in the song is ‘you can leave if you want to, and you don’t have to say why.’ Whether it’s leaving the room, leaving the conversation, or leaving a toxic relationship, you have the power to make a change and life is too precious to waste your spirit.”

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HAND HABITS – “JASMINE BLOSSOMS” & “DEAD RAT”

Hand Habits has shared two more songs from upcoming album Blue Reminder: the dreamy “Jasmine Blossoms,” and the folky/jazzy “Dead Rat.”

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MARISSA NADLER – “HATCHET MAN”

Marissa Nadler’s tenth album, New Radiations, is out next month, and the second single is the haunting “Hatchet Man.” “‘Hatchet Man’ is about a sinister character bringing a woman home—not for romance, but to murder her—while the narrator, his partner, is made to witness it unfold,” she says. “Ultimately, the storyteller escapes, adrenaline flooding her veins. The sweet, lilting melody of the chorus offers a stark contrast to the verses, where much of the tale is told. I enjoy twisting narratives, subverting tropes, and playing with perspective in my songs. The rest of the details are all in the song.”

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GOOGLE EARTH (JOHN VANDERSLICE & JAMES RIOTTO) – “MEOW MEOW”

John Vanderslice and James Riotto are back with their second album as Google Earth, titled for Mac OS X 10.11 and out August 29. “I think Jamie and I are better now at the typical Google Earth process of starting with nothing and ending with something but who knows how that translates in the end,” says Vanderslice. “GE seems to be good at confounding us, I still find the journey to be difficult and unsettling. It’s easier when you’re just writing a song with a verse/chorus.”

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LA DISPUTE – “SELF-PORTRAIT BACKWARDS,” “THE FIELD,” “SIBLING FISTFIGHT AT MOM’S FIFTIETH / THE UN-SOUND,” “LANDLORD CALLS THE SHERIFF IN,” “STEVE”

La Dispute have unveiled the third act of their highly anticipated first album in six years, No One Was Driving The Car. Jordan Dreyer says:

the next act encompasses in more focused detail the narrator’s look backwards down the path, beginning at their shared home in the present day, where the dissociation introduced in act one as almost entirely a self-inclosed thing trickles outward and troubles the comfort outlined in the last section of the song preceding it. he examines his own life through imagined self-portraits, in various sequences of time (fractions of days first, then weeks, months, years), and through multiple specific events. from there, four critically influential events from his earlier life are detailed in four songs:

first, a story from his early teenage years, where he and his brother—up north hunting with their father in the area where he and his own brother (the boys’ uncle, who has long lived far away elsewhere), and their father (who died when they were young)—stumble upon what they believe to be an abandoned paramilitary compound. in the middle of the field beside it they come to a hole dug in the ground full of deer carcasses. the narrator becomes fixated on the bodies below, unable to break his gaze from them, while the brother continues on toward the compound, a metaphor both for their diverging paths and for the obsessions/explanations that motivated them to take which ones they did.

the second song happens a few years later, at their mother’s fiftieth birthday party, where several siblings—drunk and airing internal grievances—fight on the basement staircase while their mother contemplates what role her own actions as a parent played in their arrival at that moment and in the conflicted history that led up to it. in the second half of the song, the siblings are gathered at the parents’ house again, years after the fight, for a quarterly group birthday celebration for several of their own children.

the third song occurs years on from there, with a pitch made to the partner of the narrator—working through undergrad at the time—from purveyors of a multi-level marketing company central to the history of grand rapids, and in some ways inextricably entwined with the christian reformed church mentioned earlier on the record (somewhat importantly, the rapture is invoked at the very end of the song, in a section discussing extraordinary wealth).

the final song centers around the friend whose funeral appeared earlier in act two, and is presented as reflections of their shared experiences together in youth, chiefly a snowy night drifting in a car together across an empty church parking lot, and the crash that occurred when the car spun on ice to slide sidelong into a curb and embankment. the end of the song harkens back heavily to the second section of act two (the song “Environmental Catastrophe Film”) and represents a full-circle consideration of the control dictated to him via exposure to calvinist teachings in childhood.

