Tedeschi Trucks & Mad Dogs, Drop Kick Murphys, All Time Low, James and the Cold Gun, Big Thief

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Tedeschi Trucks Band: The Letter (Live at Lockn' 2015)

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Ten years ago at a festival in Virginia, TTB and Leon Russell celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour with a tribute concert. The 12-member band and the iconic blues-rock pianist (who passed away the following year) were joined by some original members of the Mad Dogs ensemble, such as Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, and Chris Stainton, plus guests including Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes, Warren Haynes, Anders Osborne, and Dave Mason. This track is the first taste of an album compiled from that show, to be released in September. What took so long?

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Drop Kick Murphys: Who'll Stand With Us?

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This single from the Boston band's new album, For The People, is a protest anthem that ties the current socio-political situation in the U.S. to historic inequality and exploitation. "The working people fuel the engine / While you yank the chain." The song's video depicts immigrant workers being abducted, and then uses the same imagery for people being cut off from health and other benefits. Lead singer Ken Casey says, “We’ve always had the same message and haven’t been afraid to speak out about what’s important to us.." (Photo credit: @Chezphoto / Riley Vecchione)

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All Time Low: The Weather

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It's been 20 years since this band, formed by high school classmates in Towson, Maryland, released its first album - and now it's rolling out its tenth studio LP, Everyone's Talking!, due in October. This track is billed as "Ramones-toasting pop-rock." Lead singer Alex Gaskarth calls it a "a cynical but playful" song about running into an ex and, rather than delving into the past, talking about trivial matters. "I won't ask you how you've been / 'Cause we might just fall back in / So we talk about the weather."

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James and the Cold Gun: Above The Lake

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This group from Cardiff calls itself "the loudest in South Wales" (which seems to have confused some people into thinking they're from Australia's New South Wales instead of the U.K.). This track is from the band's second LP, Face In The Mirror. Frontman James Joseph says: "We’re massive rock fans. If you look at 90 per cent of the bands on rock playlists right now, though, they don’t always sound like rock. You can barely hear a guitar, and everything is super polished. We found ourselves wanting to hear new music that had the guts to keep things messy and as real as possible, so we made it ourselves.” (Photo credit: Luke Shadrick)

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Big Thief: All Night All Day

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Here's the second single to emerge from Double Infinity, the sixth album by the Brooklyn band featuring the tremulous voice of Adrianne Lenker and bandmates Buck Meek and James Krivchenia. "Swallow poison, swallow sugar / Sometimes they taste thе same / But I know your love is neithеr / And love is just a name."

New music in our mix: Turnstile, Splitsville, Kathleen Edwards, Sunflower Bean, Royel Otis

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Turnstile: Seein' Stars

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When we picked up "I Care" from the new LP, Never Enough, we wrote that Brendan Yates's lead vocal reminded us a bit of Sting. And we find ourselves agreeing with those who say this track sounds like it could be a lost Police recording. Which is fine by us. Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Dev Hynes (a.k.a. Blood Orange) contribute vocals on this track, although they don't stand out in the mix.

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Splitsville: A Glorious Lie

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Here's another group that, like Turnstile, hails from Baltimore. But they haven't released new music in a couple of decades. Now they're out with Mobtown, which includes this song whose intriguing lyrics relate (we are told) to a 1926 visit to Baltimore by Queen Marie of Romania.

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Kathleen Edwards: Say Goodbye, Tell No One

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We pull another track from Billionaire, the Canadian singer-songwriter's album due next month. This is a not-very-gentle break-up song: "People change, people grow," it starts out, "You can take it in stride or slam a door."

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Sunflower Bean: Waiting For The Rain

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Yes we're choosing to feature another track from Mortal Primetime, following "Champagne Taste," "Nothing Romantic" and "Take Out Your Insides." Got a problem with that?

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Royel Otis: Moody

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This duo from Sydney is getting some backlash for the lyric, which has a guy complaining that his girl is "a bitch when she's moody," while also singing that "she's my everything, she's all that I need." Is he being sexist - or is she being emotionally abusive? Discuss.

