Courtney Barnett, Night Talks, Gladie, Headfirst, Out In Front bring the new music

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Courtney Barnett - Stay In Your Lane - Four years after Things Take Time, Take Time, a new single that NME says "is propelled by a raucous guitar riff and Barnett’s signature drawl."
• Night Talks - Shadows On The Run - Melodic Mag says the latest single from this LA band "is full of energy from the get-go with whirling synths and heavily distorted guitars."
• Gladie - Car Alarm - "I hope what comes along with the song is that even with the bad there are still glimmers of hope in there," says the Philadelphia band's leader, Augusta Koch. 
• Headfirst - Ordinary Love - From an upcoming live album by a Dutch band that describes its music as "sixties songwriting with a nineties sound."
• Out In Front - fLoAT - From the LA trio's self-released debut EP, Straight Up To Space. Lead singer Madie Renner says the song "represents the feeling of wanting to escape your past and let go of things that no longer serve you."

New music by Mavis Staples, Silversun Pickups, Snocaps, The Gold Needles, Kilowatt Parade

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Mavis Staples - Chicago - From Sad and Beautiful World comes this cover of a song by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan about a family migrating from a stagnant countryside to a strange city. The band includes Buddy Guy and Derek Trucks, with Sam Beam on backing vocals. 
• Silversun Pickups - The Wreckage - The first single from the Los Angeles quartet's upcoming LP Tenterhooks, due in February.
• Snocaps - Brand New City - Snocaps is a new project from sister musician/singers Allison and Katie (Waxahatchee) Crutchfield, joined by MJ Lenderman and producer Brad Cook, who plays bass on this track.
• The Gold Needles - Crescent Moon - This Burbank band brings a very California sound to this track from Mood Elevator, coming out in December.
• Kilowatt Parade - Bargain Perfume - The latest single from the project of Ottawa songwriter Andre Nault.

Inhaler, Arkells, Brandi Carlile, Terra Lightfoot and more Goose added to our big mix

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Inhaler - Hole In The Ground - The single comes less than a year after the Irish band's Open Wide album.
• Arkells - What Good? - The first taste of the Ontario band's next album, coming in 2026.
• Brandi Carlile - Human - A track from the new album Returning To Myself
• Terra Lightfoot - Already There In My Mind - From Home Front, an album written and recorded in Lightfoot's peaceful home in the woods.
• Goose - Madelena - We wanted to pull one more track from Chain Yer Dragon before it got too old to be called "new music." 

Catching up with the latest tracks added to our New Music Bin

We've fallen behind in blog-posting about the latest tunes added to our Marvelous Mix. But here are the songs currently in our top-of-the-hour New Music rotation:

• Mumford & Sons - Rubber Band Man (with Hozier)
• The Strumbellas - Come Back Around
• Faded Paper Figures - Out of Control
• Foo Fighters - Asking for a Friend
• The Beths - Roundabout





• Flock of Dimes - Keep Me In The Dark
• John Gorka - No Time to Cry
• Spoon - Guess I'm Falling In Love
• Tame Impala - Afterthought
• Don't Believe in Ghosts - Outta Your Head





• Trombone Shorty - Line Em Up
• Lights - Education
• Wolf Alice - Passenger Seat
• Shayla McDaniel - Wild Dreamer
• Modern Dandelion - Always

New Marcus King, Alice Merton, Almost Monday, reissued Emmylou Harris and reunited Strawberry Alarm Clock

Marcus King Band - Carolina Honey

After a couple of solo albums, Marcus King has put his band back together and brought in some guests for Darling Blue, his first full-band album since 2018.

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Alice Merton - Ignorance Is Bliss

This is the lead single for the German-Canadian-British artist's third studio album, Visions, due in January. "I wrote this song with the mindset of ignoring the outside voices and focusing on what I think I can do with my life."

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Almost Monday - Lost

The San Diego trio says its latest single is "about escapism and finding yourself by leaving what you know behind and opening yourself to the possibilities of the future.

