New Music Friday - August 16, 2024

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	beabadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves Watch: "Take a Bite" Watch: "Coming Home"
	Blind Pilot - In the Shadow of the Holy Mountain Watch: "Just a Bird" Watch: "Jacaranda"
	Charly Bliss - Forever Watch: "Nineteen" Watch: "Waiting for You"
	Tinashe - Quantum Baby Watch: "Getting No Sleep" Listen: "When I Get You Alone"
	Wishy - Triple Seven Watch: "Triple Seven" Watch: "Sick Sweet"

Other Full-Length Releases

Delicate Steve - Delicate Steve Sings Watch: "I’ll Be There" Listen: "Baby"

Horse Jumper of Love - Disaster Trick Watch: "Snow Angel" Watch: "Today’s Iconoclast"

Matty - POPS Watch: "FOOL 4 U" Watch: "Can You Hold Me Tight?"

Post Malone - F-1 Trillion Watch: "Pour Me a Drink" (featuring Blake Shelton) Watch: "Guy for That" (featuring Luke Combs)

Ray LaMontagne - Long Way Home Watch: "Long Way Home" Watch: "Step into Your Power"

Rosie Lowe - Lover, Other Watch: "In My Head" Watch: "Mood to Make Love"

Tre Loaded - LOADED Watch: "The Ticket" (with That Mexican OT) Watch: "Don’t Panic"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Del Water Gap - I Miss You Already + I Haven’t Left Yet (Deluxe) Watch: "Doll House" (Live) Listen: "Purple Teeth, the Bravery"

Dinosaur Jr. - Farm (15th Anniversary Edition) Listen: "Show" Listen: "Creepies"

Father John Misty - Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said to Crawl Watch: "Real Love Baby" Listen: "I Guess Time Just Makes a Fool of Us All"

Palehound - Live at First Congregational Church Listen: "How Long" (Live) Listen: "Good Sex" (Live)

New Music Friday - July 8, 2022

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	AJ Lambert - Dirt Soda Watch: "Staff of the Flag" Watch: "How Many"
	Metric - Formentera Watch: "All Comes Crashing" Watch: "Doomscroller"
	Party Dozen - The Real Work Watch: "Macca the Mutt" (featuring Nick Cave) Watch: "The Worker"
	Quinton Brock - My Shadow Watch: "My Shadow" Watch: "Touch"

Other Full-Length Releases

Delicate Steve - After Hours Watch: "Street Breeze" Watch: "Playing in a Band"

Laura Veirs - Found Light Watch: "Winter Windows" Watch: "Seaside Haiku"

Spiral Stairs - Medley Attack!! Watch: "Pressure Drop [End of the Hurricane]" Listen: "Too Late"

Viagra Boys - Cave World Watch: "Big Boy" (featuring Jason Williamson) Watch: "Ain’t No Thief"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

La Luz - "Endless Afternoon"/"San Fernando Shadow Blues" Listen: "Endless Afternoon" Listen: "San Fernando Shadow Blues"

Wet - Pink Room Watch: "Turn the Lights Down Low" Listen: "Pink Room"

New Music Friday - January 27, 2017

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in This Town Allison Crutchfield is the twin sister of Katie Crutchfield, who performs as Waxahatchee, and a former member of Swearin'. The band broke up in 2015 following Crutchfield's breakup with the band's guitarist, and she started her solo career. Tourist in This Town is her first record. On the album, she reflects on the end of the relationship and the band. Lyrically and creatively, she comes into her own, distinguishing herself from both her former band and her sister. Watch: "I Don’t Ever Want to Leave California" Watch: "Dean’s Room"

Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life Japandroids are strangely quiet between records. They'll put out a short, hard-rocking, much-celebrated record, tour a little bit, then go quiet. The silence between records creates a fear, in me at least, that perhaps the band is no more. Those fears started to crack back in August when the band announced a few shows in the later part of the year. As expected, an album announcement soon followed. It's as good as their first two, let's just hope we don't wait another five years for the next. Listen: "Arc of Bar" Listen: "Near to the Wild Heart of Life"

Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness Not Even Happiness is the second album from Julie Byrne, who released Rooms with Walls and Windows in 2014. Her style is a throwback to 1970s folk and has earned her comparisons to older artists like Joni Mitchell, as well as some contemporaries, including Weyes Blood. Her music is calm and serene, perfect for cold winter nights indoors (though we don't seem to be getting many of those lately). Listen: "Follow My Voice" Listen: "I Live Now As a Singer"

Kehlani - SweetSexySavage The beginning of last year was a tough time for Kehlani; following a break up with Kyrie Irving, and a less than positive public reaction to the circumstances of that relationship's end, she found herself hospitalized after an attempt at self-harm. The back half of the year was a sharp contrast to that. She went on a creative streak, releasing five singles, almost all with videos, including one for the Suicide Squad soundtrack. Several of those tracks also appear on her debut album. Watch: "CRZY" Watch: "Distraction"

Matt Martians - The Drum Chord Theory Matt Martians is part of the Odd Future sub-group The Internet. He seems to be trying pre-empt bandmate Syd's debut album (released February 3) with a debut release of his own. The album dabbles in neo soul, jazz, experimental, and psychedelic sounds. It also, as is common with Odd Future albums, features contributions from other members of the group, including Steve Lacy and Syd. Watch: "Dent Jusay" (featuring Syd & Steve Lacy) Listen: "Diamond in Da Ruff"

