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.

ALLISON RUSSELL – “SUPERLOVER” (ft. ANNIE LENNOX)

Canadian singer/songwriter Allison Russell has teamed up with the Eurythmics’ Annie Lennox for a new protest song, “Superlover,” which mentions Israel, Palestine, Sudan, Congo, and Haiti. “Thank you to all who choose communication, coalition, hope and harm reduction over violence, abuse, despair and destruction,” Allison says. “This song is a prayer. This song is a protection spell. This song is a plea. This song is a belief. This song is a question.”

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PERFUME GENIUS – “CLEAN HEART”

Ahead of the release of his anticipated new album Glory on Friday, Perfume Genius has shared a final advance single, the soaring, gorgeous “Clean Heart.”

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CMAT – “RUNNING/PLANNING”

Irish artist Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson has announced her new CMAT album, titled EURO-COUNTRY, which will be out August 29. The first single “Running/Planning” which she says: “‘Running/Planning’ is about having to chase your own tail to be good enough to exist. It’s an abstracted view of societal pressure on women – specifically through a relationship lens: You start dating someone, you get engaged, you get married, you have kids etc etc etc… everything has to follow this linear pattern. (That’s the reason for the repetitive chorus!). And the minute you don’t follow that path, your mam starts giving out to you. That narrow path that everyone is supposed to be on… the minute you get outside of that, it gets incredibly stressful. And I don’t know anyone who is like, ‘Yeah, love this!”

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JAHNAH CAMILLE – “WHAT DO YOU DO?”

Birmingham singer/songwriter Jahnah Camille announced a new EP, My sunny oath!, due out on June 13 via Winspear. The lead single is “what do you do?,” and she says, “I wrote this while trying to understand the feeling of losing control. I was paralyzed by a need to control how other people saw me and needed to write about it.”

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DOWSING – “GET GROUNDED” & CAMP TRASH – “GO BILLS”

Chicago emo revival vets Dowsing and Florida power-posters Camp Trash are releasing a split EP on April 4 via Storm Chasers Ltd, and you can get a taste by hearing one revved-up song from each band now.

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SAMIA – “HOLE IN A FRAME” & “PANTS”

Samia has unveiled two more tracks off her new album Bloodless, “Hole in a Frame” and “Pants.” “I paired these tracks because they capture opposite instincts,” she says. “‘Hole in a Frame’ is about a fascination with disappearing and the power of absence. ‘Pants’ is about accepting a non-refundable self, social contexts and all. They move from a comfort in the possibilities of emptiness to the reality of existence.”

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DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE – “GRIEF”

Divide and Dissolve’s new album Insatiable arrives April 18 via Bella Union, and here’s a brief taste with the 86-second ambient track “Grief” that is their first song ever to feature vocals.

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HORSE JUMPER OF LOVE – “THE IDIOT” & “THE CAR KNOWS THE WAY”

Horse Jumper of Love have shared two previously unheard b-sides from their 2024 album Disaster Trick, “The Idiot” and “The Car Knows The Way.” “‘he Idiot’ was initially inspired by Prince Myshkin from the Dostoevsky book,” vocalist and guitarist Dimitri Giannopoulos says. “In the beginning of the book he was gone for a few years at a clinic in Switzerland and is on his way to Saint Petersburg only to get thrown into all kinds of drama. I liked the idea of ‘stumbling’ back into a whole lotta shit. The song is about stumbling back into your ‘real’ life after tapping out for some time. When you’re in a mentally unavailable state and then you get your shit together, you expect people to have waited for you and to be available themselves when you’re ‘back.’ The first time in your life it happens to you and you realize people have not waited can be hard to face. ‘The Car Knows the Way’ is about letting the car bring you to where you need to go.”

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SELF ESTEEM – “IF NOT NOW, IT’S SOON”

Here’s another songs from Self Esteem’s forthcoming album A Complicated Woman. This one features actress Julie Hesmondalgh. “Personally, you have to wait and one day you’ll get somewhere less painful,” Rebecca Lucy Taylor says. “But the world will hopefully get somewhere less painful too. It’s about hope, perseverance and patience!”

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HARMONY – “WHERE STRANGERS GO”

“‘Where Strangers Go’ is about the infinitely changing nature of life and trying to make peace with it,” Harmony says of her twinkly new single. It follows her debut solo album, last year’s Gossip.

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CINDYTALK – “IT’S LUXURY”

Cult Scottish indie/goth artist Cindytalk is reissuing her 1984 debut album Camouflage Heart on May 23 via Dais. The record has been remastered and you can listen to the polished-up version of opener “It’s Luxury.”

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FOXWARREN (ANDY SHAUF) – “LISTEN2ME”

Andy Shauf’s band Foxwarren have announced new album 2 which will be out May 30 via ANTI-. With it’s rickety piano backing first single “Listen2Me” could almost be from the pre-rock era.

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PROLAPSE – “ON THE QUARTER DAYS”

English indie rock vets Prolapse are back with this ripper of a new single. Say the band: “In the very olden days, the nearest you could get to nothing was to pay a peppercorn rent – a nominal sum. This was a symbolic act which was often paid on the quarter days – 4 days a year when you could sign a binding contract without giving anything away.”

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GOLD DUST – “AN EARLY TRANSLATION OF A LATER WORK” FT J MASCIS

Did you know J Mascis plays sitar? Well he does, on this track at least. It’s the first single from Easthampton, MA’s upcoming album In the Shade of the Living Light that’s out May 16.

In the Shade of the Living Light by Gold Dust

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THE BLUE KNOTS – “BIKE BY”

The Blue Knots is the new project of Danielle Stech-Homsy (fka Rio En Medio) and will release debut album Becoming Noise on April 25. First single “Bike By” has a bit of a Broadcast vibe.

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MODEL/ACTRIZ – “DOVES”

Model/Actriz have shared a new single from their anticipated second album, Pirouette. “Doves” could almost be a ballad with singer Cole Haden’s soaring vocals, but it’s filtered through the band’s tension-filled, throbbing dancefloor sound.

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SEA LEMON – “STAY”

Sea Lemon announced her debut album and shared the first single, which you can read more about here.

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SUPERCHUNK – “BRUISED LUNG”

Superchunk’s new single features backing vocals from Rosali and frontman Mac McCaughan says it’s “a song about being disoriented and sleepless and not being able to explain why. Like a hangover but not from drinking. (You look normal on the outside.) Rosali came into the studio to add some woozy shredding and great harmonies.”

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LAURA JANE GRACE IN THE TRAUMA TROPES – “MINE ME MINE”

Laura Jane Grace shared a propulsive new punk song off her new In The Trauma Tropes album, which you can read more about here.

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EMMA GOLDMAN – “I SEEM TO BE AN ADJECTIVE”

Vancouver screamo band Emma Goldman’s debut album All You Are Is We comes out in April via Zegema Beach Records and here’s the third and final single. Read more about it here.

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THIS IS LORELEI – “DANCING IN THE CLUB” (MJ LENDERMAN VERSION)

This is Lorelei and MJ Lenderman teamed up for a new version of “Dancing in the Club” from This is Lorelei’s fantastic 2024 album Box for Buddy, Box for Star. It’s from the new deluxe version of that album, which you can read more about here.

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XIAO – “WRONG”

“Wrong” is the latest taste of Swedish hardcore/powerviolence band Xiao’s debut album Control and you can read about it here.

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PUP – “GET DUMBER” (ft. JEFF ROSENSTOCK)

Toronto punks PUP and their old friend Jeff Rosenstock have teamed up once again, this time for PUP’s new single “Get Dumber” and also for a co-headlining tour in late summer/early fall. Read more here.

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