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photo by Dana Distortion

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.

COURTING – “ROLLBACK FREESTYLE” (ft. RXK NEPHEW)

UK indie rock band Courting teamed up with the unpigeonholable rapper RXK Nephew for an under-two-minute industrial noise-rap song. Who saw this coming?!

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FLORENCE + THE MACHINE – “ONE OF THE GREATS”

Florence + The Machine’s anticipated new album Everybody Scream is out on Halloween, and she’s given us a second preview with “One of the Greats.” She says:

I don’t really know how to explain myself with this one, it was sort of a long poem about the cost of greatness. Who gets to decide what that is? Why do I even want it? Why am I never satisfied?

I feel like I die a little bit every time I make a record, and kind of literally nearly died on the last tour. Yet I always dig myself up to try again, always trying to please that one person who doesn’t like it, or finally feel like I made something perfect and I can rest.

Early in my career, I was consistently ridiculed and derided for the bigness of my expression. I was thrust into the spotlight but also told again and again I didn’t deserve it, or that because it wasn’t to their taste it wasn’t good. So maybe this is a 15-year outpouring of frustration. But also, a lot of the lines I just left in because I thought they were funny.

Me and Bowen from IDLES wrote it in one take. He played the guitar and I just sang it straight from the page. We meant to re-record it but the first take just had this amazing energy.

Then Aaron Dessner helped us take it to a truly transcendent place. I wanted it to feel like you were disintegrating into nothing at the end. Which is sometimes what the creative process feels to me. Death and resurrection over and over.

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CHAT PILE & HAYDEN PEDIGO – “DEMON TIME”

The second taste of Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo’s upcoming collaborative album In The Earth Again is more of an atmospheric slow-burner and it’s got our hopes even higher for this unique collab. Chat Pile also just announced that they were added to the Cap’n Jazz LA show that also includes a Red Krayola reunion, Rainer Maria, and Ceremony guitarist Anthony Anzaldo’s Anthony Family project.

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ELIZA MCLAMB – “SUFFERING”

Eliza McLamb’s anticipated new album arrives next month, and she’s given us another preview with “Suffering.” “I came to see suffering as a creative act — something I often wanted to feel and thus created situations where it was possible,” she says. “I realized my own role in manufacturing pain, and I wanted to play with the idea of suffering as something I sometimes chose as a willing experience.”

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GENEVIEVE ARTADI & REAL BAD MAN – “DON’T GOTTA THINK ABOUT U” & “LITTLE CLAWS”

Real Bad Man usually produces rap albums but now he’s producing an album by Knower’s Genevieve Artadi, and these two new singles find them in funky indie synthpop territory. Titled Everything Is Under Control, the album drops on October 3.

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PREWN – “MY SIDE”

“‘My Side’ is a song about living in a country where the systems in place are bloated with abundance, yet we’re more isolated from community and connection to environment and each other than ever,” Prewn says of the latest single off her anticipated new album System. “Through this epidemic of over-consumption we lose our peace along with our compassion.”

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RAW BRIGADE – “ANOTHER STRUGGLE” & “BOGOTA 12-4Q”

Colombian hardcore punks Raw Brigade have announced a new album, 100%, which drops on November 14 via Flatspot. They’re releasing two versions, one in English and one in Spanish, and the first two singles from both versions are out now. Later this year, Raw Brigade will be on tour with Agnostic Front.

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INDIGO DE SOUZA & MOTHÉ – “SERIOUS”

Ahead of her fall tour, Indigo De Souza has shared a new collaborative single with her soon-to-be tourmate Mothé. “‘Serious’ is a reflection on overthinking— and trying not to!,” Indigo says. “Reminders to myself, and from people I love, to loosen the tight grip I’m often holding internally.​ Life is a heavy experience, so it’s important to make time for letting loose!​ This song is about that moment when you decide you don’t care who’s watching, you’re just going to dance with your whole heart. It’s about trusting joy.​ I absolutely loved singing this song with my friend Mothé. They have such a beautiful voice and they are so fun to write with. I am grateful to have made this song with them, and really excited to hopefully sing it a few times on the tour we have coming up!​”

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STROIK – “WASH AND REPEAT”

Bedroom pop artist Drew Stroik was tragically killed in a highway car crash while on tour in 2022. His posthumous debut album, 65th and York, is finally getting a release on October 24 via Unfiltered Records / Caveman Arts Society. The album was finished with Ivy’s Andy Chase and Bruce Driscoll. “When Drew passed away in 2022, this song and video risked being lost to time on a hard drive,” says Driscoll. “Andy and I couldn’t let that happen. Drew was a layered, insanely talented guy who sometimes had his dark moments, but this track is nothing but joy to me. We recorded it in the winter of 2010 on minimal gear in my tiny studio apartment on the Upper East Side of New York. He needed a video for the release, so with only the equipment I had at the time we went down the street to my laundromat with my friend Leah and filmed it. People were coming in to wash their clothes while we shot and were totally unfazed, which only added to its charm. Drew could be shy, but I think the result reflects the music perfectly – it feels like something you’d stumble across on MTV in the 1990s. This has always been one of my favorite songs of his, and I’m grateful people will finally get to experience it.”

