25 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.

BOB MOULD – “NEANDERTHAL”

“In the early stages of writing this album, I envisioned ‘Neanderthal’ as the opening track,” says Mould of “Neanderthal” which ended up as the second song on his upcoming album Here We Go Crazy. “I imagined a child raised in an unstable home, perpetually exposed to erratic and confrontational behavior. A fight or flight situation. ‘Neanderthal’ is a frantic sprint through darkened hallways littered with tension, conflict, and aggression. A claustrophobic maze of distorted mirrors. As the song nears the end, a pair of subconscious voices appear. The first voice is both soothing and unsettling, while the final voice is reactionary and violent. It’s a fight or flight song.”

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MOSES SUMNEY – “HEY GIRL(S)” FT. MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO & SYD

Moses Sumney reimagined “Hey Girl” off his 2024 EP Sophcore, with Meshell Ndegeocello and Syd contributing to the new version. “I was excited when Moses thought of me for this song because I love his voice, it’s just otherworldly, and this song spoke to me because of the way he pushes a romantic narrative into the future,” Meshell says. “It was a pleasure to get a glimpse into his process and an honor to be part of it.”

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OKLOU – “BLADE BIRD”

Oklou’s debut LP choke enough is out this Friday, and ahead of its release she’s shared a final advance single, “blade bird,” where acoustic and electronic elements twine around each other.

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GUIDED BY VOICES – “I WANNA BE A MONK”

Guided by Voices 41st album, Universe Room, is out this week and here’s one last preview. “I Wanna Be a Monk” hearkens back to their low-fi days.

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RACHEL BOBBITT – “SWEETEST HEART”

“‘Sweetest Heart’ started as a collaboration between myself and my guitarist Justice Der,” Rachel Bobbitt says of her dreamy new single. “He had made this instrumental for a friend who ended up passing on it — and as soon as I heard it I knew I wanted to build something around it. When we brought the demo to Chris Coady, he added a beautiful and sometimes eerie mixture of human and digital elements. I wanted this song to feel like a spell was being cast, with live drums, artificial cellos, chanting choirs, and group vocal solos reiterating a theme of unconditional love. ‘All of my loving, pushing water, swimming in towards the sand.'” It’s from the debut LP she’s been preparing, which is still to be announced.

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THROWING MUSES – “LIBRETTO”

Here’s another song off Throwing Muses’ upcoming 11th album Moonlight Concessions. “We call this the honey song,” Kristin Hersh says. “It’s sweet, and mentions honey a bunch of times, but really because it seems important to provide a thawing influence when people you like are subjected to a cold world. Bring the warmth and honey flows all around.”

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LÉA SEN – “HOME ALONE”

London-based French singer, songwriter and producer Léa Sen is preparing a new project for Partisan, and ahead of that she’s given us a preview with new alt-pop track “Home Alone,” which she says is “about my worst flaw that is also my best quality—my ability to dream with no doubt. It’s brought me incredible highs and, at times, left me stuck in a prison of the worlds I created in my mind. I can feel like I’m flying above reality one moment and falling behind the next, caught between daydreams and ambition, love and limerence. Being a wild dreamer lets me shape new realities through music, but no one’s there to pull me back when life calls. It’s a contradiction I live with every day—a blessing and a curse.”

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TEEN MORTGAGE – “BOX”

DMV-via-UK punk duo Teen Mortgage have announced their debut album, Devil Ultrasonic Dream, due April 11 via Roadrunner, and the first single is a gritty, catchy garage punk ripper called “Box.” The band also announced a North American tour, including shows with Babe Haven, Spoon Benders, and Upchuck, varying by date. (NYC gets a stop on May 15 at TV Eye with Upchuck.)

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HAMILTON LEITHAUSER – “BURN THE BOATS”

Hamilton Leithauser’s new solo album, This Side of the Island, arrives next month, and he’s given us another preview with the jaunty “Burn the Boats.” “I finished this song in the spring of 2024, and then in the summer my friend sent me a link to a Joe Rogan event called ‘Burn the Boats,'” he says. “At first I thought, ‘Oh fuck. Aw shit. Oh fuck this shit!!!,’ but then I listened to Joe Rogan’s podcast for the first time, and I learned that he has absolutely no idea what he is talking about and I don’t care about his nonsense. My song is about being at a party, falling in love with someone, and deciding you want nothing more than to go home with them. At the same time, the party’s now kinda boring, and you’d really like to speed up the process. ‘I wanna go home!’ Who can’t relate to that? I wrote a backup line for my friend Lachrisha, which was definitely inspired by Funkadelic, and the guitar playing was definitely inspired by David Bowie’s ‘Low.'”

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CELEBRITY (MILITARIE GUN, LURK, ETC) – AUTOMATIC CHARGER EP + “WILDFLOWER” VIDEO

Celebrity is a new-ish band led by Kevin Kiley of Militarie Gun and Lurk, and the band’s lineup also includes bassist Chris Mills (Harms Way, Inclination), guitarist Kevin Maida (Knuckle Puck), and drummer Drew Brown (Weekend Nachos), and their new sophomore EP Automatic Charger was recorded with Weekend Nachos’ Andy Nelson. It finds the punk/hardcore musicians going in more of a post-punk/indie rock direction, and it comes with a video for opening track “Wildflower.”

