Brown/Martin/Browne, Elizabeth And The Catapult, Courtney Barnett, Peter Gabriel, Blu Beach Band

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Alison Brown & Steve Martin feat. Jackson Browne & Jeff Hanna - "Dear Time" - From the banjo artists' new album Safe, Sensible and Sound comes this sentimental song about the passage of time. The duo recruited Browne for lead and Hanna for backup vocals.
• Elizabeth And The Catapult - "Responsible Friend" - Singer-songwriter Elizabeth Ziman says this song "is actually about being pretty irresponsible ... about hitting on a friend when you know you probably shouldn't."
• Courtney Barnett - "Mantis" - Named for a preying mantis that appeared at her door, this song is "the microcosmic centerpiece" of Creature of Habit. "It’s a song about searching, and it helped me find my way" in writing the album, Barnett says.
• Peter Gabriel - "Till Your Mind Is Shining (Dark-Side Mix)" - Gabriel continues to release tracks from o/i with each full moon. He calls this one "probably the poppiest."
• Blu Beach Band - "Rock Band" - This Saskatchewan indie-rock outfit sings about "the chaos and charm of life in a working band." Best line: "I can’t pay the rent in good exposure."

Flea on trumpet, The New Pornographers, Stereolab, Snail Mail, U2 - New music variety

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Flea - Traffic Lights (feat. Tom Yorke) - The Chili Peppers bassist switches to his first love, jazz trumpet, on his first solo album, Honora. Most tracks are instrumentals, but this one features Radiohead's vocalist. 
• The New Pornographers - Ballad of the Last Payphone - Another cut from the just-released The Former Site Of. Paste calls the LP melancholy, with a lyrical theme of "staring down the current state of the world."
• Stereolab - Cloud Land - One of a pair of new tracks just released by the London band. Stereogum calls it "a vast epic with awesomely wormy synths and cool percussive breaks."  
• Snail Mail - Tractor Beam - From Ricochet, the third album from Lindsey Jordan's project. She says this song uses "alien abduction as a metaphor for lost time because of disassociation."
• U2 - Song of the Future - This song from the protest EP Days of Ash honors 16-year-old Sarina Esmailzadeh, an Iranian schoolgirl fatally beaten by security forces after taking part in a Woman, Life, Freedom demonstration in 2022.

Brand-new from Tedeschi Trucks Band, Muse, gladie, Death Cab for Cutie, Paper Crown

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Tedeschi Trucks Band - Crazy Cryin' - We've been spinning the singles "Who Am I" and "I Got You," and now with the release of Future Soul, we're featuring the lead-off track.
• Muse - Be With You - The band's 10th album, The WOW! Signal, has themes of cosmic mystery and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Yet the refrain that gives this song its title is simply romantic. 
• gladie - I Want That For You - Philadelphia's Augusta Koch sounds almost happy on this track from her band's newest LP, which takes it's title from the song's last line: No Need To Be Lonely. 
• Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides - On the other hand, Ben Gibbard sounds world-weary on this slow-building song. It's the first single ahead of June's release of I Built You A Tower. 
• Paper Crown - Four Leaf Clover - We pick another track for the New Music Bin from the just-released Letters, by Norway's guitarist Ørnulv Snortheim and vocalist Johanne Kippersund.  .

Collabs by Courtney Barnett/Waxahatchee, Arkells/Grouplove, Lost Leaders/Amy Helm, plus Brooke Annibale, The Legal Matters

Photos by Ben Kaye, Consequence of Sound

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Courtney Barnett - Site Unseen (feat. Waxahatchee) - The Australian singer-songwriter teams up Katie Crutchfield, aka Waxahatchee, on this track from Barnett's upcoming album Creature of Habit.
• Arkells, Grouplove - Ride - The band from Hamilton, Ont., invited the group from LA to join them on this latest single to spin out from Arkell's Between Us LP, due next month. 
• Lost Leaders feat. Amy Helm - Atalanta - Lost Leaders Byron Isaacs and Peter Cole created the soundtrack for an indie film, Run, about a woman running a marathon amid personal turmoil. They recruited Helm for this song, named for a swift-footed Greek mythological huntress.
• Brooke Annibale - My Favorite Part - The Rhode Island-based indie singer-songwriter released this single a couple of weeks ago as she wrapped up Kickstarter fundraising for her next album. Killer lyric: "I broke my heart so I wouldn't break yours."
• The Legal Matters - It Doesn't Matter - We recently featured "The Message" from this Michigan indie-pop band, and here's another track from their new album, Lost At Sea.

The New Pornographers, Adult Leisure, Digsby, The Blue Herons, Sam Fender + Olivia Dean

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Sam Fender and Olvia Dean - Rein Me In - A remake of a song from Fender's People Watching LP, with Dean contributing a new verse as well as her vocal.
• The New Pornographers - Spooky Action - The third track to spin out ahead of the upcoming album The Former Site Of.
• Adult Leisure - The Light You Attract - This single is the follow-up to the Bristol, UK, band's 2025 debut album, The Things You Don't Know Yet.
• Digsby - Long Time Dead - Also hailing from Bristol, this group just released its debut album, Death of the Party. This song is a reminder to live for today because you'll spend a long time, well, not living.
• The Blue Herons - Fight or Flight - A single from the upcoming album Demon Slayer by the transatlantic dreampop duo of Andy Jossi (Switzerland) and Gretchen DeVault (USA).