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Saturday, May 3, 2025

New Music Friday - May 2, 2025

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars Watch: "Gethsemane" Watch: "CCF (I’m Gonna Stay with You)"
	Carriers - Every Time I Feel Afraid Watch: "Sometimes" Watch: "Blurry Eyes"
	Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist Watch: "To be a rose" Watch: "The artist is absent"
	Mei Semones - Animaru Watch: "I can do what I want" Watch: "Animaru"
	Thanya Iyer - TIDE/TIED Watch: "Low Tides" Watch: "I am here now"

Other Full-Length Releases

Esther Rose - Want

Watch: "New Bad"
Watch: "Had To"

James Krivchenia - Performing Belief

Watch: "Bracelets for Unicorns" (with Sam Wilkes & Joshua Abrams)
Watch: "Probably Wizards" (with Sam Wilkes)

Jolie Laide - Creatures

Watch: "No Shape I Know"
Watch: "Holly"

Lael Neale - Altogether Stranger

Watch: "Tell Me How to Be Here"
Watch: "Down on the Freeway"

Låpsley - I’M A HURRICANE I’M A WOMAN IN LOVE

Watch: "HURRICANE"
Watch: "WOMAN LIKE THAT"

Lucius - Lucius

Watch: "Final Days"
Watch: "Old Tape" (featuring Adam Granduciel)

Pet Symmetry - Big Symmetry

Watch: "Big Mileage"
Watch: "Big Wish"

Paco Cathcart - Down on Them

Listen: "Bottleneck Blues"
Listen: "Oh, Joy"

PUP - Who Will Look After the Dogs?

Watch: "Hallways"
Watch: "Get Dumber" (featuring Jeff Rosenstock)

Pyramids - Pythagoras

Watch: "Pretty Pigs"
Watch: "Fools Gold (Mi Vida Ha Ido Pa Atras)"

Real Bad Man & Boldy James - Conversational Pieces

Watch: "Come Back Around" (featuring Dreamcastmoe)
Listen: "Conversational Pieces"

Suzzallo - The Quiet Year

Watch: "River"
Listen: "Tsunami Waves" (featuring Ben Gibbard)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Benny the Butcher - Excelsior

Watch: "Duffel Bag Hottie’s Revenge" (featuring Boldy James)
Listen: "Sign Language"

Eli Winter - A Trick of the Light

Watch: "For a Fallen Rocket"
Watch: "Cracking the Jaw"

Flume & JPEGMAFIA - We Live in a Society

Watch: "Track 1"
Listen: "The Ocean Is Fake"

Real Estate - The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides and Other Detritus 2011-2025

Watch: "Pink Sky"
Listen: "Barely Legal"

Say Sue Me - Time Is Not Yours

Watch: "Vacation" (featuring Kim Hanjoo)
Listen: "In This Mess"

Selena Gomez, benny blanco - I Said I Love You First… And You Said It Back

Watch: "Talk"
Watch: "Guess You Could Say I'm in Love"

Saturday, April 20, 2019

New Music Friday - April 5, 2019

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Fémina - Perlas & Conchas

Fémina are a hip hop and folk trio from Argentina. They got their start, and their name, with the realization that there wasn't much female representation in their music scene. Their third album includes a feature from Iggy Pop.

Watch: "Resist" (featuring Iggy Pop)
Watch: "Plumas"

Ioanna Gika - Thalassa

Ioanna Gika is the frontwoman for the indie band Io echo, who have been releasing music since 2010. This is her first record as a solo artist.

Watch: "Out of Focus"
Watch: "Roseate"

Khalid - Free Spirit

Khalid came onto the scene at 18 years old with the song "Location." He released his debut album, American Teen, a year later in 2017. He's already had several hits, and looks to be continuing that success on this record, with lead single "Talk" performing well on the charts.

Watch: "Talk"
Watch: "Free Spirit"

Priests - The Seduction of Kansas

Priests is a post-punk band out of DC who released their debut album, Nothing Feels Natural, in 2017. The recorded their follow-up with celebrated produced John Congleton.