Other Full-Length Releases

Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sounds Watch: "Modern Act" Watch: "Internal World"

Delicate Steve - This Is Steve Watch: "Winners" Watch: "Cartoon Rock"

Fancey - Love Mirage Listen: "Dream All Night" Listen: "Baby Sunshine"

Fred Thomas - Changer Watch: "Voiceover" Listen: "Brickwall"

Miles Mosley - UPRISING Listen: "Abraham" Listen: "Young Lion"

P.O.S. - Chill, dummy Watch: "Lanes" Listen: "Wearing a Bear"

Sloppy Heads - Useless Smile Listen: "Always Running"

Stef Chura - Messes Watch: "Spotted Gold" Watch: "Slow Motion"

Ty Segall - Ty Segall Listen: "Break a Guitar" Listen: "Orange Color Queen"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

The Avalanches - Since I Left You Reissue Watch: "Since I Left You" Listen: "Stay Another Season"

Banana - LIVE

Cate Le Bon - Rock Pool Watch: "Rock Pool"

D∆WN - Infrared Deluxe Listen: "Paint It Blue" (Rizzla Remix)

Major Lazer - "Run Up" Watch: "Run Up" (featuring PARTYNEXTDOOR & Nicki Minaj)

Sleater-Kinney - Live in Paris Listen: "Surface Envy"

Weyes Blood & Ariel Pink - Myths 002 Listen: "Tears on Fire" Listen: "On Another Day"

New Music Friday - August 26, 2016

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Banks & Steelz - Anything but Words Most hip-hop collaborations tend to be with R&B artists, but in recent years RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan has been more interested in working with artists of the indie variety. In 2013, he was featured on James Blake's "Take a Fall for Me." Now, he's partnered up with Interpol's Paul Banks for a new project. Banks himself has gotten involved in hip-hop, even releasing his own mixtape in 2013. Neither artist strays far from their milieu on this; it's a pretty straight combo of Interpol and RZA. Watch: "Giant" Watch: "Love + War" (featuring Ghostface Killah)

Cass McCombs - Mangy Love Cass McCombs keeps himself pretty busy; he released a pair of spectacular albums in 2011, followed those up in 2013 and, just last year, released a collection of older recordings, A Folk Set Apart. He's back this year with more new music. His eighth album pulls from a variety of styles and features vocals from another favorite, Angel Olsen. Watch: "Medusa’s Outhouse" Watch: "Run Sister Run"

De La Soul - And the Anonymous Nobody De La Soul haven't released a proper album since 2004's The Grind Date. There was a side project, First Serve, from two members in 2012, but I'm not sure how that fits within their broader discography. The newest album sees them all back together and back to form, reminding fans what made them so great in the first place. Listen: "Pain" (featuring Snoop Dogg) Listen: "Royalty Capes"

Katy Goodman & Greta Morgan - Take It, It’s Yours Katy Goodman, formerly of Vivian Girls, has been active as a solo artist, under the name La Sera, since 2010. For her latest record, she is performing under her own name and partnering up with Greta Morgan, who has performed with The Hush Sound, Gold Motel, and Springtime Carnivore. On their collaborative album, they perform covers of songs originally performed by punk and new waves artists, including Billy Idol, Blondie, and the Stooges. Watch: "Ever Fallen in Love" Watch: "Sex Beat"

Other Full-Length Releases

The Album Leaf - Between Waves Watch: "Between Waves" Watch: "New Soul"

Cassius - Ibifornia Watch: "Action" (featuring Cat Power & Mike D) Watch: "The Missing" (featuring Ryan Tedder & Jaw)

Magic Trick - Other Man’s Blues Listen: "Oysters" Listen: "Eternal Summer"

Mild High Club - Skiptracing Listen: "Skiptracing" Listen: "Homage"

The Veils - Total Depravity Watch: "Axolotl" (featuring El-P) Listen: "Total Depravity"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION: B-Sides Listen: "Cry" Listen: "First Time"

Charlotte Day Wilson - CDW Listen: "Find You" Listen: "Where Do You Go"

Delicate Steve - "Winners" Listen: "Winners"

Jon Hopkins - Opalescent Reissue Listen: "Opalescent" Listen: "Halcyon"

Junior Boys - Kiss Me All Night Listen: "Kiss Me All Night" Listen: "Yes"

Lowell - Part 1: PARIS YK Watch: "High Enough" Listen: "West Coast Forever"

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Listen: Florence + The Machine - "Wish That You Were Here"

Porches - Water Watch: "Car" Watch: "Black Dress"

Prophets of Rage - The Party’s Over Watch: "Prophets of Rage" Listen: "The Party’s Over"

Roadies: Music from the Showtime Original Series Listen: Nicole Atkins - "A Little Crazy" Listen: My Morning Jacket - "The First Time"

Sporting Life - Slam Dunk Vol. 1 Watch: "Hydrate the Hustle" Listen: "Kill That Shout"

Vince Staples - Prima Donna EP Watch: "Prima Donna" Listen: "Big Time"

XOXO (Music from the Netflix Original Film) Listen: Michael Brun - "All I Ever Wanted" Listen: Yotto - "Song from the Sun"