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."