Watch: "Good Time Charlie"
Watch: "Jesus’ Son"

Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

Titanic Rising is the fourth album from this artist, also known as Natalie Mering, and follows her spectacular 2016 album, Front Row Seat to Earth. Her baroque pop leanings are on full display on this record, and in the self-directed video for "Everyday."

Watch: "Andromeda"
Watch: "Everyday"

Other Full-Length Releases

Charlotte Cornfield - The Shape of Your Name

Watch: "Andrew"
Watch: "Silver Civic"

Control Top - Covert Contracts

Listen: "Chain Reaction"
Listen: "Covert Contracts"

Dessner-Labèque - El Chan

Listen: "3. Four Winds"
Listen: "Haven"

The Drums - Brutalism

Watch: "Body Chemistry"
Listen: "626 Bedford Avenue"

Guided By Voices - Warp and Woof

Listen: "Angelic Weirdness"
Listen: "Cohesive Scoops"

Patio - Essentials

Listen: "Boy Scout"
Listen: "New Reality"

PUP - Morbid Stuff

Watch: "Kids"
Watch: "Free at Last"

Ratso - Stubborn Heart

Listen: "Our Lady of Light" (featuring Nick Cave)
Listen: "I Want Everything" (featuring Yasmine Hamdan)

Rose Elinor Dougall - A New Illusion

Listen: "First Sign"
Listen: "Take What You Can Get"

Rozi Plain - What a Boost

Watch: "Symmetrical"
Watch: "Conditions"

Shana Cleveland - Night of the Worm Moon

Watch: "Face of the Sun"
Watch: "Don’t Let Me Sleep"

Sonny & The Sunsets - Hairdressers from Heaven

Watch: "Hairdressers from Heaven"
Listen: "A Bigger Picture"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

High Life (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Watch: tindersticks - "Willow" (featuring Robert Pattison)
Listen: stuart A. staples - "The Yellow Light"

New Order - Movement Definitive Edition

Listen: "Mesh" (Cargo Demo)
Listen: "Homage" (Western Works Demo)

Partner - Saturday the 14th

Watch: "Long & McQuade"
Listen: "Les ailes d'un ange"

Monday, July 4, 2016

New Music Friday - May 27, 2016

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate

Kristin Welchez (née Gundred, aka Dee Dee) is primarily known for the Dum Dum Girls, a band for whom she has been the frontwoman since 2008. This year, she's breaking out on her own under the name Kristin Kontrol. Taking inspiration from a number of female musicians from the 80s and 90s, it's meant to be a non-genre-specific record, and serves as a way for her to reclaim her artistic identity.

Listen: "X-Communicate"
Listen: "Show Me"

Leyla McCalla - A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey

Leyla McCalla is an American-born singer and cellist of Haitian descent. She was a member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, but left to start her solo career. Her first album, Vari-Colored Songs, was a tribute to Langston Hughes, consisting of interpretations of his poems. The follow-up album continues on the same themes from her debut, though without the Hughes poems as the starting point.

Watch: "A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey"
Listen: "Little Sparrow"

Maria Usbeck - Amparo

Usbeck is also stepping away from a band to begin a solo project. She was formerly the lead singer of Selebrities. Though she's of Ecuadorian descent, she's never sung in her native Spanish. Her solo debut is also her first Spanish-language album. The album was co-produced by Chairlift's Caroline Polachek.

Watch: "Uno De Tus Ojos"
Watch: "Moai Y Yo"

Olga Bell - Tempo

Olga Bell is a Russian-born American composer and musician who has performed with Chairlift and Dirty Projectors. For her third album she is turning her talents towards electronic music. The album follows her 2014 Russian-language album, Krai, and last year's Incitation EP.

Watch: "Randomness"
Watch: "ATA"

Yumi Zouma - Yoncalla

Yumi Zouma is a band out of New Zealand, fronted by Christie Simpson, and this is their debut album. The album incorporates a variety of pop styles, from 70s-style disco pop to the goth pop of fellow Kiwi Lorde.

Listen: "Keep It Close to Me"
Listen: "Barricade (Matter of Fact)"

Other Full-Length Releases