Fresh sounds from The Interrupters, Blondshell, Jane's Party, The Jayhawks, Leon Bridges

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• The Interrupters - Warrior Spirit - The Los Angeles band finds a way to add 80's synths and some new-wave energy to its punk-ska sound on its first release since 2022.
• Blondshell - Heart Has To Work So Hard - From Violins, the third Blondshell album from LA's Sabrina Teitelbaum.
• Jane's Party - Scream and Shout - The Toronto indie-rock quartet just released its sixth album, Avalanche.
• The Jayhawks - Kingston Girl - We dip back into this summer's release, Sanctuary Park, for this song that we think refers to Kingston, N.Y., since there's a mention of neighboring Saugerties. 
• Leon Bridges - Illusion - Pitchfork writes that this track from Happiness Anytime "skillfully blends African and Latin signifiers in a way that feels fresh and unexpected."

Rainbow Body debuts, Stevie Wonder renews + Justin Saladino Band, The Falls, Julia Jacklin

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Rainbow Body - Strange Memory - The first release from a new project by Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith of Dawes, Goose guitarist Rick Mitarotonda and other friends. An eight-track album will be out later this month.
• Stevie Wonder - It's Easier - One of four previously unreleased tracks from the sessions that produced Songs in the Key of Life 50 years ago. Freshly mixed by the original engineers and sounding brand-new.
• Justin Saladino Band - Steal My Soul - The title track from the Montreal blues-rock group's just-released new album.
• The Falls - Blink - The Manchester quartet just released their second LP, Would You Do It All Over Again?, combining previously issued singles with brand-new tracks like this one.
• Julia Jacklin - The Hardest Thing - From The Gem, which also gave us "Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)."

September's additions to our New Music bin

We've fallen behind in updating this blog with our latest releases. Here's what we've added to the New Music bin this month:

• The Empty Pockets (pictured lower right) - Serrated - Their upcoming album Dear Billionaires has some things to say about people with full pockets, but this single is more of a love song. 
• Slothrust - Burn the Deck - The band says this song "encourag[es] people to dismantle the current systems keeping them in a cage of their own making." 
• Sasha and the Lunatics (pictured at top) - Diamonds to Coal - The Belgian quartet says this single is about feeling powerless amid chaos.
• Peter Gabriel - Looking for the Happy (Bright-side mix) - The moon-by-moon release of o/i continues.
• Ratboys - Penny in the Lake - Catching up with this "sunny, twangy, extremely welcoming tune with lyrics full of disconnected imagery" (per Stereogum) from Singin' to an Empty Chair.
• St. Paul and the Broken Bones (pictured middle right) - Proxy - The title track from their moody, bluesy new album.
• Alabama Shakes - I Feel Hope Coming - From I Must Be Dreaming, their first LP in 11 years. 
• Fontaines D.C. - Marianne - The lead single from the band's fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber.
• Valley - Don't You Forget About Me? - This and other recent singles will be on the Do You Need To Be Entertained? album, coming in January.
• Beck - Run Away - From the crooner's latest, Ride Lonesome.

And the latest batch:

• U2 (pictured middle left) - Silencio - Just released along with the announcement of the band's next album, Carnaval de Luz.
• Interpol - Wings On Fire - Another hot track from This Mirror Weighs a Ton.
• Kiwi Jr. - Pure Michigan - From Blowin Up, a song about 19-year-olds crossing from Detroit to Windsor to take advantage of Ontario's lower drinking age.
• Needtobreathe - Can't Apologize - Featuring Jonah Kagen.
• Sorcha Richardson (pictured lower left) - Illinois Again - From the Irish singer-songwriter's new album, Draw the Outline.

Latest from Interpol, The Jayhawks, Night Talks, Grace Potter, Goose added to our big mix

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Interpol - See Out Loud - From the just-released This Mirror Weighs a Ton. NME says this track is filled with "that classic Interpol post-punk propulsion." Daniel Kessler shares the vocal work with frontman Paul Banks.
•  The Jayhawks - Keeping Our Heads Above Water - A sort of coming-of-age song from the new album, Sanctuary Park. 
• Night Talks - Window Shopping - The latest single from the LA trio fronted by the effervescent Soraya Sebghati. We still don't know why they haven't hit the big time nationally. 
• Grace Potter - Love Me Not - A bouncy do-you-or-don't-you track from the just-released album Trespasser.
• Goose - Good Times // End Times - Dipping once more into Big Modern for this track, billed as "an anthem for an apocalypse that never quite arrives."