'Lost' Springsteen + new Marshall Crenshaw, Yukon Blonde, The Beths, Jacob's Run

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Bruce Springsteen: Waiting On The End Of The World

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"New music" in the sense that it has never been released (except for a bootleg), this 1994-vintage recording is one of 83 (!!!) songs on the just-issued Tracks II: The Lost Albums. Reviewer Josh Kitchen writes: "It's unbelievable that this song was not released until now. ... [It] feels like a perfect summation of the music found on Tunnel of Love, Human Touch, Lucky Town, and now the rest of the songs here on the Streets of Philadelphia Sessions (one of the seven 'lost albums' in this collection). It's peak Bruce, a hopeful sounding Bruce anthem about the price we pay for love."

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Marshall Crenshaw: Move Now

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Here's another kinda-sorta new track, from an LP called From the Hellhole, Crenshaw's nickname for his home studio. Stereogum tells us "the album’s 14 tracks include 11 repurposed from Record Store Day vinyl EPs released between 2012 and 2016, all of which have been out of print since 2016. Eight of those tracks have been remixed for the occasion. Three more tunes from across Crenshaw’s career round out the tracklist." This song is one of the originals, co-written with Dan Bern.

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Yukon Blonde: Colours of My Dreams

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This is the first single from Frienship & Rock 'n' Roll, a new LP due in September. The album is described as "stripping things back to spotlight the rawness and electricity of their rock 'n' roll love show." The group from British Columbia says it's "our love letter to rock ’n’ roll itself, like a dog-eared note stuffed in the locker of the universe."

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The Beths: No Joy

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We've been spinning the New Zealand quartet's recent single, "Metal," and now comes word of an LP, Straight Line Was A Lie, coming in August. This song deals with vocalist Elizabeth Stokes' experience with depression and treatment. "It's about anhedonia, which, paradoxically, was there both in the worst parts of depression, and then also when I was feeling pretty numb on my SSRI (medication). It wasn’t that I was sad, I was feeling pretty good. It was just that I didn’t like the things that I liked. I wasn’t getting joy from them.”

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Jacob's Run: Sunday

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We're glad to hear more from this Melbourne band - its first release since its self-titled debut LP in 2019. The word is that this single precedes a second album on its way, The Other Side. With Mark Opitz producing, the original line-up of Michael Jacobs (vocals, guitar), Peter Curigliano (bass, vocals) and Fabian Bucci (drums) is augmented here by a 32-piece orchestra led by conductor George Ellis - giving this gentle ballad a lush sound it doesn't really need.

New from Muse, Nation of Language, Beta Trip, James McMurtry, Shayla McDaniel

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Muse: Unravelling

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Nation of Language: I'm Not Ready for the Change

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Beta Trip: Juliet

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James McMurtry: The Color of Night

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Shayla McDaniel: Pretending For Real

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Cool new sounds from David Byrne, Big Thief, Tune-Yards, Goose, Suzanne Vega

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David Byrne feat. Ghost Train Orchestra: Everybody Laughs

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This buoyant track will open David Byrne's upcoming album Who Is The Sky? It's due in September and features many collaborators, including St. Vincent, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, The Smile’s Tom Skinner, and New York ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. "Someone I know said, ‘David, you use the word “everybody” a lot.’ I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it,” Byrne says in a press release. “Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps ... I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way, balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together. Music can do that—hold opposites simultaneously."

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Big Thief: Incomprehensible

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Now a trio since the departure of bassist Max Oleartchik, the Brooklyn-based group recruited a bunch of collaborators to record their upcoming album, Double Infinity. We're told they set up New York’s famed Power Station studio and recorded live with minimal overdubs, playing for nine hours a day as they improvised arrangements. The LP is due in September, and this track will be the album opener. Adrianne Lenker's conversational lyrics describe personal reflections on time and aging during a road trip.

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Tune-Yards: Swarm

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We felt the need to put another track from Better Dreaming into our New Music Bin as "How Big Is The Rainbow" settles back in our giant playlist. One reviewer called this one "a funky soul-inspired piece with a bass that can motivate some serious air guitar playing."

