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).

Latest from Iron and Wine, Melissa Etheridge, Mitski, Dry Cleaning, Mumford & Sons

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Iron & Wine - Robin's Egg (feat. I'm With Her) - Sam Beam's eighth album, Hen's Teeth, was recorded during the same sessions as Light Verse. This LP has darker, earthier textures, but the I'm With Her trio (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O'Donovan) add lightness to this track.
• Melissa Etheridge - Bein' Alive - One of the latest nominees to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame releases this single from her first studio album in five years, Rise.
• Mitski - Where's My Phone? - This oh-so-common question takes on a sense of paranoia and dread in this track from Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, her eighth album.
• Dry Cleaning - Joy - On this track from the South London post-punk band’s third studio album, Secret Love,, Florence Shaw talk-sings about staying positive in "a horror land."
• Mumford & Sons & Chris Stapleton - Here - With the release of the band's Prizefighter LP comes this moody track about memories attached to accumulated objects.

U2, The Lone Bellow, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Mumford and Sons, Joe Pernice bring the news

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• U2 - Yours Eternally - An imagined letter from a Ukrainian soldier on the front line, this track closes Days of Ash, a surprise-released EP of songs commenting on current events - from the recent killing of Renee Good by government agents in Minneapolis to the 2022 killing of Sarina Esmailzadeh by government agents in Iran.
• The Lone Bellow - After the Rain - The opening number from the band's just-released album, What A Time To Be Alive.
• Tedeschi Trucks Band - Who Am I - The second single to emerge from the Florida ensemble's upcoming Future Soul LP.
• Mumford and Sons - Run Together - Perhaps the most classically Mumford track on the trio's new album, Prizefighter.
• Joe Pernice - Deep Into the Dawn - We're long-time fans of Aimee Mann, and her duet on this track introduced us to Pernice, an indie musician and songwriter who has led several bands over the years and will soon release his first solo album, Sunny, I Was Wrong.

The New Pornographers, Cardinals, Ace of Wands, Krooked Tongue, Arkells in the new music bin

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• The New Pornographers - Pure Sticker Shock - Sterogum calls this track from the upcoming LP The Former Site Of "a bubbly synthpop jam about crippling self-doubt."
• Cardinals - St. Agnes - Masquerade, the debut full-length from this five-piece band from Cork, Ireland, is a "festival-ready banger,' says NME.
• Ace of Wands - Edge of the Edge - The Toronto art-rock band describes this single as embracing the sense of "leaping off the edge into the unknown future."
• Krooked Tongue - Blood Shark - With two EPs under their belt, this band from Bristol, UK, is bringing out its debut LP, I Know a Place, in April.
• Arkells - Next Summer - The next LP from the band from Hamilton, Ont., Between Us, is also due in April.

New from Metric, Peter Gabriel, The Legal Matters, Second Hand Dreamcar, Gracie and Rachel

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Metric - Victim of Luck - On he lead single from the Toronto quartet's LP Romanticize The Dive, due in April, lead singer Emily Haines remembers the days "before all the stardom" when she felt fearless instead of "frightened of heights we knew." 
• Peter Gabriel - Put the Bucket Down (Bright Side Mix) - The latest in the monthly releases to be collected on his next album, i/o. 
• Secondhand Dreamcar - The Meaning - This Edmonton band's debut album, Answer the Call, was just nominated for a JUNO award for Blues Album of the Year.
• The Legal Matters - The Message - From the Michigan indie-pop band's fourth album, Lost At Sea.
• Gracie and Rachel - Leaving Home Is Going Home - From the upcoming album If We Could, Would We by the NYC-based indie-pop duo of Gracie Coates and Rachel Ruggles.

Arctic Monkeys, Buffalo Traffic Jam, Lights, Cannons, Beck spin into the New Music Bin

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night - This impressionistic song of Vegas pseudoreality will be the opening track on a charity compilation album, Help(2), coming in March to benefit War Child UK.
• Buffalo Traffic Jam - I Don't Care - The duo from Bozeman, Montana, that had a breakout year in 2025 with the Take Me Home EP starts the new year with this breakup song.
• Lights - Come Get Your Girl - One of the new songs on A6Extended, an expanded re-release of the Ontario indie-pop artist's sixth album. 
• Cannons - Starlight - This LA-based indie-pop trio will release its fifth studio album, Everything Glows, in March.
• Beck - True Love Will Find You In The End - A Daniel Johnston song Beck previously recorded for a 2004 tribute album, redone for Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime. The EP, coming next month, is billed as "a lovingly curated collection of rarities, deep cuts and covers."