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Emmylou Harris - Deeper Well

We're cheating a bit by putting a 27-year-old recording in the New Music Bin. It's from an upcoming re-issue of the 1998 live album Spyboy.

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Strawberry Alarm Clock - Monsters

Yes, it's THAT Strawberry Alarm Clock, best known for 1967's "Incense and Peppermints." They reunited and put out an album in 2012, and recently signed with Big Stir Records. An album is in the works, but this track is being released early as part of a Halloween compilation.

New music from Yukon Blonde, Sloan, Goose, Tune-Yards, Robert Plant

Yukon Blonde: Phaedra

We pull another cool track from Friendship & Rock 'n' Roll, the latest album from the group from British Columbia.

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Sloan: Dream Destroyer

The veteran Canadian indie-rockers just released their 14th album, Based on the Best Seller.

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Goose: Hot Love & the Lazy Poet

Here's another selection from the Connecticut jam band's second album of 2025: Chain Yer Dragon. The track is their first studio recording of a song that's been in their live shows for years.

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Tune-Yards: Sand Into Stone

While Goose released two full albums this year, Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner put out one and a half. This is from the new EP Tell The Future With Your Body.

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Robert Plant: Everybody's Song

This is a cover of a 20-year-old song by the band Low. It's from Plant's new album Saving Grace, which is also the name of the band he put together for the project, featuring vocalist Suzi Dian.

Alabama Shakes, Nation of Language, Sea Lemon, Spoon, Big Thief - our latest New Music picks

NOTE: It's totally a coincidence that two of our New Music picks of the week have "Another Life" in their titles!

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Alabama Shakes: Another Life

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A decade after Sound and Color, Brittany Howard rejoins bassist Zac Cockrell and guitarist Heath Fogg on this new song and on tour. Their next album is in the works.

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Nation of Language: In Another Life

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We've been spinning the singles "Inept Apollo" and "I'm Not Ready For The Change," and with the release of the LP Dance Called Memory we now adding selection. Critics have called the album both "fresh, upbeat and lively" and "intimate, introspective, dark."

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Sea Lemon: Stay

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We take a dip into the debut LP from the Seattle-based project of Natalie Lew, Diving for a Prize. New Noise Magazine calls it "a shoegaze, dream pop album with atmospheric power to shake rain from the clouds."

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Spoon: Chateau Blues

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As the band works on its next album, it decided to roll out two of its new songs as a "double-sided single." We took the 45 out of its sleeve and flipped it, and it landed with this track on top. The other, "Guess I'm Fallin In Love," will pop up in our mix, too.

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Big Thief: Words

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With the release of the Brooklyn band's sixth full-length, Double Infinity, we pick out another fine track and drop it into our New Music Bin.

Our latest picks: David Byrne, Trombone Shorty, St. Etienne, Planet Smasher, Jacob's Run

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David Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra: What Is The Reason For It?

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With the release of Who Is The Sky? we pick another of its ebullient tracks for our New Music Bin. This one features vocals by Hayley Williams of Paramore. Byrne says it's "a love song, or at least it’s asking what is love, what it’s about?" 

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Trombone Shorty & New Breed Brass Band: Good Time

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Released twenty years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the new album Second Line Sunday is billed as a reflection on culture and tradition, on family and community, on survival and resilience." Mostly it's joyous, and it's pretty much impossible to sit still when listening to any of its ten tracks.  

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Saint Etienne: Glad

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Continuing the upbeat mood, this is the opening track from International, the twelfth album from the U.K. trio of Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs, and Sarah Cracknell. They've said it will be their last. AllMusic says this number "booms out of the speakers with huge drums, thumping bass, and jangling guitars in a style very reminiscent of some of the band's early work, while coming across very fresh and shiny."

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Planet Smashers: Things You Do

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We previously featured "Wasted Tomorrows" from this Montreal punk-ska band's new LP On The Dancefloor, and we're dipping in again for another dose.

