So many artists, 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.
PETER DOHERTY & FRÉDÉRIC LO - "THE EPIDEMIOLOGIST"
Libertines co-founder Pete Doherty and collaborator Frédéric Lo will release new album The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime on March 18 and this is the sweeping new single. "The Epidemiologist" is swimming in strings. Nice song.
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PUSHA T & NIGO - "HEAR ME CLEARLY" (PROD: KANYE WEST)
Nigo has shared his Pusha T collab "Hear Me Clearly" from his upcoming album I Know Nigo that also features A$AP Rocky, Kid Cudi and more. The track was produced by Kanye West with ThaMyind, Luca Starz, and BoogzDaBeast
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JOEY BADA$$ - "HEAD HIGH"
"This is one of the best, purest, realest tracks I’ve ever made and I’m fulfilled to finally share it with the world,” Joey Bada$$ said of his new single "Head High," which was produced by Statik Selektah. “This one is for Nip, X, Pop and every young black man who’s life was taken away way too soon. This is for everyone who has to navigate life daily with their head on a swivel.”
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SIMON LOVE - “ME AND YOU”
London indiepop artist Simon Love will release new album Love Sex And Death Etc on April 8 via Tapete. "Apart from COVID-19 and all the death and hand-washing, it was surprisingly the easiest album I think I've ever made," Simon says. "We were laser focussed when it came to do these songs and it shows." Check out the rather charming first single.
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SAY SUE ME - "GEORGE & JANICE"
After announcing a spring North American tour supporting it, South Korean quartet Say Sue Me have officially announced their third album, The Last Thing Left, due out May 13 via Damnably. They've also shared a new single, the buoyant indie pop track "George & Janice."
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MADI DIAZ - "FOREVER (NEW FEELINGS VERSION)" FT. ANGEL OLSEN
Madi Diaz's new EP Same History, New Feelings, a companion to her excellent 2021 album History of a Feeling, is out today, including this gorgeous new collaborative version of "Forever," where Angel Olsen and Madi duet.
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RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - "POSTER CHILD"
Say what you will about the mellow-groovin' new Chili Peppers song -- which kinda sounds like Reunion's 1974 novelty hit "Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" -- the hand-drawn animated video for "Poster Child" is pretty cool. New album Unlimited Love, their first with John Frusciante in ages, is out April 1.
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TINASHE - "HMU FOR A GOOD TIME" FT. CHANNEL TRES
Tinashe just released the deluxe edition of last year's great 333, including an awesome collaboration with Channel Tres that finds the two artists churning out house-inflected R&B.
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TED LEO - "PING PONG" (STEREOLAB COVER)
For Bandcamp Friday, Ted Leo released the Andy, Come Out, that features two remixed rarities from the last few years and a cool solo cover of Stereolab classic single "Ping Pong."
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IAN NOE - "BURNING DOWN THE PRAIRIE"
Ian Noe's new album River Fools & Mountain Saints is out in a couple weeks and here's another low-key, lovely track from it.
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PAUL WALL & TERMANOLOGY - "RECOGNIZE MY CAR"
Houston rapper Paul Wall is back with an old-school ode to driving slow and being seen. The great Pete Rock produced. Their collaborative album, Start 2 Finish, is out April 8
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POPCAAN - "SKELETON CARTIER"
Jamaican dancehall great Popcaan dropped the first single from his new album Great Is He, which will also feature in Drake's Nike x NOCTA shoe release campaign. "This song is about how I was feeling after I ordered myself a Skeleton Cartier watch for my birthday," he says. "This was possible because I put in the work. The aim is always to be richer — in more ways than one!"
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A BOOGIE WIT DA HOODIE - "HIT DIFFERENT (FT. B-LOVEE)"
A Boogie again teams with B-Lovee for this new track that features a video inspired by Guy Ritchie film Snatch.
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BRUSH - "CAT"
Brush (ex-Chumped/Adult Dude) are releasing their debut LP, Cabeza, on April 8, and they've shared the lead single, a delightful, twangy ode to our furry friends of the feline persuasion.
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FLYING RACCOON SUIT - AFTERTHOUGHT (EP STREAM)
Flying Raccoon Suit released Afterglow, which we named one of the best punk albums of the year, in 2021, and they've followed it with a new EP for Bandcamp Friday. "This EP includes some re-imaginings of our songs," they write. "In the last couple of years where we haven't played live as much, we've performed some of these versions in livestreams, acoustically, as guitars accompanied by drum machines and posted to social media, and all sorts of different ways. Check them out on our previous albums to hear the original versions, but these are some electronic, folk, and other re-workings we've had fun playing with and working on these last couple years."
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MESHUGGAH - "LIGHT THE SHORTENING FUSE"
Swedish metal vets Meshuggah are releasing their first album since 2016, Immutable, next month via Atomic Fire Records (pre-order on orange/red opaque vinyl), and they've shared the second single, the unrelentingly heavy "Light the Shortening Fuse."
