24 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…
BUTCHER BROWN – “KING BUTCH”
Richmond group Butcher Brown blend jazz and hip hop on their hypnotic, psychedelic new single.
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ROY AYERS – “REACHING THE HIGHEST PLEASURE”
Here’s a lost track from master of good vibes Roy Ayers. As noted by Okayplayer, “Reaching the Highest Pleasure” was recorded in June 1977 and discovered among Ayers’ Virgin Ubiquity studio session tapes. “As we all know, pleasure is most rewarding when it’s shared, no matter how long it takes,” say label BBE (Barely Breaking Even),“So enjoy this previously unpublished page of musical history from the Godfather of Neo Soul himself, Mr. Roy Ayers.” This will be out via streaming services on Friday.
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SELF DEFENSE FAMILY – “MAKE ME A PALLET FIRE ON YOUR FLOOR” & “LOCAL CLERICS”
Self Defense Family continue to empty their vaults with this two-song single recorded while on tour in Australia a few years ago. Both are great examples of the band’s slow-burning experimental post-hardcore, and proceeds from this one go to COVID-19 Victorian First Nations Mutual Aid Fund. Read more about the songs here.
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PROTEST THE HERO – “FROM THE SKY”
Protest The Hero have shared a second single off their upcoming first album in seven years, and it’s another flamboyant, bombastic dose of post-hardcore that finds this band in fine form.
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WIKI – “CASH OUT” (prod. TONY SELTZER & ADRIAN LAU)
Tony Seltzer and Adrian Lau are releasing a new mixtape, Avenues, in late June, and it’ll feature this new song with Wiki that Wiki debuted in a COLORS session. With the beat switch in the mid-section, it feels like two songs in one, and Wiki sounds as great as ever.
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ELVIS PERKINS – “ANONYMOUS”
“‘Anonymous’ has followed me around for some time now, sort of shadow-like, it seems we know each other quite well and hardly at all,” says Elvis Perkins of his brand-new single. “I couldn’t say where all of its melodies came from. Out of some blue, from somewhere and/or ‘someone’ else. I feel this way a bit about Steven Sebring, who I hardly knew when I suddenly knew he was the sole soul to capture the phantasm and sprawl of the song. He is something of a white warlock (in black) it seems to me, with imagery at times liquid, solid and vapor all at once, perfect to approach and approximate form for the subject at hand. We opted out of treatments, plans and the like and just sort of walked unknowingly up to the void and said ‘hello, who and how and what are you?’ It of course only echoed the same in reply.”
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MARY LATTIMORE & PAUL SUKEENA – “DREAMING OF THE KELLY POOL”
Mary Lattimore has teamed with Paul Sukeena (Angel Olson’s touring guitarist) for this latest entry in Mexican Summer’s “Looking Glass” singles series. Harp and pedal steel are a magical, dreamy combination. Mary has the backstory: “We both lived in Philadelphia for a long time and would spend summers at the Kelly Pool in Fairmount Park, this beautiful Olympic-sized swimming pool which was open to the public but still never crowded. Now, we are next door neighbors and are in quarantine together, along with Paul’s wonderful wife Nicky. We have been reflecting on our time in both Philadelphia and Los Angeles and have been making music together, so our thoughts have been drifting to the memories of past summers not restricted, riding our bikes across a less-populated Philadelphia and feeling that kind of freedom. This song was made for that kind of summer feeling.”
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NOVELLER – “CANYONS”
Sarah Lipstate has shared a second track from her new Noveller album, Arrow, which is out June 12 via Ba Da Bing. The ambient but still melodic “Canyons” sounds like it’s soaring gracefully above said canyons. Peaceful music for stressful times.
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ENTRY – “YOUR BEST INTEREST”
Entry, the LA hardcore band fronted by Sara Gregory that also features Touche Amore’s Clayton Stevens on guitar, Sheer‘s Sean Sakamoto on bass, and drummer Chris Dwyer, will follow their 2016 EP No Relief with their debut album Detriment on July 17 via Southern Lord. The first single is “Your Best Interest” which is even rawer and nastier than No Relief.
