26 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.

SAINTSENCA – “VIRIDIAN MOON” SUITE

Saintseneca’s upcoming album Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs is broken up into multiple suites, and today they’ve shared the entire five-song “Viridian Moon” suite.

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JASMINE.4.T – “I CAN’T BELIEVE I DID THIS WITHOUT YOU”

jasmine.4.t announced a deluxe edition of her debut album, this year’s You Are The Morning, due out this Friday (9/12) via Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records. It includes five new tracks, and she’s shared one of them, “I Can’t Believe I Did This Without You.”

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IRON & WINE AND BEN BRIDWELL (BAND OF HORSES) – “I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS” (FOREIGNER COVER)

We’ve been hearing more about Foreigner than we’d expect to be lately. The “I Want To Know What Love Is” hitmakers recently made headlines for asking Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce to be their wedding band, and now Iron & Wine and Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell have shared their cover of the aforementioned 1984 soft rock hit that will appear on Making Good Time, the covers EP they’re releasing this week. They turn it into a somber indie folk song, and it’s very worth hearing.

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ALEX ORANGE DRINK – “O.D. (3AM)”

Alex Orange Drink (The So So Glos) has announced four new albums, each a different genre which he’ll be releasing over the rest of the year. Future 86 is power pop, due out on October 3 via Conor Obert’s Million Stars; Good Old Days is anti-folk, due out on October 24; A Plastic Bag is punk/hardcore, due out on November 21; and Ever Cowboys Get The Cancer is country, due out on December 12. He says, “Each record embodies a different stage in response to the nightmarish health crisis I faced. Over 35 days of radiation & chemotherapy, I was lucky enough to find myself in the studio after most treatments. Keeping a creative practice took my mind away from mental anguish. Music once again saved my life. Sonically, these next releases each focus on a different genre, varying drastically in tone and theme. I was recording in full-on survival mode and it is evident in these albums.” The lead single is “O.D. (3am).”

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BAXTER DURY – “MOCKINGJAY”

Baxter Dury’s new album Allbarone is out on Friday and here’s the most cinematic song on the album that also was inspired by a film. “I was watching one of those Jennifer Lawrence Hunger Games films,” Baxter says. “It’s called Mockingjay, and it’s about a rebel, a romantic revolutionary type. And the song is applying that character-type to everyday people now. Instagram people who post their revolutionary intentions on Instagram stories, knowing that’s as far as it goes. I’m not saying people shouldn’t do that, but I can inhabit that pathetic romantic character in a song. Maybe that stops me being the person in real life.”

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GOGOL BORDELLO – “WE MEAN IT, MAN!”

Ahead of their European tour, Gogol Bordello shared their first new music since 2022. “‘We Mean It, Man!’ is like taking the inner temperature of the eternal seeker and surfer of positive vibrations,” Eugene Hütz says. “It’s someone who is bellydancing on status quo-tables and healing itself from the world’s lies and irony while reaching for rays of joyous healing unity. This is the inner temperature of Gogol Bordello.”

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JESSY LANZA – “SLAPPED BY MY LIFE”

Jessy Lanza is back with Slapped by Life EP that’s out this Friday via Hyperdub. Here’s the title track. “I wrote ‘Slapped By My Life’ while my husband Winston was going through chemotherapy,” Jessy reveals. “The treatment cycle was relentless and he spent most of the time bedridden, so while he slept I wrote this song for him. It’s been challenging to find the space to be creative since cancer came into our lives, but I knew this song would make Winston smile and that was motivation enough. Collaborating with Pearson Sound made this track exciting too because listening to his music has always been a serotonin rush. When I wrote ‘Slapped By My Life’ I was desperate to feel something other than sadness, to escape my mind and live inside the music, even for a few minutes.”

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SNUGGLE – “CARSICK”

Copanhagen duo snuggle release their debut full-length album, Goodbyehouse, this Friday (9/9) via escho. Ahead of that they’ve shared “Carsick,” a dreamy indie rock track.

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HILARY WOODS – “ENDGAMES”

Hilary Woods has announced a new album, Night CRIÚ, due October 31 via Sacred Bones. The first single is the haunting, nightmarish, bare-bones folk song “Endgames.”

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HAAI – “STITCHES”

London-via-Australia producer and songwriter HAAi’s new album HUMANiSE is out next month, and she’s shared “Stitches,” which she calls “a naive love letter to yourself, your lover and your friends. The people who evoke the strongest feelings in you and who make you feel the most human.”

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MASK – “HERESY”

Salt Lake City hardcore punks Mask will release their debut LP Aggressive Contempt on October 3 via Convulse Records, and the first single is the vicious, blackened album opener “Heresy.”