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Goose: Your Direction

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The current lineup of the Connecticut-based jam band - Rick Mitarotonda (guitar), Peter Anspach (keys/guitar), Trevor Weekz (bass) and Cotter Ellis (drums) -  recently released its fourth studio album. Glide Magazine writes that "Unlike the previous genre-bending Dripfield LP that saw the band making a concerted effort to adopt a more indie pop sound, Everything Must Go embraces the group’s jam band roots." The review says this track is an "album highlight thanks to a strong Fleetwood Mac influence and breezy West Coast vibes." 

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Suzanne Vega: Love Thief

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This song from her new album, Flying With Angels, has a very different sound from anything else in Vega's discography. It has a 70s funky R&B sound, complete with background singers supplying "yeah yeah yeahs." The lyric seems to come from a desire to give love, rather than steal it. The narrator is "Loving everybody these days / Like it's some kind of craze."

New music: Turnstile, Sunflower Bean, Pool Kids, Kathleen Edwards, The Happy Fits

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Turnstile: I Care

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This Baltimore group has been billed as "punk-hardcore" since its origin in 2010; its website is turnstilehardcore.com; and every review of its new, fourth album, Never Enough, seems to insist it still fits that genre. But as newcomers to Turnstile, we think a better descriptor is "versatile." The LP has some hard-edged tracks and parts of tracks, but they're mixed with strains of indie-pop, shoegaze, classic rock and even jazz and reggaeton. On this and other songs, lead vocalist Brendan Yates seems to channel Sting. Well, after all, The Police were pretty damn hardcore in their day. (Photo by Alexis Gross)

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Sunflower Bean: Take Out Your Insides

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We've been spinning "Champagne Taste" and "Nothing Romantic," and now with the full release of Mortal Primetime we're featuring this track that Under the Radar calls "sublime ... heartfelt, folky, and quietly devastating." The lyric is a plea to a friend or lover to share inner thoughts and feelings. Paste says the LP may be the "best album of the trio's career. Because after 10+ years of flirting with nearly every classic-rock trope under the sun, [its new record] casts aside the traditional rock-band impetus to choose an era, genre, and style of rock and roll’s past to emulate - and instead embraces all of them. "

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Pool Kids: Easier Said Than Done

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We're glad to hear these kids from Tallahassee, Fla., have a new album on the way. This first single is the title track, which vocalist Christine Goodwyne says reflects on how obsessive-compulsive disorder "can just rob your life of joy. Things can be going so well, and then it just sucks any enjoyment out of it." She sings: "I told you I know how to have fun / If only I could let go, it’s easier said than done."

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Kathleen Edwards: Save Your Soul

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The Canadian singer-songwriter says she decided to call her new album Billionaire "because the word is used in such a caustic way these days. But we should all want to be billionaires in life, to be rich in experience, friendship, purpose, and the pursuit of the things that bring us joy." OK but this song's lyric is clearly about monetary riches: "Line your pockets with gold / Who’s going to save your soul?" The LP, due in August, is co-produced by Jason Isbell, who also contributes guitar, keys and backing vocals.

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The Happy Fits: Everything You Do

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Three friends from the outer 'burbs of New Jersey formed this band in 2016, and had released an EP and three LPs by 2022. Since then the lineup has changed, with lead singer Calvin Langman and drummer Luke Davis now joined by Nico Rose and Raina Mullen on guitar and backing vocals. Langman says he wrote this song, from their upcoming album Lovesick, "shortly after moving to Brooklyn to live alone for the first time in my life. Maybe it’s just my social circles and algorithm, but I feel there’s a shared feeling amongst everyone right now of being overworked, underpaid, and underloved. 'Everything You Do' is my own internal battle of fighting for my heart vs. being practical and rational. Knowing me, the heart always finds a way to win."

New releases from Yellowcard, Garbage, Caamp, Mt. Joy & Gigi Perez, Grace Potter

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Yellowcard: Better Days

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Here's the title track from the Florida alt-rockers' first full album in nearly a decade, due in October. Blink-182's Travis Barker produced and added his drums to every song. The band describes this number as an "unflinching reflection on gratitude, perspective and purpose."

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Garbage: Hold

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With the release of Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, the band's eighth studio album, we're adding this track that Melodic Magazine calls "a rallying cry for a generation lost in grief and rage - a standout track that feels tailor-made for the times." Written during frontwoman Shirley Manson’s recovery from hip surgery, the LP is "steeped in reflection and resilience, anchored by a refusal to succumb to despair," writes Under the Radar.

