34 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.

THE SMILE – “DON’T GET ME STARTED” (JAMES HOLDEN REMIX) & “INSTANT PSALM” (ROBERT STILLMAN REMIX)

The Smile have handed over two of their songs to longtime collaborators to remix. “Don’t Get Me Started” has been remixed by James Holden, who opened for Thom Yorke’s Atoms for Peace, while “Instant Palm” has been reworked by Robert Stillman who has opened for The Smile and played on their records. These will be released as a double-A-side 12″ on March 28.

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PERFUME GENIUS – “NO FRONT TEETH” FT. ALDOUS HARDING

Perfume Genius’ new album Glory arrives next month, and he’s given us another preview with “No Front Teeth,” which features Aldous Harding. Mike Hadraes calls it “The best thing we’ve ever made.”

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SNAPPED ANKLES – “PAY THE RENT”

Snapped Ankles have shared the second single from their upcoming album Hard Times Furious Dancing. They say: “This forest is getting so expensive / The price of wood is going through the trees.”

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MAIA FRIEDMAN – “NEW FLOWERS”

Maia Friedman announced a new album, Goodbye Long Winter Shadow, due out on May 9 via Last Gang. She’s also shared a new single, the lush “New Flowers,” which she says is “about love lost, and the inevitable process of losing oneself and finding oneself again. I enlisted my dear friend Hannah Cohen to sing harmonies, and the closing guitarmony solo was dueled out by Maddy Baltor and I, side by side. It was joyful to say the least. We knew this one needed drums so we called in the legendary Kenny Wollesen and he got it on the first take. I love how Oliver Hill interpreted my demo into this beautiful arrangement for woodwinds and strings.”

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NINA (BAR ITALIA) – “TILL THE DEVIL GETS BORED”

Bar Italia’s Nina Cristante has released a solo single, “Till the devil gets bored,” that’s pretty different than what she does in the band. This is more in torch song / cabaret land than angular post-punk.

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FUST – “MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE”

“It’s a song championing the power of the underling, the dispossessed wage worker, the Dollar General shopper in a backroad food desert, the uninsured,” Fust’s Aaron Dowdy says of “Mountain Language,” “And it’s a dream of the future, about a language of friendship speakable only in less dominating times.” It’s from their new album Big Ugly.

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THE KVB – “BLACK IS BLACK” (LOS BRAVOS COVER)

UK darkwave band The KVB have shared their cover of Los Bravos’ 1966 hit “Black is Black” which is from new compilation Gothic Valentines.

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CANDENCE WEAPON & DAN ONLY – “UNGIRTHED” (PURITY RING COVER)

Cadence Weapon and Dan Only put their spin on Purity Ring’s “Ungirthed” for Last Gang Records’ continued 20th anniversary celebration. “When I was asked by Last Gang to contribute to their 20th anniversary compilation, I knew I wanted to transform ‘Ungirthed’ by Purity Ring pretty much right away,” Cadence Weapon says. “Corin and Megan are both fellow Edmontonians and I still remember the excitement I felt when they first came on the scene with that song in 2011. I wanted to channel that spirit of discovery by writing new lyrics over a new version of the beat for that song reimagined by my homie Dan Only. The resulting cover hopefully shares some of the beautiful, transfixing and beguiling DNA of the original.”

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WEATHERDAY – “TIARA”

Swedish artist Weatherday’s upcoming album Hornet Disaster is shaping up to one of this year’s best DIY emo records, and today we get another taste of it.

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SMERZ – “A THOUSAND LIES”

Smerz’s hypnotic new single “A Thousand Lies” finds them back on Copenhagen’s Escho label for the first time since the release of their 2016 EP Okey.

A thousand lies by Smerz

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MOVEMENTS – “WHERE I LAY”

Orange County emo/post-hardcore band Movements are gearing up for a North American tour with the stacked lineup of Citizen, Scowl, and Downward (and then a Europe tour with Sweet Pill), and ahead of all that, they’ve shared this new song.

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GORDI – “PERIPHERAL LOVER”

Gordi announced her third album, Like Plasticine, due out May 30 via Mushroom Music, and gave us another early taste with alt-pop bop “Peripheral Lover.” “I was thinking about the beginnings of queer relationships,” Gordi says. “I’m talking real early, like so early that at least one person is still in the closet. Accepting the available love instead of it orbiting around you. There comes a breaking point, a demand, a pleading for honesty – and the relationship either explodes into the open, or melts from the periphery away into nothing. From these thoughts, ‘Peripheral Lover’ was born. It exploded into being in about 3 hours.”

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BIG GIRL – “DIY GOD”

NYC artist Big Girl has an EP called Dye coming out on April 23, and its new single is a big, loud, catchy alt-rock song called “DIY God.”

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CHASE PETRA – “HAVE FAITH, HORATIO”

Chase Petra’s new album Lullabies for Dogs is out on March 7 via Wax Bodega, and the latest single is indie punk song “Have Faith, Horatio.” “As a kid, I was roped into the teen worship concerts and I was caught up in the, ‘well, if she’s sleeping over on a Saturday, she’s gonna have to go to church with us on the Sunday,'” vocalist Hunter Allen says. “I was told that I was going to hell, that abortion is a sin, that being gay is a sin, that God hates me and would smite me down, and on and on. What an absolute drag, am I right?”

