So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Every week, we review a handful of new albums (from all genres), round up even more new music that we’d call “indie” and talk about what’s coming out of metal. We post music news, track premieres and more all day. We update a weekly playlist of some of our current favorite tracks. Here is a daily summary with a bunch of interesting and recently released songs in one place.
GLORILLA – “BLESSED”
The Memphis rapper GloRilla has had a meteoric rise since releasing her viral “FNF (Let’s Go)” and single “Tomorrow,” and now she has another new track out in the world, “Blessed.” This one is less of a party anthem and shows off a tougher side to GloRilla, and it’s another great one.
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SHYGIRL – “NIKE”
Experimental pop and rap artist Shygirl shared another taste of Nymphand it’s a subdued but raunchy dose of art-rap that rocks the subwoofers.
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ARI LENNOX- MISSING MESSAGE PE
The second album by Dreamville R&B singer Ari Lennox age/gender/location is coming next week (9/9), but first she prepares us with the Away message PE. It contains five new songs, including one with Summer Walker.
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MARINA ALLEN – “HALFWAY TO HOME”
“Halfway Home is my hype-man song,” says Marina Allen of this lovely new song. “I wrote it for a friend who I really believe in, who was stuck in his own thoughts. It’s a wake-up song, a friendship song, a song I wrote because I needed to hear it too.” Marina Centrifics’ new album is out September 16th via Fire.
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RL – “BE TRUE”
Los Angeles musician Rachel Levy has announced a new EP as RL, Be honestwhich will be released on September 27 via Lauren Records, and shared the appealing title track.
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EDITORS – “VIBE”
Tom Smith, frontman of longtime UK indie band Editors, says the band’s new single “Vibe” “takes where [2019’s] “Frankenstein” has come to a standstill and is an anthem celebrating the night and all that thrives in the dark. »
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TINARIWEN – “ARGHANE MANINE”
Malian band Tinariwen have announced a reissue of their 1992 hand-swapped cassette Kel Tinariwen which will be his very first official release. It will be released on November 4 via Wedge. Discover “Arghane Manine” which shows a more electronic version of the group.
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BEVERLY KILLS – “FANTASY”
The debut album by Swedish band Beverly Kills Kaleido due out September 30 via Welfare Souds, and the latest single is “Fantasia”, which they say is “about dreaming about catastrophic events. Crash your car on the freeway, get away unscathed. Start a fight with someone and win without a claw on your hands.”
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CRACK CLOUD – “A COSTLY ENGINEERED ILLUSION”
As usual, the latest single from Vancouver collective Crack Cloud is accompanied by an ambitious self-directed video. They say: “We spent a week in Trenčín, Slovakia, during the summer, producing a theatrical representation of the housing crisis in Western Canada. It was our first venture into live theater; the process was spontaneous, disorienting and new. Finding synergy with Silvia Sviteková and her dance company was an enriching experience, strengthening our mutual love for creative improvisation. The video is mostly a compilation of B roll from our time there. Crack Cloud’s second album, Hard babywill be released on September 16 via Meat Machine.
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THE SWEET MOON – “MONSTER”
The Soft Moon has shared another new track from their upcoming album To exist, accompanied by a provocative music video. According to director Bryan M Ferguson, “The song evokes for me a real sense of underlined pain. I knew straight away that the video should be a metamorphosis, a person’s body transforming into something hideous. C is definitely a literal visual interpretation of what the song is about, but I really wanted the transformation from one physical form to another to be slow, painful and almost organic.” Exist will be released on September 23 via Sacred Bones.
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ROBYN HITCHCOCK – “THE ENRAGED MUSE”
“Songs come to me alive and sparkling, fresh out of the lake of my subconscious. I’m a compulsive writer,” says Hitchcock of “The Raging Muse” from his upcoming album, Shufflemania! “‘The Raging Muse’ was written in Nashville in 2020. It started life as a sketchy house recording, just me and my old Telecaster – the same guitar I played on ELEMENT OF LIGHT in 1986 – this time- ci faithfully crafted by Tubby and Ringo.Once I had the bones of the song, I sent it to my friend Davey Lane in Melbourne, who fleshed it out with a sharp lead guitar, and then to Charlie Francis in Cardiff, who added the melodramatic piano and bagpipe weed in this song is one of many recurring dreams of mine, I’m sure they will come up again soon.” Shufflemania! features former Soft Boys bandmates Kimberley Rew and Morris Windsor, as well as Johnny Marr, Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs, Sean Ono Lennon, Kelley Stoltz and Eric Slick of Dr Dog, and will be released October 21 via Tiny Ghost.
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VR SEX – “SNAKE WATER” (LIVE VIDEO)
Gothy psych-punks VR Sex release new album Gross dimensions on Dais Records earlier this year, and now they have an official live video for his song “Snake Water.” It’s a sensory overload of a video, which fits perfectly with the snarling song.
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CARM – “MORE AND MORE” (ft. EDIE BRICKELL)
CARM, the solo project of CJ Camerieri (yMusic, Bon Iver, Paul Simon, etc), will be released CARM II on October 21 via 37d07d, and the first single is this atmospheric collab with Edie Brickell.
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NATIVE SUN – “THERE IS THE REVOLUTION”
Brooklyn punk bands Native Sun have announced a new EP produced by Walter Schreifels, Down with our heads, October 14 via Grand Jury. Along with the announcement comes this sneering, fuzzy single.
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KARIN PARK – “TOKYO AT NIGHT”
Liberation of Karin Park Private collection on October 7 via Pelagic, and now you can experience the booming gothic pop art of “Tokyo By Night.”
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LESS JAKE – “THE HIGH COST OF LOW LIVING” (ACOUSTICS)
Less Than Jake has announced a 2020 deluxe edition silver linings, due October 21 via Pure Noise. It includes two new songs and acoustic versions of four of the songs from the album. One of them, “The High Cost of Low Living”, is out now, along with a new music video for the album’s song “So Much Less”.
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THE 1975 – “I’M IN LOVE WITH YOU”
The 1975s shared “I’m In Love With You”, the third single from their upcoming fifth album be funny in a foreign language, and this one finds them exploring their sweet jangle pop side. Learn more here.
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THE RAGING NATHANS – “NOTHING I CAN DO”
Dayton, Ohio punks The Raging Nathans are about to release their fifth album, Still spitting bloodin November via Rad Girlfriend Records, and you can read more about the first single “Nothing I Can Do” here.
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MOUNT KIMBIE – MK 3.5 FT SLOWTHAI, DANNY BROWN, VIV.E
Electronic duo Mount Kimbie (Kai Campus and Dom Maker) are back and have shared two double-A singles which they collectively call MK 3.5. “in your eyes” features slowthai and Danny Brown, while “a deities encore” features Liv.e, plus “Q” and “Quartz”. It’s their first new music in a year.
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VINCE GUARALDI TRIO – “”SKATING” (#7 TAKE 1 RECORDED SEPTEMBER 22, 1965)”
One of the greatest holiday albums of all time, Vince Guaraldi’s score for the equally beloved special A Charlie Brown Christmas, is re-released on October 14 via Craft Recordings. There are a few different editions available, all of which feature a brand new stereo mix of the album, remastered from the original 3-track and 2-track sources. There are also deluxe and super deluxe editions featuring excerpts from the sessions the Vince Guaraldi Trio recorded for the special. Check out this other take, complete with studio talk, from “Skating.”
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