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BARTEES STRANGE – “DCWDTTY”

Bartees Strange says his new single is “not a cover, but a reference to one of my favorite songs from maybe my favorite DC band Smart Went Crazy,” adding, “I lived in DC for a long time, this song is about how it changed my life for better and worse.” It was produced by Jack Antonoff, and it’s from All Things Go’s new 10 Years charity compilation, which benefits The Ally Coalition.

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TERRIFIC (ARCTIC MONKEYS’ MATT HELDERS) – “WEHO”

Terrific is the new solo project of Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders and first single “WeHo” is pretty far away from his day job with its elegant electro-pop sound. Get a taste via Terrific’s Instagram and download the song for free here.

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HANNAH JADAGU – “GIMME TIME”

Hannah Jadagu’s sophomore album Describe is out next month, and the latest single is synthy ballad “Gimme Time.”

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ELIAS RØNNENFELT – “LOVE HOW IT FEELS”

Iceage’s Elias Rønnenfelt has shared another track from his upcoming solo album Speak Daggers. “Love How it Feels” has a ’70s dub vibe.

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SKORTS – “BURDEN”

NYC band Skorts announced their debut LP, Incompletement, due out October 31. Lead guitarist Char Smith says that new single “Burden” is “A song from the VERY early days that fell out of our live rotation for a while and almost got completely swept under the rug but our producer, Teddy O’Mara, wanted to bring it back. It was one of the two original demos we released to SoundCloud (‘Cyclops Girlfriend’ being the other). There is a video of us playing it in its original form somewhere but the groove and structure really got refined in the studio. Alli recorded the main guitar riff on my ‘69 Gibson SG Special.”

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ED HARCOURT – “A GHOST WALKED THROUGH ME”

English singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt has announced new album Orphic which will be out November 14 via Deathless Recordings. “’A Ghost Walked Through Me’ was inspired by my dear late friend Dave Rosser, the guitarist extraordinaire of The Afghan Whigs,” Ed says of the album’s first single. “I really feel like he’s watching over me sometimes, it’s an odd uncanny emotion that I can’t shake off and don’t really want to.”

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GOLDFRAPP – “YOU NEVER KNOW” (GOLDFRAPP REMIX)

UK duo Goldfrapp have announced a 20th anniversary edition of their fantastic third album Supernature. It comes with a ton of remixes, including a few new ones like this the band did themselves for “You Never Know.” The deluxe edition is out November 21 via Mute/BMG.

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PYNCH – “MICROWAVE RHAPSODY”

“Microwave Rhapsody is all about existentialism and the meaning of life,” says Pynch frontman Spencer Enoch of his band’s new single. “It’s Philosophical but also euphoric – a sort of lo-fi trip filled with shimmering synths, krautrock drums, and bursts of distortion. It asks some of the album’s central questions and is one of the most expansive songs we’ve ever written. I really love the lyrics and how everyone in the band has their moment to shine. It felt like the perfect song to share ahead of the album and we can’t wait for everyone to hear how all of the songs work together.” New album Beautiful Noise is out next week.

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SHARP PINS (KAI SLATER OF LIFEGUARD) – “I DON’T HAVE THE HEART”

Kai Slater of Chicago post-punk trio Lifegaurd also makes ’60s-’70s inspired guitar pop as Sharp Pins. New album Balloon Balloon Balloon is out November 21 via K and here’s another power-pop nugget from it.

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FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS – “EVER FALLEN IN LOVE” (DJ Q REMIX)

’80s-era hitmakers Fine Young Cannibals are celebrating their 40th anniversary with a new compilation FYC40 that features their chart-smashes, best deep cuts and remixes. Here’s one of the latter, a new remix of their cover of Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen in Love” by DJ Q.

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ANNABELLE CHAIRLEGS – “ICE CREAM ON THE BEACH” (PROD BY TY SEGALL)

Austin-based musician Lindsey Mackin makes DIY pop as Annabelle Chairlegs and has just shared this track which was produced by Ty Segall. The video, meanwhile, was directed by noted rock photographer Pooneh Ghana.

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EARTHBALL – “WHERE I COME FROM”

If you like your post-punk on the skronky no-wave side, Canadian group Earthball are here for you. New album* Outside Over There* is out November 7 via Upset the Rhythm.

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COMBAT – “BOB DYLAN TO ME”

The fourth taste of Counter Intuitive Records’ 10th anniversary compilation comes from the explosive, high-speed indie-punks Combat. If you haven’t checked out Combat yet but you’re into Jeff Rosenstock, PUP, Titus Andronicus, or Prince Daddy & the Hyena, don’t miss this.

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PORTUGAL. THE MAN – “TANANA” & “MUSH”

Portugal. The Man have announced their 10th album, SHISH, along with the release of two new singles. Read more here.

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Looking for even more new songs? Browse the New Songs archive.