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CURREN$Y & HARRY FRAUD – “DREAM MACHINES” (ft. PREMO RICE)

Rapper Curren$y and producer Harry Fraud have announced a collaborative project, Never Catch Us, due out next week (2/28). While you wait for the full project, here’s the slowed-down, jazzy boom bap revival of new single “Dream Machines.”

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CLUB NIGHT – “PALACE”

Bay Area emo band Club Night have announced their second album and first in six years, Joy Coming Down, due May 2 via Tiny Engines. Here’s the hard-charging lead single “Palace.”

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INDIFFERENT ENGINE – “CRASHING INTO A HILLSIDE IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT”

UK post-hardcore band Indifferent Engine have announced their debut album, Speculative Fiction, due May 30 via Church Road. If you dig the dark, towering, mid 2000s-style post-hardcore of bands like Thrice and Thursday, don’t miss this.

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HEAVENSGATE – “OBLIVION”

Australian metalcore band Heavensgate have signed to Pure Noise and their first single for the label is the crisp, heavy “Oblivion.”

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MICK JENKINS – “PUBLIX”

Chicago rapper Mick Jenkins follows up “Wars & Rumors of Wars” (Freestyle) with his second new track of 2025.

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EYES – “BETTER”

Copenhagen metallic hardcore maniacs EYES (members of LLNN) have signed to Prosthetic for their third album Spinner, due April 25. If you dig Converge and Every Time I Die, check out the 60-second fury of lead single “Better.”

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EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY – “IT’S OKAY” (ft. KASSA OVERALL)

Genre-blurring, shapeshifting UK artist Emma-Jean Thackray went in an art pop direction on recent Weirdo single “Wanna Die,” and now she taps Kassa Overall for the jazz-rap of “It’s Okay.”

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DESMADRE – “WEST COAST STORY” (Ft. ALPHA & OMEGA)

LA’s Desmadre were recently announced as one of the openers on Comeback Kid’s Wake the Dead 20th anniversary tour, and now they’ve signed to Flatspot Records. Along with the signing, they put out a new video for their 2024 single “West Coast Story,” which features their LA neighbors Alpha & Omega. The band cite metal bands like Sepultura and Slipknot as influences, alongside hardcore bands like Death Threat and Terror, and that all comes through on this ass-beating track.

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DUSTIN WONG – “ARCHANGEL MICHAEL AND THE PACIFIC”

The experimental “Archangel Michael and the Pacific” is the latest single from Dustin Wong’s new album Gloria, due out on April 1.

Gloria by Dustin Wong

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FLORIDA MAN – “DOT GOV”

Charleston post-hardcore band Florida Man have announced their first album in six years, Plastique, and they put out this great new single. Read more here.

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THE WARRIORS – “MY BLOOD”

Oxnard hardcore vets The Warriors have officially revealed details for their first album in six years, Burn Yourself Alive, and they put out new single “My Blood.” Read more here.

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MCKINLEY DIXON – “SUGAR WATER” (ft. QUELLE CHRIS & ANJIMILE)

Chicago-via-Richmond rapper McKinley Dixon has announced a new album, Magic, Alive!, and lead single “Sugar Water” is a live-band jazz-rap song featuring guest vocals from Quelle Chris and Anjimile, guitar from Sarah Tuzdin (illuminati hotties), and more. Read more here.

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JENSEN MCRAE – “PRAYING FOR YOUR DOWNFALL”

Jensen McRae announced her second album and shared a new single, which you can read more about here.

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FRIENDSHIP – “FREE ASSOCIATION”

Philly indie band Friendship have announced a new album, Caveman Wakes Up, due 5/16 via Merge, along with the release of lead single “Free Association.” Read more here.

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BRIAN D’ADDARIO (LEMON TWIGS) – “TILL THE MORNING”

The Lemon Twigs’ Brian D’Addario will rrelease his first solo album in March and this is the title track.

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MAMALARKY – “#1 BEST OF ALL TIME”

Here’s the effervescent first single from Mamalarky’s Epitaph Records debut.

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WISHY – “FLY”

Wishy announced a new EP and gave us a preview with “Fly,” which you can read more about here.

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SEXTILE – “FREAK EYES”

LA duo Sextile have shared the first single from their upcoming album yes, please.

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WORMROT – “ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS GRIND” (LIVE IN STUDIO)

Singapore grindcore greats Wormrot revealed last year that they reunited their original lineup of vocalist Arif Suhaimi, guitarist Nurrasyid “Rasyid” Juraimi, and drummer Fitri, with plans to play Maryland Deathfest, and now they’ve announced a new live-in-studio album and a lengthy US tour. The album, titled TNT, was recorded live from TNT Studios in Singapore and it features renditions of 12 tracks from throughout the band’s carer. The first one to be released is “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Grind,” originally from 2016’s Voices, and it also comes with a live-in-studio performance video. Read more here.

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