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SEX WEEK – “LONE WOLF”

Brooklyn dreampop duo Sex Week will release the Upper Mezzaine EP on August 1 and you can get a taste now with the dreamy, rhythm-forward “Lone Wolf.”

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ROSALI – “SLOW PAIN (SOLO)”

Rosali announced Slow Pain: Live and Solo from Drop of Sun, featuring stripped-down solo performances of songs from her fantastic 2024 album Bite Down, due out August 1 via Merge. The first single is the title track.

Slow Pain: Live and Solo from Drop of Sun by Rosali

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LUCRECIA DALT – “CAES” FT. CAMILLE MANDOKI

“Musically, I wanted to hint at a slowed-down and diluted dembow, but with a melodic energy that felt ancient,” says Lucrecia Dalt of the new single from upcoming album A Danger to Ourselves. “It features my dear friend Camille. She has a unique voice that is rare to hear nowadays. I love it when female voices carry a certain depth, and they don’t spend too much time in the upper, breathy register. Poetically, it’s an amalgamation of various references; it examines the legacy of one’s life through the lens of tragedy. Ana Mendieta and Evelyn McHale were specific figures, in my mind.”

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OPEN MIKE EAGLE – “MY CO-WORKER CLARK KENT’S SECRET BLACK BOX”

Open Mike Eagle’s anticipated new album Neighborhood Gods Unlimited is out this Friday, and he’s given us a final preview with “my co-worker clark kent’s secret black box.”

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ZAC FARRO (PARAMORE) – “1”

Paramore’s Zac Farro has given us another taste of his new solo album, Operator, which arrives next week, with the funky “1.” “‘1’ is a song about someone being completely and utterly unique,” he says. “One of one, no carbon copy. When you’re truly yourself it inspires others to be more themselves.”

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WEAKENED FRIENDS – “TOUGH LUCK (BLEED ME OUT)”

Portland, Maine band Weakened Friends announced a new album, Feels Like Hell, due out October 10 via Don Giovanni, and shared a new single, “Tough Luck (Bleed Me Out).” “After years of bouncing between underpaid, dead-end part-time jobs and being treated like a cog in a machine, we channeled that frustration into a rallying cry against toxic capitalism,” they say. “It’s both a personal exorcism and a collective anthem for anyone who’s ever felt burned out, used up, and still told to be grateful for the privilege. It’s a reminder that there’s power in stepping back, speaking out, and saying no to a system that was never built to care about us in the first place.”

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PUZZLED PANTHER – “FITS OF SERENITY”

Puzzled Panther (Victoria Espinoza, Kay Bontempo, Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Brian Chase) release their new EP Fits of Serenity later this month, and the latest single is the title track, which is inspired by Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner.”

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NODEGA (BODEGA) – “QUANTIFY”

Bodega are releasing a new album under the pseudonym NODEGA next week which finds them dabbling in hardcore while still keeping on their lyrical path of exploring out tech-addled world.

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NEKO CASE – “WRECK”

Neko Case announced her eighth album, Neon Grey Midnight Green, and shared the first single, which you can read more about here.

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HOT CHIP – “DEVOTION”

Hot Chip have announced a Best Of comp and as is required there’s a new song on it along with the hits. It’s good!

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GEESE – “TAXES”

Geese’s third album, Getting Killed, arrives in September, and the lead single is “Taxes,” which you can read more about here.

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SHAME – “QUIET LIFE”

Shame add a little twang to the new single from upcoming album Cutthroat.

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MICHAEL HURLEY – “FAVA”

Michael Hurley had completed a new album just weeks before he died on April 1. It’ll be out September 12 and this is the first single.

Broken Homes and Gardens by Michael Hurley

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SATURDAYS AT YOUR PLACE – “WASTE AWAY”

Kalamazoo, Michigan emo band Saturdays At Your Place have announced a new album, These Things Happen, and you can read more about the album and lead single “Waste Away” here.

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MAXO KREAM – “CRACC AT 15” (prod. TYLER, THE CREATOR)

It’s pretty much always magic when Maxo Kream and Tyler, the Creator team up (“Big Persona,” “Cracc Era”), so it’s exciting that they’ve done it again.

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