12 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.

TUNDE ADEBIMPE – “GOD KNOWS”

“You’re the worst thing I ever loved,” TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe sings on “God Knows,” the spacious new single from his upcoming solo debut. “And you’re bad news but I still want to give you my love.”

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THE VOIDZ – “BLUE DEMON”

Julian Casablancas is back with a new Voidz single that feature some very extreme autotune and low-fi synthpop beats.

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WEBBED WING – “COME ON”

Webbed Wing, the group that includes Superheaven’s Taylor Madison and Jake Clarke, are back with this new single that’s got that ’90s grungy, poppy alt-rock sound down pat.

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BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD – “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”

“When I wrote ‘Happy Birthday’ I had Georgia’s song ‘Besties’ in my head,” Black Country, New Road’s Tyler Hyde says of the latest single off their new album Forever Howling. “Therefore, the structure of it is heavily influenced by it.”

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CASE OATS – “SEVENTEEN”

Chicago band Case Oats — Casey Gomez Walker (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Spencer Tweedy (drums), Max Subar (guitar, pedal steel), Scott Daniel (fiddle), and Jason Ashworth (bass) — have signed to Merge Records and released their first single for the label. “When you’re seventeen years old, everything feels like the most important thing in the world, yourself included,” Gomez Walker says. “And growing up in a small town [Eureka, Missouri], it’s even harder to see over the horizon. Every emotion feels big. This is a song about making it past that feeling.”

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SHOWER CURTAIN – “STARPOWER (COMPUTERWIFE REMIX)”

NYC band Shower Curtain are releasing a deluxe edition of words from a wishing well and it comes with a few previously unreleased songs, like this Computerwife remix on “Starpower.”

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GODCASTER – “JUDY LIVING DAYLIGHTS” (PROD. KEVIN BARNES)

Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes produced Godcaster’s poppy new single “Judy Living Daylights” which the band says is about “a holograph girl with a morphine laugh, a hazy innocent heartbreak, surgery, and pain meds.”

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SWEEPING PROMISES – “MANIC MONDAY (THE BANGLES COVER)”

Written by Prince, made famous by The Bangles and now covered by post-punk duo Sweeping Promises. Part of a 40-song LA wildfire benefit BATTLE FOR L.A.

BATTLE FOR L.A.: a see/saw benefit by Sweeping Promises

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INTENSIVE CARE & THE BODY – “MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE”

Experimental heavy duos The Body and Intensive Care are releasing their new collaborative album Was I Good Enough later this month, and they’ve given us another early taste with the noisy, caustic “Mistakes Have Been Made.”

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DUTCH INTERIOR – “BEEKEEPING”

Dutch Interior’s Shane Barton says “Beekeeping” is a “reflection on personal flaws. It cautions against maintaining stagnant relationships and serves as a reminder that doing so is more akin to an act of cruelty than a favor.” The band’s first album for Fat Possum, Moneyball, is out March 21.

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KNITTING – “NITE LITE”

Montreal’s knitting, who are in NYC this week for New Colossus, have shared a new single that’s got a real droney ’90s indie feel to it.

Nite Lite by knitting

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JEREMY BRADLEY EARL (WOODS) – “LET THE SNOW FALL”

Woods singer-guitarist Jeremy Bradley Earl has announced his solo debut, the Four Songs EP, which will be out March 21 via Woodsist. The record was produced by Sam Cohen, who also plays on it, and it features three Earl originals, including this one.

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