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.
GAY MEAT – “MORE GOOD ANGELS”
Karl Kuehn (Museum Mouth, Say Anything) has had the Gay Meat moniker for years but he’s only just now releasing his first full-length album as Gay Meat, Blue Water, on April 24 via Skeletal Lighting. It was made with help from Jeff Rosenstock, Chris Farren, Sarah Tudzin (illuminati hotties), and others, and the first single is a soaring indie rock song called “More Good Angels.”
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MORGAN NAGLER – “HEARTBREAK CITY”
Morgan Nagler’s debut solo album, I’ve Got Nothing to Lose, and I’m Losing It, is out in March, and she’s shared another new single, “Heartbreak City.” “Although the entire song is mostly metaphor, the meaning is painfully obvious,” she says. “In the present moment, I can’t help but assign new meaning to this song as I stand with Minneapolis and every single heartbroken city right now in America as we witness and collectively experience the grief and total outrage of the shockingly inhumane, cold blooded, fascist, racist, murderous oppression. And for every other heartbroken city experiencing war, starvation, and endless horror on this planet, my great hope is for the pendulum to swing in the exact opposite direction. And I know in my heart it is possible.”
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ANGEL DU$T – “PAIN IS A MUST”
Angel Du$t’s new album Cold 2 The Touch comes out this week, and today we get one more single.
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MIRAH – “THE BALLAD OF THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN”
Mirah’s first album in seven years, Dedication, arrives later this month, and she’s given us another preview with “The Ballad of the Bride of Frankenstein.” “This is a pretty true to form ballad,” she says. “You know. ‘A narrative poem or song which tells a dramatic, often tragic or romantic story in short, rhythmic stanzas.’ In this ballad you can wonder, is the singer the bride of the Monster Frankenstein, or the bride of Doctor Frankenstein, the creator of the monster? These two characters are often interchanged with each other, both accidentally and on purpose- I’m playing with that. And I am inquiring, what parts of us are innate and what parts are created by circumstance and relationship? What are the places of convergence between these three characters and what sets them apart from each other? You can also wonder, is it all as in a dream, where all the characters are you, or all the characters are me.”
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LUKE TEMPLE & THE CASCADING MOMS – “SHAKE ME AWAKE”
Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic, Art Feynman) will release his second album with current backing band The Cascading Moms, titled Hungry Animal, this Friday and here’s a preview.
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SCOUT GILLETT – “CONEY ISLAND”
“I wrote this during a prolonged, really difficult breakup,” Scout Gillett says of “Coney Island,” the latest single off her new album Tough Touch, due out March 6 via Slouch Records. “We went to Coney Island even though we both knew we couldn’t be together anymore. It was one of the most visceral experiences of my life. It was so beautifully real, raw, and sad. We cried and buried notes for our love in the sand during Firework Friday and played ‘Coney Island Baby’ by Lou Reed on repeat. This song exposes the discovery of one’s self through love and loss.”
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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – “WU-TANG”
They Might Be Giants have announced a new album The World Is to Dig, which will be out later this year. (They just released a new EP in January, too.) Full details have yet to be released but John and John note, “It’s all bangers.” Here’s the first of those bangers.
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ANNA CALVI & IGGY POP – “GOD’S LONELY MAN”
“He’s disruptive, raw, and honest — a singular force,” Anna Calvi says of her duet partner on this song, Iggy Pop. “His presence was so perfect for the narrative of this song.” Their voices sound great together on this dark and glammy track which is the opening cut on Calvi’s new EP.
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MARTIN CARR (THE BOO RADLEYS) – “CONNIE CONVERSE IS PLAYING AT MY HOUSE”
“A couple of years ago, I listened to a true crime podcast about a little-known singer-songwriter who had home-recorded her own wildly original music in the late 1950s and had then gone missing in the 1970s,” says Boo Radleys co-founder Martin Carr of his new single. “That was the first time I had heard the name Connie Converse and within a week I had listened to her songs a thousand times. I really connected to her personal and self-effacing lyrics, there is a yearning in her songs that I recognise in my own. I had to find out everything I could about her, which led me to Howard Fishman’s excellent book, To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse. My obsession peaked when I had a dream that she was playing in my kitchen, making beautiful and strange noises on a huge old Moog synth.” This is the first track released from Carr’s upcoming solo album.
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