Automatic Changer by Celebrity

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ROCKET – “TAKE YOUR AIM”

Rocket have been opening for a lot of legendary ’90s rock bands lately (like Ride and Sunny Day Real Estate), and their own music sounds like it could’ve come straight from that era. They just announced an expanded edition of their 2023 debut EP Versions of You, due April 18 via via Transgressive Records / Canvasback, and it’ll include the catchy, grungegazey new single “Take Your Aim.”

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ANAND WILDER – “CHALLENGERS” FT. MAIA FRIEDMAN (NEW PORNOGRAPHERS COVER)

Anand Wilder of Yeasayer reimagined New Pornographers’ “Challengers” for the ongoing 20th anniversary celebration of Last Gang Records, with Maia Friedman joining him. “I had a lot of fun interpreting ‘Challengers’, one of my favorite New Pornographers songs with Maia Friedman in my studio last March,” Anand says. “The other cover track we did (‘Love Is A Place,’ by Metric) was super sparse so we decided to make this one a little more full and uptempo with some chimey guitars and drum machines. Maia sang fantastic harmonies as always and ripped a great Frippy guitar solo for the instrumental breakdown which I stitched together for kind of a psychedelic spiraling canon effect over the descending chords. Tested the top of my singing range stacking Fleetwood Macesque harmonies late into the night for the final chorus, for a real anthemic sounding resolution. Thanks to Eric Zeiler for the mix and I hope we did the song justice.”

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COMBUST – “EVERYONE’S ENEMY”

NYHC band Combust have shared the second single off their upcoming LP Belly of the Beast, a middle-fingers-up anthem called “Everyone’s Enemy.”

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WHITNEY JOHNSON AND LIA KOHL – “73|74 (EXCERPT)”

Matchess’ Whitney Johnson has been collaborating with cellist Lia Kohl (Moon Glyph) for nearly a decade but For Translucence is their first official album as a duo and will be out March 28 via Drag City.

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ΣTELLA – “OMORFO MOU”

Greek artist Σtella will release new album Adagio on April 4 via Sub Pop and here’s her inviting new single. She says it’s an ode “to anything precious to us and how that’s worth giving it all we got.”

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ROI TURBO – “SUPER HANDS”

South African electronic duo Roi Turbo are back with this new banger. They say: “‘Super Hands’ is the warehouse industrial side of Roi Turbo with its modular sequencing and hard hitting drum machines. We were keen to experiment and mix warehouse dance with guitars and live percussion. We’ve always loved that progressive ‘90’s sound and had fun trying to make it fit into the Turbo world.”

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JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA – “THE MILKY SEA”

Ambient composer Jefre Cantu-Ledesma has announced new album, Gift Songs, which will be out March 28 via Mexican Summer. Float away in “The Milky Sea.”

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KITE – “HEARTLESS PLACES” (FEAT. NINA PERSSON) / “HEAVEN N HELL”

The Cardigans’ Nina Persson guests on the new single by fellow Swedes and long-running synth duo Kite. She says “Heartless Places” is “very much a true Kite song, faithful to their soundscape. I’m incredibly drawn to them.” Nina’s distinctive vocals leaven the gothy melodrama here just a little.

Heartless Places / Heaven N Hell by Kite

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SABA & NO ID – “WOES OF THE WORLD”

The long-awaited, highly-anticipated Saba & No ID album is supposed to finally arrive this year, and here’s another taste to tide you over.

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BENMONT TENCH – “THE MELANCHOLY SEASON”

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench has announced his second-ever solo album and first in over 10 years, The Melancholy Season, due March 7 via Dark Horse Records. It was produced by Jonathan Wilson, and it features contributions from Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek), Jenny O., and Sebastian Steinberg. (Soul Coughing). Here’s the piano ballad title track.

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YHWH NAILGUN – “SICKLE WALK”

Brooklyn experimentalists YHWH Nailgun announced their debut album 45 Pounds, along with the release of new single “Sickle Walk.” Read more here.

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LUCIUS – “GOLD RUSH”

The new single from Lucius’ upcoming self-titled fourth album is kinda funky and has Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe’s harmonies and ’70s rock grooves running through its veins.

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UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA – “EARTH 1”

New album IC-02 Bogotá is part of UMO’s instrumental IC series and will be out March 28 via Jagjaguwar. Here’s the first single.

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DAUGHTER OF SWORDS – “ALONE TOGETHER”

Daughter of Swords announced their new album, Alex, and gave us another early taste with “Alone Together,” which you can read more about here.

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DESTROYER – “HYDROPLANING OFF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD”

Destroyer‘s new album Dan’s Boogie is out next month (3/28) and he’s just shared the second single from it. “Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World” is one of the hookiest Destroyer songs we’ve gotten in while, all sweeping synthpop with Dan dropping lines like “Fools rush in / But they’re the only ones with guts.”

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