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JAY SOM – “WHAT YOU NEED”

Jay Som’a anticipated new album is out next month, and the latest single is “What You NEed,” which was inspired by a Peter Bjorn and John song. “Joao [Gonzalez] created and sent me the basic skeleton for ‘What You Need’ a couple hours before the fires in LA started,” Melina Duterte says. “I remember feeling immediately drawn to it, but the uncertainty and danger we were about to face crept up, pulling our focus elsewhere. We eventually revisited the demo a month later, after witnessing how the people of LA came together in its darkest moments — it felt necessary and only right to create this song with friends.”

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GLEAN – “SEDIMENT” & “RECEIVE YOU” (ft. ANXIOUS’ SAM ALLEN)

San Diego’s Glean have just signed to Sunday Drive Records and announced a new EP, Worlds Apart, due out on October 3. Two songs are out now, including one featuring Anxious bassist (and G.I. Bill vocalist) Sam Allen, and if you like Anxious (or Title Fight or other melodic hardcore bands in that realm) you might like Glean too.

Worlds Apart by Glean

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HINDS – “GIRL, SO CONFUSING FT. LORDE” (CHARLI XCX & LORDE COVER)

“Everything about this song resonates with us,” Hinds say. “We have been a girl band for four albums now, more than a decade. A decade in a world that tries to put girls against each other, comparing everything, our bodies, our songs, our way of talking and existing. Making it almost impossible to not feel threatened and constantly insecure. When this song and the feature with Lorde was released, it made history for music and for women. This is our take on it.”

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AILBHE REDDY – “ALIGN”

Dublin singer/songwriter Ailbhe Reddy has shared a synthy-yet-folky new single via Don Giovanni.

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WODE – “UNDER LANTERNLIGHT”

UK black metallers Wode are releasing their fourth album Uncrossing the Keys on October 3 via 20 Buck Spin, and if you like your black metal with very catchy riffs (à la Tribulation), you should check out “Under Lanternlight.”

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GURRIERS – ERASURE

Irish band Gurries announced their first-ever North American tour and will the news is also this new track they made with Pelle Gunnerfeldt (The Hives, Viagra Boys). The band say, “Erasure is a chaotic mash of genres, an unwavering cry into the void in the face of imperialism and tyranny”.

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HOME FRONT – “LIGHT SLEEPER”

Edmonton, Alberta’s Home Front are back and have just announced new album Watch It Die which will be out November 14 via La Vida Es Un Mus Discos. This shouty anthem is the album’s first single.

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RHETT MILLER – “ALL FOR YOU”

“My buddy Jesse Valenzuela brought me the idea for the song, a guitar hook and a lyric hook, so he had done the trickiest part,” Rhett Miller says of this one. “When I was fleshing out the lyrics, I imagined that it would be a song for Jesse’s album rather than something I’d be recording. Ironically, this level of remove gave me permission to get a little more personal and sensitive than I might otherwise have done. As soon as it was finished, I loved the song and knew that someday I would record it. And it tickles me that I finally got to work with my super-talented friend Jesse.” Rhett’s new album A lifetime of riding by night is out October 10.

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CONSTANT SMILES – “Allowed To Be”

The video for “Allowed to Be” features many of the guests on his album, Moonflowers, including Leya, Long Beard, Shahzad Ismaily, Bambara, Mallory Hawk, Ann Messner, Slowspin, Katie von Schleicher and skater Bobby Puleo

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SESSA – “VALE A PENA”

Sessa, aka São Paulo-based artist Sergio Sayeg, will release new album, Pequena Vertigem de Amor, on November 7 via Mexican Summer. “Vale a Pena” is nicely chill in a tropical sort of way.

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JULIANA HATFIELD – “SCRATCHERS”

The first single from Juliana Hatfield’s Lightning Might Strike, and where it gets its title, is this song about luck and fate and hope. It’s also about buying scratch-off instant lottery tickets.

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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS – “ARMIES OF THE LORD” FT LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

The Mountain Goats have announced a new album, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, that will be out November 7 via their own Cadmean Dawn Records. It’s described as a “full-on musical” and features contributions from The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson, harpist Mikaela Davis, and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. Did you have all those on your MG Bingo Card?

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TORTOISE – “LAYERED PRESENCE”

Tortoise have announced Touch, their first album in nine years, which will be out October 24 on physical formats and streaming on November 11 via International Anthem / Nonesuch. Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire, and Jeff Parker made the album across three cities where members now call home (Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago) and features contributions from Marta Sofia Honer, Skip VonKuske, and Tucker Martine.

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SPEED – “PEACE”

Australian hardcore band Speed have announced a new three-song EP, All My Angels, and the first taste is the powerful, instantly-satisfying new song “Peace.” Read more about it here.

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AFI – “HOLY VISIONS”

AFI have shared the second taste of Silver Bleeds the Black Sun, and so far both singles find the band putting their punk/post-hardcore side on the backburner and leaning fully into their love of ’80s goth rock. Read more here.

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