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.
INTER ARMA – “CONCRETE CLIFFS”
Impossible-to-pigeonhole metal band Inter Arma get trippy on the latest taste of their long-awaited New Heaven.
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MICROWAVE – “HUPERZINE DREAMS”
Speaking of trippy, here’s the druggy album closer of Microwave’s Let’s Start Degeneracy.
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MACHINEDRUM – “ILIKEU” (ft. DUCKWRTH)
Electronic musician Machinedrum’ teams with DUCKWRTH for the electro-funk / rap hybrid “ILIKEU,” the latest taste of Machinedrum’s new album 3FOR82 (due 5/24 via Ninja Tune).
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PATRICK SHIROISHI – A SPARROW IN A SWALLOW’S NEST WITH “PALOMA” BY EMMA RUTH RUNDLE
LA musician Patrick Shiroishi will release a two-song single on April 12 via Sub Pop, with this song featuring Emma Ruth Rundle reciting an original poem called “Paloma,” backed with “The Light is Not Afraid” with Patrick on vocals.
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DOG PARTY – “BULLET IN DISGUISE”
Punk duo Dog Party have announced their seventh album, Dangerous, due May 17 via Sneak Dog Records, and lead single “Bullet In Disguise” is a catchy, swaggering, garage punk song.
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THE LOVELY EGGS – “MEMORY MAN”
UK indie-punk duo The Lovely Eggs will release new album Eggsistentialism on May 17 via Egg Records and here’s the latest single ““I wrote the lyrics and melody to ‘Memory Man’ while driving,” says the band’s Holly Ross. “It was a bit of a subconscious thought stream connected to what I’d been going through personally at the time. The original melody was slightly different to what it eventually became. It was much slower and had more of a Syd Barrett vibe. Then one day when we were in the studio, David was playing a riff and beat he had recorded but didn’t know what to do with. So, we wondered what would happen if we mixed my melody and lyrics with this kind of really relentless Kraut beat that David had created and that’s how the song came about. Once we knew it would work, we just knew we needed a big robot voice on there, so we put that on and sent it over to Dave Fridmann and he just really liked it and that was that. ‘Memory Man’ was born.”
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THE OPHELIAS – “SOFT AND TAME”
The Ophelias’ new EP Ribbon is out next month, and the latest single is “Soft and Tame,” which builds to a cathartic finish amid lush violin.
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BNNY – “SOMETHING BLUE” & “CHANGES”
Bnny, the Chicago band led by Jessica Viscius, releases One Million Love Songs next week and here are two more songs from it.
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DROP NINETEENS – “WHITE DRESS” (LANA DEL REY COVER) & “NEST”
Drop Nineteens shared two new songs today: a cover of Lana Del Rey’s “White Dress” and a song original intended for last year’s Heavy Light, “Nest.”
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ST. VINCENT – “FLEA”
The second single off St. Vincent’s new album All Born Screaming features drums from Dave Grohl and bass from Justin Meldal-Johnsen.
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DREW MCDOWALL (COIL, PSYCHIC TV) – “OUT OF STRENGTH COMES SWEETNESS”
Former Coil and Psychic TV member Drew McDowall will release a new album, A Thread, Silvered and Trembling, on May 31 via DAIS. The album was co-produced by engineer Randall Dunn in Brooklyn and continues McDowall’s exploration of the mournful solo bagpipe style called pibroch, complimented with electronics and a wide variety of orchestral instruments on this ode to “the ineffable – that which refuses to be spoken.”
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VAMPIRE WEEKEND – “MARY BOONE”
The final early taste of Vampire Weekend’s new album Only God Was Above Us is “Mary Boone,” which you can read more about here.
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ANNA TIVEL – “BLUEBIRD”
Portland, OR singer/songwriter Anna Tivel embraces sweeping, classic pop balladry on Living Thing‘s latest single, which you can read more about here.
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LORDE – “TAKE ME TO THE RIVER” (TALKING HEADS COVER)
Lorde’s take on Talking Heads’ “Take Me to the River” (originally an Al Green song that Talking Heads covered on 1978’s More Songs about Buildings and Food) is for A24’s Stop Making Sense tribute album, and you can read more about it here.
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MAXIUM LUDWIG & ANGEL OLSEN – “I CAN’T STAND IT” (THE VELVET UNDERGROUND COVER)
Angel Olsen and Maxim Ludwig teamed up for a rendition of The Velvet Underground’s “I Can’t Stand It” from upcoming Lou Reed tribute album The Power of the Heart, and you can read more about it here.
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