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MIKE CRAIN (RETOX, DEAD CROSS) – “IN THIS SKIN”
Retox/Dead Cross member Mike Crain follows his recent solo EP with this creepy, brooding new song. “I’m so goddamn sick/That’s my story/That’s all,” Crain sings, referring to his recent battle with cancer and a COVID-19 diagnosis. “The past few months have been fucking surreal, to put it mildly,” he tells Revolver. “I literally just recovered from cancer treatments, recorded the new Dead Cross album, went on tour with my band Cunts supporting the Melvins, contracted COVID-19 on said tour, lost my sense of smell for what feels like an eternity now, and spent all the time in between writing and recording a slew of solo material.”
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SOCCER MOMMY – “DRIVE” (THE CARS COVER)
Soccer Mommy covered The Cars’ 1984 hit “Drive” during a February instore at Amoeba Hollywood, and she also recorded a gorgeous solo rendition of it for Sirius XMU.
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SNST (mem BRAID) – “CATASTROPHE”
SNST, the duo of Braid’s Chris Broach and his wife Sonja Rae, will release their new album It’s Hard to Be Loved By You on May 29 (pre-order), and the latest single is the danceable “Catastrophe.”
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DAÐI FREYR – ‘THINK ABOUT THINGS’ (HOT CHIP REMIX)
Icelandic artist Daði Freyr has turned his new single “Think About Things” — which was also Iceland’s official entry in the now-canceled 2020 Eurovision Song Contest and has become a bit of a Tik Tok sensation — over the fine folks in Hot Chip to remix. They’ve turned his horn-filled disco jam into something decidedly mor Hot Chip. How’d it come about? Say Hot Chip, “Sometimes a band just meets a real nice guy from Iceland on social media and they end up remixing their Eurovision tune and it all turns out great.”
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MISERY SIGNALS – “THE TEMPEST”
Metalcore vets Misery Signals have announced their first album with original vocalist Jesse Zaraska since their 2004 debut and released lead single “The Tempest.” Read more here.
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END – “FEAR FOR ME NOW”
END — the hardcore/metalcore supergoup of vocalist Brendan Murphy (Counterparts), guitarist Will Putney (of Fit For An Autopsy and producer for Knocked Loose, Vein, Every Time I Die, and tons of other cool bands), guitarist Gregory Thomas (ex-Misery Signals, ex-Shai Hulud), bassist Jay Pepito (Reign Supreme, ex-Blacklisted), and drummer Billy Rymer (ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan) — have shared another rager off their upcoming debut LP.
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NO. 2 – “YOU MIGHT BE RIGHT”
No. 2 — the band Neil Gust formed after Heatmiser broke up, alongside Gilly Ann Hanner (Calamity Jane) and Paul Pulvirenti (Atomic 61, and more recently of Eyelids) — are back with their first new song in 18 years. Read more here.
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NAEEM – “WOO WOO WOO” FT. AMANDA BLANK & MICAH JAMES
Naeem (formerly Spank Rock) has a new album, Startisha, on the way for Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon’s 37d03d’s label in June. About latest single “Woo Woo Woo,” he says, “Amanda and Micah heard the demo and demanded to be on it, the bars they added made it better than I could’ve ever imagined, and Amanda, once again, shows up everyone on the track.”
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SUNDRESSED – “HOME REMEDY”
Fans of Modern Baseball and Weezer should check out this new Sundressed single, which you can read more about here.
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CARIBOU – “NEVER COME BACK” (FOUR TET REMIX)
Four Tet remixed the addictive “Never Come Back” off Caribou’s great new album Suddenly, and you can read more about it here.
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MRS. PISS (CHELSEA WOLFE & JESS GOWRIE) – “KNELT” & “DOWNER SURROUNDED BY UPPERS”
Chelsea Wolfe and her longtime drummer Jess Gowrie (also of Horseneck) now have a new collaborative project together called Mrs. Piss, and they released two songs off their upcoming debut album. Read more here.
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SWEET SOUL – “NOISES DROWN”
California power pop-informed punks Sweet Soul will release their debut album on New Morality Zine at some point in the near future, and you can read more about lead single “Noises Drown” here.
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VINYL WILLIAMS – “SOFT SOUL”
Vinyl Williams, aka LA psych artist Lionel Williams, will release new album Azure on June 5 via Requiem Pour Un Twister. If you dig astral psych a la Dungen, this is similarly sun-dappled stuff.
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BIG BLACK DELTA – “LORD ONLY KNOWS”
Mellowdrone frontman and M83 touring member Jonathan Bates will return as Big Black Delta with new album 4 on July 10. Here’s the album’s opening cut that he describes as “it starts like Whitesnake and ends like Liberace.”
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