30 New Songs Out Today

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, show recaps, track premieres, and more all day. That includes a lot of tour announcements, a list of tonight’s NYC shows, and NY shows that just went on sale. We publish a monthly playlist of some of our favorite tracks. Here’s a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place…

TAME IMPALA – “LOST IN YESTERDAY”

Tame Impala’s highly-anticipated fourth LP The Slow Rush is out next month, and Kevin Parker’s giving us one last preview of the record before its release, which is the shuffling “Lost In Yesterday,” whose skipping rhythm recalls “The Moment” from 2015’s Currents. Lyrically, Kevin discusses feelings of facing your past demons, which pairs well with the track’s hazy, groovy instrumental.

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THE MEN – “CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD”

The Men just announced their eighth album Mercy, out February 14 via Sacred Bones, and the album’s lead single is the ’80s radio rock-inspired “Children All Over the World,” which shows the band drifting even further away from their rawer punk roots. The band describes it as “a song that could stand next to any classic rock hit but with The Men’s unique artistic savvy.”

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BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN – “THE ROVING”

The trio of Anais Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats, and Josh Kaufman unveiled another track off their upcoming self-titled debut, the reimagined traditional song “The Roving.” “These 500-year-old lyrics are so deeply applicable,” Eriic says. “‘The Roving’ could be the plot of an ’80s teen movie: ‘I had a wild summer with this awesome girl then she broke my heart!’ How incredible is it that as humans we still just want to love and have sex and feel sad and fight?” Anais continues, “everyone will recognize this story, where you detect the littlest flicker in your lover’s eye, and you know it’s the beginning of the end. We added a singalong chorus so everyone could bond about this!”

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SQUAREPUSHER – “NERVELEVERS”

Electronic producer Squarepusher is releasing his long-awaited new album Be Up A Hello on January 31, and he’s just dropped this dizzying new taste of the record, which contains the mind-racing rhythms and harsh bass leads that’s become part of his trademark sound.

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BAMBARA – “HEAT LIGHTNING”

Bambara have shared a second song from their upcoming album Stray. “Heat Lightning” is dark and smoky barn-burner featuring one of the album’s lyrical characters, Death. Frontman Reid Bateh discusses the song, and the new album, with Joe From IDLES over at The Talkhouse: “For the most part Death is doing his work in the background, or even between, other people’s stories but there are a few songs where I wanted to give him the spotlight. ‘Heat Lighting’ is the first of these songs on record. It’s an introduction to Death in his element, barreling down the highway listening to news of destruction on the radio while stuffing his face with candy.” That scenario plays out in the song’s video, too:

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ALGIERS – “WE CAN’T BE FOUND”

Algiers’ new album, There is No Year, is out next week and here’s one more preview before the whole thing is out. “We Can’t Be Found” is a soaring anthem, that works in a little dubby trip hop. It also comes with a striking video. “I always feel the most successful music videos are the ones that are reflective and convey the mood of the song to the listener over everything else,” says guitarist Lee Tesche. “In this instance, we collaborated with the artist Lloyd Benjamin, trying to frame some of his sculpture work in a more abstracted way, referencing the urban dystopian cityscapes found in the German expressionist films of the 1930s. The result aspires to be somewhere in between the unsettling work of Darius Khondji and the set design of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.”

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WOLF PARADE – “JULIA TAKE YOUR MAN HOME”

Wolf Parade are releasing their fifth album, and second post-hiatus, Thin Mind, later this month, and they’ve shared another single from it, “Julie Take Your Man Home.” It’s a synth-heavy track with vocals from Spencer Krug, who says, “I’m singing about some other, worse version of myself. It’s not actually me. I’ve never carved shapes that look like dicks into anything.”

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THE BIG MOON – “BARCELONA”

UK band The Big Moon release their new album, Walking Like We Do, is out this Friday and here’s a little appetizer in the form bright, catchy new single “Barcelona.” The band will be busy on tour in the UK with Bombay Bicycle Club this winter.

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RAFIQ BHATIA – “THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE” FT. CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT

Rafiq Bhatia is releasing a new EP, Standards Vol 1, reimagining classic tracks from Duke Ellington, Ornette Coleman, and others. The first single, a new take on Roberta Flack’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” features vocals from Cécile McLorin Salvant, and was influenced and inspired by the pair’s shared love of David Lynch and Twin Peaks.

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NADA SURF – “SO MUCH LOVE”

New Nada Surf single “So Much Love” is “a song that celebrates good will between people,” says frontman Matthew Caws. “Sometimes it can be hard to remember that it’s there. But it’s all around us. Small things add up. A little tolerance and acceptance can be built on. We’re good at love and being kind. It comes naturally to us, but so do other things. You just have to keep looking for the right way to lean, it’s worth everything.” Nada Surf’s Never Not Together is out February 7.

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CHAPTER MUSIC BUSHFIRE BENEFIT

Australian label Chapter Music has put together this “greatest hits” as a benefit towards the devastating fires that are currently ravaging their country. There are tracks from Crayon Fields, The Goon Sax, Twerps, Dick Diver, The Stevens and more. Proceeds will be split between Wildlife Victoria, Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities and Gippsland Emergency Relief Fund.