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RAMESH - "VALENTINO"
Ramesh is pretty far removed from his old band Voxtrot's jangly sound on his glitchy new single "Valentine" that has him screaming through the chorus. "The song is a stream-of-consciousness meditation on my many experiences in gay clubs -- and in clubs in general -- balancing the impulses of hedonism and the longing for deeper connection," says Ramesh. His new album Eternal Spring is out next week.
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COLD GAWD - "MOVING TO CALIFORNIA IN MARCH"
California shoegazers Cold Gawd have signed with Dais Record and have just released their first song with the label. The band say "Moving to California in March" is "about the anxious feeling that is making— what you think is— the biggest next step of your life."
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PAINTED SHIELD (mem PEARL JAM) - "LIFE IN REWIND"
Painted Shield is the supergroup of Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard, former Pearl Jam drummer (and prolific session musician) Matt Chamberlain, singer/songwriter Mason Jennings, and soul/blues singer Brittany Davis, and their new album Painted Shield 2 comes out April 22 via Loosgroove Records (the label Stone Gossard co-runs). The new single is the soaring, bluesy ballad "Life In Rewind."
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SAVAK - "EMPATHY" / "RECANTED (FREE THE SINGER)"
SAVAK have shared two more songs from their upcoming album Human Error /Human Delight. They say: "There's definitely a zabuton cushion for you at our chabudai if you're the type who likes a little Murmur in your Chairs Missing." Chances are if you know what that means you'll like it too.
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KUBLAI KHAN TX - "LOYAL TO NONE"
Texas metalcore band Kublai Khan TX have a new EP, Lowest Form of Animal, on the way, and the latest single is "Loyal to None." "'Loyal to None' is loyal to no one," the band's Matthew Honeycutt says. "When trust comes with tragedy and loyalty leads to heavy losses. We are once again blueprinting our interpretation of Texas chaos. To those who remain loyal, walk the world. To those you don't, die a thousand deaths."
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BKTHERULA - "KEEP DA K" & "COUPE"
Rising Atlanta rapper Bktherula dropped a pair of new tracks, "Keep Da K" and "Coupe." "These songs are memories of being young and careless,” she told REVOLT. "I wanted the visuals to be really raw and vulnerable and reminiscent of being a kid.”
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JOEY FATTS - "BRIGHT LIGHTS" (ft. ALLYN)
Long Beach rapper Joey Fatts has announced a new album, QUICCSAND, due March 18. It has songs featuring Blxst and Allyn, the latter of whom sings the soaring hook on new single "Bright Lights."
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PLACEBO - "HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN THE SKY"
"'Happy Birthday In The Sky' for me, is one of the more heartbreaking moments on the album," says Placebo's Brian Molko. "Happy Birthday In The Sky is a phrase that I've been using for quite some time. When I say, happy birthday to people who aren't with us anymore, it communicates the kind of heartbreak that we're really, really good at communicating I think. You know that sense of loss, that sense of desperation. It's as if a part of your body and your soul has been ripped from you unfairly. And you pine and you pine, and you wait." Placebo's new album Never Let Me Go is out March 25.
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BDRMM - "PORT" (APTBS REMIX)
UK shoegaze band bdrmm are releasing the Port EP featuring six remixes of the title track by Daniel Avery, Working Men's Club, WH Lung, “It’s a pure attack of brute force for the senses,” says bdrmm singer and guitarist Ryan Smith of A Place to Bury Strangers' remix. “I wouldn’t have expected anything less from these guys. It sounds incredible.”
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KURT VILE - "HEAR LIKE A CHILD"
Kurt‘s new album, (watch my moves), is out April 15 via Verve Records and this is the pleasantly amblin' second single.
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SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - "OF NO FIXED IDENTITY"
“Of No Fixed Identity“ was SFA‘s first-ever recording, from the days when actor Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Spiderman: No Way Home) was the band's lead singer. The band say there are other lost songs from their archives being excavated.
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MICK TROUBLE - "ME AND THE RIDDLE TREE"
Mick Trouble, the very British-sounding post-punk singer-songwriter who may or may not be Jed Smith of NYC's My Teenage Stride and Jeanines, is back with his second record. It’s Mick Trouble’s Second Album is loaded with even more wonderful earworm janglepop in the Television Personalities / Swell Maps / Jilted John tradition.
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OTOBOKE BEAVER - "I AM NOT MATERNAL"
Japanese punks Otoboke Beaver's new album ‘Super Champon‘ will be out May 6. This is the first single.
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AMENRA - "ROADS" (PORTISHEAD COVER)
Belgian post-metallers AMENRA have shared a cover of Portishead's classic "Roads" for Bandcamp Friday. It's a delicate, spare, acoustic rendition -- just guitar and voice.
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SOUL GLO - "DRIPONOMICS" FT. MOTHER MARYROSE
Genre-defying Philly hardcore band Soul Glo's new single "Driponomics" is a straight-up rap song, which you can read more about here. It's from their anticipated new album Diaspora Problems (pre-order on limited edition blue and red splatter vinyl).
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EICHLERS - "99 RESOLUTIONZ" FT. TAPE GIRL
The latest single from hyperska artist Eichlers' new album My Checkered Future (pre-order on limited edition electric blue vinyl) is the vocoder-heavy "99 Resolutionz," featuring Tape Girl.
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