20 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.

I PROMISED THE WORLD – “BLISS IN 7 LANGUAGES”

If you miss early 2000s post-hardcore and metalcore, you’ll probably like I Promised the World (fka Sinema). After releasing their 2024 debut album Fear of the Fall on the fast-rising metalcore label Ephrya and touring with Deafheaven, they signed to Rise Records, who will release the band’s new self-titled EP on January 16. They recorded it with Jon Markson (who’s worked with Drain, Drug Church, Koyo, etc), and they’re also opening the second leg of Koyo’s tour (alongside Ben Quad and Restraining Order), which begins this week and hits NYC on November 23 at Racket. The first single is “Bliss In 7 Languages.”

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SMERZ – BIG CITY LIFE EDITS

To go with their 2025 album, Smerz invited Astrid Sonne, Erika de Casier, Fine, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Elias Rønnenfelt, ML Buch, Clarissa Connelly, Clairo and more to reinterpret its songs for Big city life EDITS.

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KING HANNAH – “THIS HOTEL ROOM”

UK duo King Hannah are back with a new 7″ single that will be out December 7 via City Slang and this is the A-side. Say the band: “Our favourite thing to do is sing together and harmonise and we wanted a song of our own that allowed us to do this, a song that sounded timeless and nostalgic and paid homage to the country-folk singers we love so much while still resonating as a King Hannah track. We’re always trying to capture an intimacy and write in a way that is personal and honest and reflective, and ‘This Hotel Room’ is no exception to this. To us it’s about the past and the future, about trying to find warmth and love in both of those things while also recognising the sadness and sense of loss inherent to both.”

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HOLLY HUMBERSTONE – “DIE HAPPY”

“I wrote ‘Die Happy’ thinking about a fairytale at night, somewhere between driving fast with the windows down and wandering through a crumbling old house,” Holly Humberstone says of her new single. “I took inspiration from The Bloody Chamber and Dracula and I wanted to show the feeling of throwing yourself into love fully and recklessly. There is danger in love.”

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ANDY BELL – “THE CHANCE WON’T COME AGAIN’” FT KEANE’S TIM RICE-OXLEY

Erasure’s Andy Bell has teamed with Keane’s Tim Rice-Oxley for this new single. “It has been such an honour to work with one of my musical heroes on this song,” says Tim. “It was pretty surreal when I first heard Andy’s magical vocals on something I had written..absolutely the stuff of dreams. The song is a real tears-on-the-dancefloor banger, full of romance and the pathos of missed opportunities. We had such a great time making it and we hope you love it.” This is from the four-disc deluxe edition of Andy’s album Ten Crowns which has been retitled The Crown Jewels.

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LAUFEY – “SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN”

Laufey is getting the holiday season started early with her new take on the classic carol “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town.”

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SORRY – “CANDLE”

Sorry’s third album, COSPLAY, is out this week (spoiler alert: it’s great) and here’s one last preview before the whole thing is upon us.

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JOSEPH – “CLOSER TO ME”

JOSEPH’s new album Closer to Happy is out in January, and they’ve shared another single from it, “Closer to Me.” “I wanted to write a song that would help me wake up on mornings where my body is experiencing pain and shift my mindset towards loving and nurturing myself and move it away from self hatred and shaming myself for not having answers for why my body feels the way that it does,” Meegan Closner says.

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SÉBASTIEN TELLIER – NAÏF DE COEUR (JOHNNY JEWEL & MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS REMIXES)

Sébastien Tellier’s new album won’t be out till early next year but he’s just released this EP featuring remixes of “Naïf de Coeur” by Johnny Jewel and Midnight Juggernauts.

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COMMON LAW (EX AMBULANCE LTD) – “WIRES”

Marcus Congleton (formerly of Ambulance LTD) leads newish LA band Common Law who channel ’70s soft rock. ‘Wires” is the first single from their self-titled debut EP that’s out November 21.

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THE WAVE PICTURES – “ALICE”

Long-running UK indie rock group The Wave Pictures have signed to Bella Union who will release their new album, Gained / Lost, on February 27. “This song was influenced by the book ‘My Education: A Book Of Dreams’ by William Burroughs, which is a kind of dream journal, but written in clean, almost hardboiled prose,” says frontman David Tattersall of the album’s first single. “Alice takes place in a dreamworld. Burroughs might have called this world The Land of the Dead. There is a promise of ice cream in a world between life and death, a kind of holding station. Everybody’s spirit returns to the universe. If this was a movie it would be directed by David Lynch, and it would be black and white. Musically, the song has the kind of open-hearted optimism of a Daniel Johnston or Buddy Holly. There’s a multicoloured joy to the music, and a black and white strangeness to the lyrics.”

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WESTERMAN – “SPRING”

Westerman’s new album A Jackal’s Wedding is out this Friday and he’s just shared this solo piano rendition of one of the album’s songs, “Spring.”

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DEATH VALLEY GIRLS – “SEASON OF DREAMING”

Slow Xmas 5, this year’s edition of the annual compilation of alternative slowed-down Christmas music, will be out December 1 and features songs from Eric Slick of Dr. Dog, Dave Hartley of The War on Drugs (Nightlands), and more. The first single is this dreamy number by Death Valley Girls.

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KYLIE MINOGUE – “XMAS”

Christmas music is officially here, including this new festive anthem from Kylie Minogue. It’s an Amazon Music exclusive for now, but it’ll also appear on her upcoming 10th anniversary edition of Kylie Christmas.

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FERG – “P.O.L.O.”

(A$AP) FERG sounds especially fired up on new single “P.O.L.O.”

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REMEMBER SPORTS – “BUG”

Remember Sports have announced a new album, The Refrigerator, due in February via Get Better Records. Read more about the LP and new single “Bug” here.

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BABYSHAMBLES – “DANDY HOOLIGAN”

Pete Doherty has revived his post-Libertines band Babyshambles for a tour, and they’ve just released their first new single in 12 years, “Dandy Hooligan.” “It’s a well-turned-out, elegantly crafted, reggae-ska-pop song… with a sweet melody to bowl along to with your sharpened walking cane,” says Doherty.

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PAULA KELLEY (DROP NINETEENS) – “PARTY LINE”

Drop Nineteens are working on their follow-up to great comeback album Hard Light, but meanwhile singer/guitarist Paula Kelley has announced her first solo album in 20 years. It’s titled Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out and this is the first single.

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KIWI JR – “HARD DRIVE, ONTARIO”

Toronto’s Kiwi Jr are back with their first new music in three years, “Hard Drive, Ontario.” With its changing tempos and time signatures, this single might take a second to get your head around but it’s also a total earworm. Viva la quirk!

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