10 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.

EZRA COLLECTIVE & GREENTEA PENG – “HELICOPTERS”

“Helicopters, you could say, is a reaction to the lack of action or misaction we have witnessed over the last three years (but in reality, throughout my whole life) in regard to the blatant slaughtering and exploitation of our brothers and sisters around the world,” Greentea Peng says of her and Ezra Collective’s contribution to the forthcoming Warchild UK benefit comp HELP(2). “The manipulation, lies, and treachery that the powers that be rain down upon us with absolute impunity. Whilst we gather in the streets to demand our rights and the end to this evil perpetrated in our names, they hover above us in their flying machines, their helicopters, pre-empting chaos, as if we are the ones who need watching, as if we are the ones reaping havoc. From the streets, amidst my peers, gathered in their thousands, I found myself looking up and wondering.. if only you were looking in the right direction. That is how these lyrics came to be. The rest is down to my talented brethren of the Ezra Collective. Give thanks.”

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UNDERSCORES – “TELL ME (U WANT IT)”

underscores is preparing to release a third album, and while we don’t have many details about it yet, she’s given us another preview with “Tell Me (U Want It).”

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LITTLE BARRIE – “MORE BAD MILES OF ROAD”

Little Barrie, the UK trio led by Barrie Cadogan (The The, Liam Gallagher), have announced new album Gravity Freeze, which will be out May 22 via Easy Eye Sound. “‘More Bad Miles Of Road’ was written from the bass, which I was fooling around with one morning at home,” says Cadogan of the album’s first single. “I liked the idea of a bassline that sounded as if it could have been played on an upright bass rather than a bass guitar. I’m not sure I achieved it, but I liked the result. I stripped the music down for the bridge sections in the aim of making something more minimal with sparse bursts of guitar around the scratch vocal. Tony Coote put the stops and starts in on the drums which I really liked. It came together pretty fast and felt good. One of the earlier tunes written for the album.”

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PAISLEY FIELDS – “PARTY GIRL”

Brooklyn-based country artist Paisley Fields announced their first album in four years, Are U Mad At Me, due out May 1 via Don Giovanni. They’re in pop territory with the first single, “parTy girl.” “I’ve always been influenced by pop music and grew up listening to grunge,” they say. “I love country music, but this record called me to explore a new sound. I see it as an evolution, not a departure.”

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FREE THROW – “THE OUTLAW STAR”

Nashville emo band Free Throw have shared another charged-up taste of their upcoming LP Moments Before The Wind, which arrives later this month.

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KATHRYN MOHR – “COMMIT”

Kathryn Mohr’s new album Carve is out in April, and she’s shared the second single, the grungy “Commit,” one of the first songs she ever wrote on guitar. “I never thought much of it, and it never seemed to fit into a release,” she says. “Years after writing, it came to mind while I was on an aimless walk and I connected with it, felt like I understood it for the first time. So I decided to finish it and record it.”

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ANNA PRIOR (METRONOMY) – “NO MORE DRAMA” (MARY J BLIGE COVER)

Metronomy drummer Anna Prior is back with a new EP, Firefly, that’s out now and the first single is a cover of the Mary J Blige classic. “I’ve wanted to do a cover song for a long time and I just never found the right one that fit with my sound,” says Anna. “The overall tone and feeling of the original fit so well with the ‘A minor’ theme of the EP that I just couldn’t resist. It’s a song that shaped my late teenage years and I really hope I’ve done it justice and I don’t get sued”

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CRITERIA – “YOU MAKETH ME”

Criteria (featuring former Cursive guitarist Stephen Pedersen) announced their first album since 2020, SEIZE!, due out May 22 via Spartan Records. “These songs feel like alchemy under pressure — love as the undertow, empathy as survival, and seizing the moment as it seizes you,” Pedersen says, sharing the first single, “You Maketh Me.”

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GNARLS BARKLEY – “PICTURES”

It’s the first single from Gnarls Barkley’s third and final album — also their first in 18 years.

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SEPULTURA – “THE PLACE”

Sepultura announced what they say is their final EP and shared the first single, which you can read more about here.

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