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Jacob's Run: She's Not That Mean

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OK, so it's the umpteenth song to use the "down on my knees/begging you please" rhyme, and if the lyrics are telling a story we're not getting it. (How mean is she, then?) But the second single from the upcoming second album by this Melbourne indie-rock trio is a fun listen. Lead singer-guitarist Michael Jacobs says the band "wanted the chorus to sound like a throwback to the ’60s - a-la The Monkees, Mamas and Papas - those really rich interweaving harmonies where no one voice is prominent."

New music from The Beths, Flyte, Lauren Mann, Next Week's Washing, Don't Believe in Ghosts

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The Beths: Straight Line Was A Lie

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Here's the title track from the New Zealand band's just-released fourth album. Nothing has been proven more effective against Music Boredom than Birch Street Radio. It's unsurpassed! Use only as directed. Possible side effects include altering your mood, distracting you from what you should be doing, and causing flashbacks to the first time you heard that song. Our musical variety program is produced Birch Street Studios in Beautiful Downtown Suburbia and streamed 24/7 from Canada by TorontoCast and in the USA by Live365.

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Flyte: Alabaster (feat. Aimee Mann)

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We weren't familiar with Flyte, the UK indie-folk duo of Nick Hill and Will Taylor, but we're long-time fans of Aimee Mann, so this collaboration caught our attention. It's from Between You And Me, the upcoming fourth Flyte LP. Under The Radar mag writes: "The band’s typically feather-light acoustics are anchored by simmering fuzz guitar and prominent basslines ... [T]he lyrics explore a love affair that is doomed to implode."

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Lauren Mann: Different Light

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We're very happy to get new music from this self-described songwriter-musician-island adventurer from Pender Island, B.C. She's releasing an EP called Heaven in late September. Mann describes it as "an intimate collection of songs brought together through expansive journeys of finding home, blossoming into motherhood and navigating personal growth through it all." (It's strictly coincidental that this week's New Music picks include two women with the last name Mann.)

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Next Week's Washing: Empty Pages

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Here's the latest of a series of singles from this emerging Toronto trio, formed last year by Rhys Newman and brothers Miles and Julian Duffy. Canadian Beats writes: "Drawing on elements of shoegaze, Britpop, and alternative rock, the track combines a nostalgic emotionality with forward-looking sonic ambition – pairing shimmering walls of guitar with front-and-centre, harmony-laced vocals."

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Don't Believe in Ghosts: Driver

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This New York City band will release But On The Bright Side in November. Steven Nathan (vocals), Dan DelVecchio (guitar) and Ken Yang (drums) worked on it over two years across multiple studios in Nashville, Cleveland and New York. Vocalist Steven Nathan says this first single "is about living in the moment ... a colorful track filled with a lot of energy."

Florence + The Machine, Goose, Night Talks and much more added to our New Music bin

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Florence + The Machine: Everybody Scream

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Has there ever been a song so clearly designed to whip a concert crowd into a frenzy? This is the title track from the band's upcoming sixth studio album. Florence Welch is known for her near-manic live performances, dancing wildly around the stage, and in this song she acknowledges both the rush she gets from her audiences and the toll it takes on her: "Look at me run myself ragged, blood on the stage / But how can I leave you when you’re screaming my name?" Compare: "It's Only Rock & Roll (But I Like It)"

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Goose: Royal

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Surprise! Just four months after April's Everything Must Go, the jammers from Connecticut released another album, Chain Your Dragon, in August. The band has played most of its 12 songs live over the years, but this is a new number, which the band says is about "a transient musician whose burning ambition threatens to get the best of him.”

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Night Talks: Targets

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It's good to see this LA indie band getting more recognition - including East Coast tour dates in September. This new single features additional guitar work by Cory Wong. The group's firecracker lead vocalist, Soraya Sebghati, sings of trying to shake feelings of paranoia: "I've got a target on my back ... It's not real you said / It's in my head." 