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Caamp: Mistakes

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Just months after dropping an EP, Somewhere, but three years after its last LP, the Ohio group is back this week with a full album, Copper Changes Color. This song is said to be inspired by frontman and primary songwriter Taylor Meier’s time in New York City, and seems to describe the early stages of getting to know a potential romantic partner: "Can I get to know you, honey / And all of your lovely mistakes? / I've got more than a few to show you."

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Mt. Joy, Gigi Perez: In The Middle

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This Philadelphia group broke big with its third album, 2022’s Orange Blood. They return with Hope We Have Fun, which includes guest spots by Nathaniel Rateliff and Gigi Perez. Frontman Matt Quinn says he co-wrote this song with Perez at a songwriter retreat, without knowing that she'd just had her own breakout with “Sailor Song.” “I probably would’ve been really nervous if I knew that she was this star songwriter and singer, so I think it just really worked in our favor,” Quinn says. “It was just two people working on a song together.”

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Grace Potter: Before The Sky Falls

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In a post announcing her new release, Medicine, Potter says: "Seventeen years ago, I stepped into the studio with the legendary T Bone Burnett to create an album that captured a raw, authentic sound. That album was shelved and remained unheard - until now." Glide Magazine reports that "Potter’s label was unhappy with the softer direction, which they saw as off-brand for the rock star persona they were building." Eight of the songs were reworked and re-recorded for 2010's Grace Potter and The Nocturnals. Our pick for the New Music bin is a song that was never previously released.

Refreshing our New Music Bin - 15 tracks added to our Marvelous Mix

Due to circumstances that may or may not have been beyond our control, we've missed a few weeks of updates to the New Music portion of our giant playlist. So to catch up, we've selected 15 tracks from recent upcoming releases to freshen up our mix. 

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James McMurtry: The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy

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Kate Klim: Snow Globe

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Stereophonics: Make It On Your Own

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Lucius: Impressions (feat. Madison Cunningham)

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My Morning Jacket: Lemme Know

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Mumford & Sons: Truth

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Wolf Alice: Bloom Baby Bloom

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Nation of Language: Inept Apollo

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Suzanne Vega: Flying With Angels

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Anna Katrina: Riptide

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The Head & The Heart: Beg Steal Borrow

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Goose: Give It Time

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Tune-Yards: How Big Is The Rainbow

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Sports Team: Moving Together

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Ayasanabee: Home

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Suzanne Vega, The Beths, OK Go, Adult Leisure, Turnstile land in our New Music Bin

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Suzanne Vega: Speakers' Corner

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It's surprising to realize that Flying With Angels is just the 10th studio album in a discography that begins with 1985's Suzanne Vega. But the songs are as sharply observed and beautifully crafted as ever. This opening track slyly comments on today's political situation by emphasizing with someone ranting on a streetcorner - "The doomsday prophet / Whose words have all come true."

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The Beths: Metal

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It's good to hear again from this Auckland, N.Z., quartet. Since 2022's Expert In A Dying Field, vocalist Elizabeth Stokes says she has "been on what one might call a 'health journey.' For parts of the last few years, I kind of felt like my body was a vehicle that had carried me pretty well thus far but was breaking down, something I had little to no control over." This single, she says, is "about being alive and existing in a human body."

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OK Go: Love

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We dip once more into And the Adjacent Possible to feature this track that Rolling Stone calls "a charming, yet hard-charging tune that pairs crunchy guitars with a tender message: “In this grand ballroom of nothingness / We soar, we sail to the only song there’s ever been: Love.”

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Adult Leisure: See Her

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The band from Bristol put out an EP in 2023, and now is prepping its debut album, Things We Don't Know Yet. It will include this new single that features guest saxophone from John Waugh, known for collaborations with The 1975 and Sam Fender. The song is billed as "a sarcastic take on the breakdown of a relationship and the biting realisation that you're happier now that it's over."

