15 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.

DAVID J & THE RESISTANCE – “ICE TOO COLD TO THAW”

Bauhaus and Love & Rockets bassist David J has released a new protest song that features Ulises Bella (Ozomatli), Jason Roberts (Spoon) and artwork by Shepard Fairey and Tomo77. Says David, “I’ve been witnessing the ongoing fascist horror of what is happening on the streets in the USA with these ICE oppressors, kidnapping good hardworking people especially in my adopted hometown of Los Angeles. The potential impact of this song may only be a drop in the ocean, but that ocean is made up of drops as is a tidal wave! Bring it on!”

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SAMPHA – “CUMULUS / MEMORY”

Two years after releasing his sophomore album Lahai, Sampha shares the previously unheard “Cumulus / Memory,” which was co-written with Romy, who contributed backing vocals. “Cumulus was the first song I wrote for Lahai and the last one to be finished,” he says. “Living with it for some time, I really feel like I wanted to share it with people.”

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PULLMAN (TORTOISE, COME, etc) – “WEIGHTLESS”

Not only is Tortoise’s first album in 9 years out this week, the Tortoise-related band Pullman just announced their first album in 25 years. Pullan’s lineup includes Tortoise members Ken “Bundy K.” Brown and Doug McCombs (also of Gast del Sol and Eleventh Dream Day, respectively), along with Come’s Chris Brokaw and Rex’s Curtis Harvey, and they released albums in 1998 (Turnstiles & Junkpiles) and 2001 (Viewfinder) before going into hibernation. Their third album, III, arrives January 9 via Western Vinyl, and its first single is a shimmering, nearly-seven-minute song called “Weightless.”

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KACEY MUSGRAVES – “IF THE WORLD BURNS DOWN”

Kacey Musgraves contributed “If The World Burns Down” to the soundtrack to the second season of Netfliex series Nobody Wants This, starring Adam Brody and Kristen Bell.

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ARI LENNOX – “UNDER THE MOON”

R&B singer Ari Lennox has announced her third album, Vacancy, due January 23 via Interscope. Here’s the sharp, soulful new single “Under the Moon.”

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SASAMI – “JUST BE FRIENDS (SOCCER MOMMY VERSION)”

SASAMI shared a new version of “Just Be Friends” off her 2025 album Blood on the Silver Screen featuring Soccer Mommy. “When I was working on Blood On the Silver Screen, I found myself returning to country often,” SASAMI says. “I listened to Dolly, Johnny, Patsy, Merle and even a lot of the modern country that I had previously dismissed. Country songs have to be some of the most effective and cutting examples of peak pop songwriting- wit, drama, humor, sadness, and the most human of all- horniness. My song ‘Just Be Friends,’ was definitely inspired by modern country, but I knew if I wanted it to be truly authentic I would need to enlist an actual southern princess. This new version featuring Soccer Mommy, pedal steel and all, delivers on the country magic that I had always wished could be in that song. That’s the best part about collaboration, all hat all cattle.”

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SHOP TALK – “MUSEUM OF SEX”

NYC punks Shop Talk have a new 7″ single that’s out November 14 via One Track Mind Records. Here’s the very catchy A-side. The band say it recasts NYC’s Museum of Sex as “a kind of glitchy psychic landscape, rather than a physical place… The narrator tries to understand the history of human sexuality, but is plagued by unreliable memories and ulterior motives.”

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KEATON HENSON – “PAST IT” & “LOOSE ENDS”

Keaton Henson has unveiled two more early tastes of his new album Parader. “This one’s a bit meta,” he says of “Past It.” “It’s me looking at ageing and growing older as a musician. But also reflecting on the whole idea of a 37-year-old man singing the kinds of songs I sing, especially the way I am on this album. Sometimes you can catch your reflection while writing songs and I have these thoughts, usually ending with wondering if anyone will even hear it.” About “Loose Ends,” he adds, “It’s referential of music from my youth. The kind of early 2000s rock bands from America. It’s pretty sarcastic. It’s about feeling like you’re guilting someone into staying with you. It’s pretty snarky, self-loathing and dark, maybe contrasting the fun of the music.”

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DOVE ELLIS – “PALE SONG” & “LOVE IS”

Irish artist Dove Ellis announced his debut album, Blizzard, due out December 5 via Black Butter/AMF Records. It includes the recent “To The Sandals,” and he’s shared two more singles, “Pale Song” and “Love Is.”

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MUI ZYU – “ASTRAL PLANE” (SHAMIR COVER)

“I immediately loved the imagery in the song and the kind of classic 1950s feel,” mui zyu says of her cover of Shamir’s “Astral Plane,” for Father/Daughter Records’ Fifteen series celebrating their 15th anniversary. “To me it could be about escaping from the material world (hell) to the astral plane (a kind of alternative heaven) with the playful bleakness of having to ‘work on the astral plane’. We tried to create these plane-y textures in the production to represent that space, and have moments in the music climbing up to, and falling down from, them to tell the story.”

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GUV – “LET YOUR HANDS GO”

Former Fucked Up guitarist Ben Cook has rebranded his solo project Young Guv to GUV and with that comes a new musical direction: early-’90s baggy rock a la Primal Scream’s “Loaded.”

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FOO FIGHTERS – “ASKING FOR A FRIEND”

Dave Grohl says Foo Fighters’ new single “Asking for a Friend” is “one of many songs to come.” Read more about it here.

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HEMLOCKE SPRINGS – “HEADS, SHOULDERS, KNEES AND ANKLES”

hemlocke springs announced her debut album and gave us a preview with “heads, shoulders, knees and ankles,” which you can read more about here.

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