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And Many More!

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We took a bit of a summer break from adding new releases and posting about them. But now we've refreshed the New Music bin with the three tracks described above - and a dozen more!

• Wolf Alice: White Horses
• Sheryl Crow: The New Normal
• Almost Monday: Enjoy the Ride
• Alkaline Trio: Oblivion
• Cult of Venus: Sinner
• Kathleen Edwards: When The Truth Comes Out
• Rohin: Sundown
• The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers
• Planet Smashers: Wasted Tomorrows
• Bob Moses: Last Forever
• Krooked Tongue: Dog Days
• Pony Gold: Big in the City

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Latest from Sheryl Crow, Stereolab, Nilufer Yanya, The Technicolors, Sunrise in Jupiter

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Sheryl Crow: See You On The Other Side

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This is one of two new singles from Crow and her longtime touring band, The Real Lowdown. Here she seems to be channeling a god who can't understand why his people find it so hard "to let love win."

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Stereolab: Aerial Troubles

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Instant Holograms On Metal Film is the first album in 15 years from this UK band that went dormant around 2010. Founders and former couple Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier brought their "groop" back together for a 2019 tour and that led to this recording. Under The Radar says "Stereolab’s sound remains unmistakable, yet newly expansive. ... [T]he music fuses elements of Krautrock, lounge jazz, psychedelic pop, and minimalism."

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Nilufer Yanya: Cold Heart 

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The London artist follows up last year's My Method Actor LP with a new EP, Dancing Shoes. It consists of four songs that were held back from that album and then reworked.

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The Technicolors feat. Madison Cunningham: First Class to Nowhere

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We haven't been familiar with the band from Phoenix, but reviews of this track from their upcoming album Heavy Pulp say it marks a shift to a softer, more introspective sound than their previous releases. (Chalk up one more collab outing for the ubiquitous Madison Cunningham.)

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Sunrise in Jupiter: Take Me Home

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This London rock group's upcoming first album will be a double-LP entitled Mission to Mars. It's billed as cinematic rock exploring "profound themes of exploration, separation, and destiny." An ambitious debut, no?

Jeff Tweedy, Joe Bonamassa, The Strumbellas, Goose, Suzanne Vega in our New Music bin

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Jeff Tweedy: Enough

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The Wilco frontman newest project is a 30-track (!) album, Twilight Override, arriving in late-September. With the announcement of the longggg-player came four tracks, of which this is the most upbeat, despite melancholy lyrics: "Has it ever been enough? / Has it ever been OK?"

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Joe Bonamassa: Drive By The Exit Sign

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The veteran blues-rocker just released Breakthrough, his first album since 2021's prog-influenced Time Clocks. He returns to his shorter, tighter, songwriting on this outing, writes Rock and Blues Muse, which calls this track "a spark-plug igniting inclusion enhanced by soulful backing female vocals."

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The Strumbellas: Hard Lines

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There's no word on whether the release of this new single means that an album is on its way. It would be the Ontario group's sixth, following last year's Part Time Believer. But we won't be the ones to ask. After all, the band says this is a "a song about keeping up with pressure and expectations."

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Goose: Dustin Hoffman

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We pull another plum from Everything Must Go, the Connecticut jam band's latest studio release. It's one of just a handful of songs to appear on the album before being heard in concert. Glide Magazine calls it one of the record's standout moments. "Starting as a funky ’70s strut, the track seamlessly shifts to an adult-contemporary-infused chorus teeming with ’90s-inspired horn arrangements courtesy of an impressive brass trio led by a longtime collaborator, saxophonist Stuart Bogie." (The song's title supposedly was inspired by the actor of the same name, but the lyrics have nothing to do with him.)

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Suzanne Vega: Alley

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We return to another of this spring's releases to pick another track for our New Music Bin. The singer says this is a song "about transcending life's difficulties and seeking sanctuary somewhere."