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Turnstile: Never Enough

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This is the title track from the upcoming fourth album by this Baltimore group. Pitchfork says the "experimental hardcore band sinks deeper into its stylistic hallmarks" on the track, and "sound[s] rigid and fluid at once, playing into blasted guitars and dreamy interludes that tempt escapism." (Photo by Atiba Jefferson)

What's New: Sunflower Bean, My Morning Jacket, Faded Paper Figures, The Darcys, Free Range

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Sunflower Bean: Nothing Romantic

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This indie trio, formed in Brooklyn in the mid-teens, took a break after 2022's Headful of Sugar - "walking away with no promise of coming back, moving to different states, floating in the abyss," as the band puts it. "Yet there was also a language that pulled us back together, the dream that there was more we needed to say together." They reunited and put out an EP last year, and now follow with their fourth album, Mortal Primetime. AllMusic says the LP showcases "the group's hard-won maturity and broad musical influences, balancing guitar-heavy rock with AM pop and introspective singer/songwriter ballads."

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My Morning Jacket: Half A Lifetime

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We pull another solid track from Jim James & co.'s 10th album (annoyingly titled is). New Noise Magazine says has "upbeat and funky energy" as its lyric "dives into the longer journeys of life and all the little moments that suddenly add up."

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Faded Paper Figures: Forget All The Days We Died

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This trio is working on its seventh album of synthpop - Triangles - while balancing their "day jobs" as a physician (Heather Alden), an English professor (R. John Williams) and a composer for film and TV (Kael Alden). We've been including their music in our mix for nearly a decade, and we're happy to present this early taste of the LP due in the fall.

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The Darcys: Dreaming

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Now based in LA, this duo from Toronto released Rendering Feelings last fall, so we're late picking up this track, but it was just issued as a single. Jason Couse and Wes Marskell say this song is "about the irreversible damage we’re inflicting on the planet and how our individual efforts to create change often fall on the deaf ears of those in power. ... If anything, we probably should have called the song Nightmares."

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Free Range: Concept

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The sophomore album from this Chicago indie-Americana band, Lost & Found, is a set of songs about that time of life when you’re transitioning out of adolescence and into adulthood, grappling with self-discovery and self-acceptance, and feeling alone but seeking connection. So lead singer Sofia Jensen tells Paste Magazine. This track is one of the higher-energy, rocking numbers on the LP. 

New Music: Arcade Fire, Garbage, Valerie June, Aurora, Current Swell

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Arcade Fire: Year of the Snake

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The lead single from the just-announced LP Pink Elephant is "all about how times are weird and bad, but feeling uncomfortable can be positive," writes Stereogum. "It’s the season of change / and if you you feel strange / It’s probably good," says the chorus. Win Butler and his spouse/bandmate Régine Chassagne produced the album with Daniel Lanois at the couple’s studio in New Orleans. (Photo by Danny Clinch)

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Garbage: There's No Future In Optimism

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Ahead of a new album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, comes this single inspired by being in Los Angeles in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing. The lyrics, say band leader Shirley Manson, "are an action against that title. Because if we allow our fatalism or our negativity to really take over, we will crumble." (Photo by Joseph Cultice)

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Valerie June: All I Really Wanna Do

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The singer-songwriter from Tennessee, "who began her career as a blues singer, has moved pretty far away from that with her fourth album, Owls, Omens, and Oracles," writes Glide Magazine. "Call it Americana, but there are heavy tinges of pop and indie, with lighter hints of gospel and neo-soul. Here, she explores the many aspects of love but celebrates the joy of being alive." This number features "an array of keys from piano to glockenspiel to organ behind June’s layered vocals.".

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Aurora: The Flood

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The Norwegian art-pop singer follows her fifth studio album, last year's What Happened To The Heart?, with this new single. "This is a song about the invisible enemy. What brings you anger, what brings you worry and sadness. What makes you crawl into yourself instead of meeting the world fully."

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Current Swell: If You Want My Time

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This Victoria, BC-based indie-rock band returns six years after it's most recent LP, Buffalo, with this new single. Canadian Beats calls it "a heartfelt and infectious track that captures the balance between love’s deep affections and everyday frustrations. Wrapped in catchy melodies and nostalgic warmth ... Blending elements of rock, roots-rock, and indie-rock."