17 New Songs Out Today

Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.

AFGHAN WHIGS – “HOUSE OF I”

Afghan Whigs have made a video for their new single “House of I” which was directed by Scott Marshall and features a lot of California coastline and zombie surfers/skaters.

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MUNA – “WANNABEHER”

MUNA’s new album Dancing on the Wall arrives next month, and they’ve given us another early taste with “Wannabeher.” “This song is our version of Bikini Kill’s Rebel Girl – it’s about the experience of really admiring someone and feeling confused about whether you want to be them or be with them or both,” they say. “A gay canon event”

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NATION OF LANGUAGE – “TOUGHER THAN THE REST” (BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN COVER)

“Like so many young New Jersey residents, I grew up listening to Springsteen, but this song somehow slipped by me during that formative era,” says Ian Devaney of Nation of Language’s cover of this classic Boss song. “I was really only exposed to it within the last few years, and it’s followed me around since then. I can remember finishing a particularly emotional show somewhere deep in last year’s tour, and our sound engineer, Skinny, started playing it as our exit music. It caught me so hard that I stayed there, just offstage, and listened to the rest of the song blasting, mixed with the sounds of all of the people milling about the venue. When we ultimately endeavored that we might try doing our own version of the song, we luckily had a Yamaha CS-80 at our disposal, the same synth model which featured pretty heavily across the Tunnel of Love sessions back in ’87. Knowing we were working with some of the same textures as the original made it a little less daunting to cover Bruce.”

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FIRE-TOOLZ – “AND WHERE IS THE HEART? I’VE SEARCHED MY ENTIRE HOME” (FT. JENNIFER HOLM)

Fire-Toolz new album and first for Warp, Lavender Networks, is out in May, and they’ve given us a second preview with “And Where Is The Heart? I’ve Searched My Entire Home,” which features Nashville session singer Jennifer Holm. “One evening I was watching a goofy YouTube video by this creator named Eddy Burback,” they say. “At the end of the video he inserted a royalty free stock song that was kind of a sad ballad, to try and create a mood for a sequence in the video. I was sooooo overtaken by it for some reason, despite it being used as simple low-key melancholy montage music. Strumming an acoustic guitar and singing some sad words. But it gripped me in an intense way. It resonated with me immediately. I knew whoever was playing & singing it was someone special. I got kinda weird and scoured the internet for the artist, because in my experience most royalty free stock music is faceless. I eventually found her, though. A session singer, church mommy and Nashville lady with a few solo albums from the 2010s. I listened to them over and over and over and over. Just….post-country, inoffensive, low key, singer songwriter stuff. But I was obsessed with her songs for some reason. I found her, reached out, asked her how much she’d charge to sing lead on one of my songs. She was all about it right off the bat. I wrote the lyrics, and what you hear is what she sent back on her first try. It’s one of my favorite songs I’ve ever made. I don’t know if Jennifer knows what she got herself into!!!”

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WAXAHATCHEE – “WHERE’S YOUR LOVE NOW” (THIS IS LORELEI COVER)

The full covers “super deluxe” version of This is Lorelei’s excellent 2024 album Box for Buddy, Box for Star is out this Friday, and the final advance single is Waxahatchee’s rendition of “Where’s Your Love Now.” “I’m honored to be included in this re-record project as the album Box for Buddy, Box for Star has meant so much to me these last few years,” she says. “I think Nate is one of the best songwriters of this moment, making music that feels current and timeless and also somehow ahead of a curve. When i heard ‘Where’s Your Love Now’ I thought it was one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. I am so happy to have covered it and happy to finally share it.”

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GUN OUTFIT – “TEARDROPS (CLASSIC HELL ON EARTH)”

Gun Outfit have shared another song from their first album in six years.. “Teardrops (Classic Hell on Earth)” is gorgeous, melachnoic stuff and comes with a very vibey video.

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TERROR – “FEAR THE PANIC” (FT. CHUCK RAGAN)

Terror’s new album Still Suffer arrives later this month, and they’ve shared a third single. “Fear the Panic” features guest vocals from Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music, and was co-produced by Chad Gilbert.

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HUNX AND HIS PUNKS – “DEAD TO ME”

Hunx and His Punks follow up last year’s terrific Walk Out on This World with a new EP, The Punkettes, and this is the first single.

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SPELLLING – “AMMUNITION” (REMIX FT. JEAN DAWSON)

“[This is] ‘Ammunition’ reimagined as the duet I always intended and heard it to be,” SPELLLING says of the new remix of “Ammunition” off last year’s Portrait of My Heart, featuring Jean Dawson. “We laced the original’s romantic R&B into a grittier, cathedral-of-synths version. A dark fairytale turned electric. Jean’s voice is a mirror to the song’s strange soul; our outsider hearts collide. I think Jean channels that same retro-soul weirdness I grew up on, and our chemistry makes the love story feel more urgent. We lean into being beautiful misfits searching for refuge; co-produced and brought to life by Psymun.”

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FAMILY STEREO – “FAULT LINES”

Family Stereo is Blake Watt, the son of Everything But the Girl’s Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn, who is in his parents’ words, “a wonderful musican, singer and songwriter in his own right.” He’s signed to Bella Union and will release his debut album, The Thread, on July 31

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TORI AMOS – “GASOLINE GIRLS”

“Gasoline Girls,” the latest single off Tori Amos’ new album In Times of Dragons, is about a lesbian motorcycle gang. “This is a metaphor for many different transformations – from a teenage girl becoming a woman, to shifts in gender identity or fundamental belief systems, to the life changes that come with pregnancy, motherhood and eventually menopause,” she says. “The song explores the emotions that come with leaving one version of yourself behind and stepping into another.”

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WIDOWSPEAK – “NO DRIVER”

Widowspeak singer/guitarist Molly Hamilton says “No Driver” might be her favorite song on the band’s upcoming album Roses. “There’s something really special to me about how it turned out, kind of wild and sprawling. Talking to the band about it, we all get transported back to the night we recorded it, in the big live room in Hydra. It feels like a night song to me, a road song if you will.. which is funny as it came from an island without cars.”

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BCMC (COOPER CRAIN & BILL MACKAY) – “KALEIDOSMOKE”

Drag City labelmates Cooper Crain (Bitchin Bajas, Stereolab) and Bill MacKay have announced a new BCMC album, Stash, which will be out June 26. “Kaleidosmoke” is guitary, it is synthy, and it is very pretty in a psychedelic kind of way.

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ALABASTER DEPLUME – “GLASS”

“Superheating sand, it melts,” is how Alabaster DePlume describes new single “Glass” and also the useful substance it’s named for. “It becomes clear, transparent. Hardening, it becomes glass. The glass, we shatter, and it becomes shards. And yet still it manages to shine, in a way. They are transparent. How a human being can endure extremes of brutal punishment, and yet still shine, still be transparent, clear, still refract the light.”

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SAOSIN – “STARTING OVER AGAIN”

It’s the post-hardcore vets first song in over a decade.

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THE BOUNCING SOULS – “THE LIGHT”

The Bouncing Souls announced a new album and shared the opening track. Read more about it here, and pre-order our exclusive half black/half yellow vinyl variant, limited to 300 copies.

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GENGHIS TRON – “I AM ALL”

Genghis Tron are back and have announced their fourth album, Signal Fire, which will be out June 12 via Relapse. It’s their first in five years and this is the first single.

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