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BEACH SLANG – “STIFF”

Beach Slang’s new album The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City (which features The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson on bass) comes out on Bridge Nine this Friday (1/10), and here’s one more song ahead of the release, which finds Beach Slang going in an attitude-fueled hard rock direction.

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AJJ – “NORMALIZATION BLUES”

AJJ have shared another song off their upcoming Good Luck Everybody, and like the previous singles, it finds them taking on the sad state of the country with a sense of humor. It’s in the long tradition of blues songs, but the lyrics could only have been written today.

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MAKAYA MCCRAVEN – “WHERE DID THE NIGHT GO” (GIL SCOTT-HERON REIMAGINING)

Modern day jazz great Makaya McCraven is releasing We’re New Again, a reimagining of the late, legendary Gil Scott-Heron’s final album I’m New Here, on February 7 via XL (who also released the original album in 2010 and Jamie xx’s rework of the album in 2011). The first piece of music to be released from it is “Where Did The Night Go,” which is a much busier-sounding song than the original and features a sample from the Stephen McCraven Quartet’s ‘Silhouette of Eric.’

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EARTH ROT – “DREAD REBIRTH”

Australian blackened death metallers Earth Rot are releasing their new album Black Tides of Obscurity on March 6 via Season of Mist, and the first single is “Dread Rebirth.” The band says this song “is the opening of the void. The simultaneous unlocked and unhinging of mind, both visually and musically.”

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END IT – “HARDHEAD”

Baltimore hardcore crew End It (featuring members of Wolvesblood, Piece Keeper, and Malicious Code) are releasing their One Way Track EP on January 17 via Flatspot Records, and the first taste is “Hardhead,” a 49-second dose of classic-style hardcore that’ll take you right back to the late ’80s.

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JLIN – “I HATE BEING AN ADULT”

Jlin goes dubstep (like, the good kind) on her new single for the Adult Swim Singles Series, “I Hate Being An Adult.”

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IT LOOKS SAD – “CAR”

North Carolina indie rockers It Looks Sad go in a melancholic emo-folk direction on their new single which fans of stuff like Bright Eyes and Elliott Smith should probably check out.

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PEARS – “COMFORTABLY DUMB”

New Orleans punks PEARS are releasing a new self-titled album on March 6 via Fat Wreck Chords, and lead single “Comfortably Dumb” is a whiplash-inducing song that bounces between gnarly hardcore and snotty pop punk.

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MIDNIGHT – “FUCKING SPEED AND DARKNESS”

Midnight have unleashed another track off their upcoming album Rebirth By Blasphemy, and basically all the ingredients for this one are right there in the title.

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SUSANNE SUNDFØR – “WHEN THE LORD”

Susanne Sundfør’s has composed an original soundtrack to accompany new Norwegian documentary ‘Selvportrett’ — that’s “Self Portrait” in Norwegian — about the late Norwegian artist and photographer Lene Marie Fossen who struggled with anorexia and passed in December.

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THE WANTS – “THE MOTOR”

Brooklyn trio The Wants, which includes Bodega members Madison Velding-VanDam and Heather Elle, will release their debut album, Container, on March 13. The band make taut, danceable post-punk as you can hear on this sleek new single.

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MAGIC SWORD – “DEPTHS OF POWER”

Boise, ID’s quirky, synthy Magic Sword are back with new album Endless on March 27 via Joyful Noise. “Many are chosen, but only one has the ability to wield the power of the Magic Sword,” says the group’s keyboardist who goes by The Keeper of the Magic Sword. “As one search ends another begins. For this well of power has no bounds. It is infinite. Endless.” This instrumental synth jam, however, is five minutes and 23 seconds.

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MUSH – “REVISING MY FEE”

UK band Mush are clearly fans of early ’90s slacker indie, with a strong whiff of Pavement (and The Feelies and Parquet Courts) on this new single “Revising My Fee.” The song is from their new album 3D Routine that’s out on Valentine’s Day.

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MARIA MCKEE – “PAGE OF CUPS”

Onetime Lone Justice singer/guitarist Maria McKee will release La Vita Nuova, her first studio album in 13 years, in March. Here’s another lovely song from it…welcome back, Maria!

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ZACHERY ALLAN STARKEY – “NO SECURITY”

Songwriter-producer Zachery Allan Starkey is a regular fixture at NYC clubs and shows and you may have seen him opening for New Order on their Music Complete tour. His new album, Fear City, is out later this year — New Order’s Bernard Sumner is on two tracks — and he’s just released this clubby single.

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DESTROYER – “CUE SYNTHESIZER”

Dan Bejar says “Cue Synthesizer” is “maybe the most audacious piece of music Destroyer’s laid to tape” and the awesome video actually makes this already excellent song better.

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WIRE – “PRIMED AND READY”

Punk/post-punk icons Wire will release their new album Mind Hive on January 24 via the band’s own pinkflag label. Wire have always managed to move forward while still sounding like themselves and you can definitely hear that on this new single.

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DISQ – “DAILY ROUTINE”

Here’s the first single from Wisconsin band Disq’s first album for Saddle Creek.

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DAVID BOWIE – “THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD” (CHANGESNOWBOWIE VERSION)

It’s David Bowie’s birthday, and for the occasion, Parlophone has given an official release to the acoustic version of “The Man Who Sold the World” that he recorded during 1996’s ChangesNowBowie session.

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