Alabama Shakes, Annie Keating, Grace Cummings, Brigitte Calls Me Baby, Peter Gabriel: New sounds

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Alabama Shakes - Garden - Brittany Howard and company give us a soulful take on the if-you-don't-treat-her-right-I-will theme, from the upcoming LP I Must Be Dreaming.
• Annie Keating and The Dreaming Spires - Put Me In Your Hands - Brooklyn-based Keating joins forces with a band from Oxfordshire, UK, on this piece of "sun-drenched country-rock."
• Grace Cummings - Bloodhorse - The title track from the Melbourne artist's fourth album, which Clash Music calls "an accessible form of the avant garde."
• Brigitte Calls Me Baby - I Can Take The Sun Out Of The Sky - The latest catchy single to spin out of the Chicago band's Irreversible album.
• Peter Gabriel - One By One (Dark-Side Mix) - The August-new-moon release from o/i is a nine-minute epic that revives a character, Mozo, Gabriel first wrote about in his early solo albums.

New tunes from Lake Street Dive, Bywater Call, Danielle Ponder, Death Cab for Cutie, Julia Jacklin

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Lake Street Dive - You're Never Around - The band calls this a "summer single" and teases that there's another on its way. No word yet on an album to follow 2024's Good Together.
• Bywater Call - No One Else - Another piece of dynamite from Broken Souvenirs by Canada's answer to soulful Southern blues-rock.
• Danielle Ponder - Sun and Moon - Four years after her debut album, the former Rochester N.Y. attorney will release Everything Has Changed this fall. Here's the first single.
• Death Cab for Cutie - Stone Over Water - We pick another track from I Built You A Tower to feature in the New Music bin. 
• Julia Jacklin - Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon) - From the Australian singer-songwriter's upcoming LP The Gem. Does the title/refrain mean "I don't want to fall in love with you" or "I will, but not yet"?

Buffalo Traffic Jam, Pete Yorn, Teenage Fanclub, Lake Street Dive, plus Muse & Ellie Goulding

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Buffalo Traffic Jam - Pictures Of You - The title track of the Montana duo's first full-length LP, following last year's EP and several singles.
• Pete Yorn - Never Said No - The singer-songwriter told Magnet Magazine he sees this opening song on All The Beauty "as saying yes to life—even though life is crazy." 
• Teenage Fanclub - Day In The Sun - From Do Not Dare to Dream, the Scottish band's 13th studio album, this track is billed as a "melodic meditation on renewal and shifting perspective."
• Lake Street Dive - You're Never Around - The band’s first new original track since 2024's Good Together seems to signal a new album is in the works.
• Muse & Ellie Goulding - Hush - An unlikely combination collaborate on this track from The Wow! Signal.

New Music: The Jayhawks, Slothrust, Grace Potter, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Foo Fighters

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• The Jayhawks - American Midnight - The Minnesota band's Gary Louris says his move to Canada gave him a new perspective on his native country. From the band's next LP, Sanctuary Park.
• Slothrust - Ring the Bell - Now a duo, Leah Wellbaum and Will Gorin say the upcoming What They Grow in the Garden is their "biggest and wildest record to date."
• Grace Potter - Run, Baby, Run - Advice to an unhappy friend, from the new album Tresspasser, Potter's seventh.
• St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Mess I Made - Paul Janeway says he was in an "overwhelming and generally sad time" when he wrote this song. Hopefully it helped.
• Foo Fighters - Window - Another single spins out from Your Favorite Toy. Yes, Dave Grohl actually wrote "I saw your face there in the window / You were a window cleaner letting in the sun."

New releases from U2, Peter Gabriel, Joe Jackson, Bywater Call, Dominique Fils-Aime

Another eclectic batch of tracks just added to our New Music bin:

• U2 - Street of Dreams - The first single to emerge from an upcoming studio album, expected around their 50th anniversary later this year. (Photo by Viviane Sassen)
• Peter Gabriel - I Belong to the Sky (Bright-Side Mix) - The seventh in this year's cycle of singles making up the album O/I. The track expands in many directions over its 7 minutes plus.
• Joe Jackson - Welcome to Burning-By-Sea - Catching up with this spring's Hope and Fury album. This opening track is a postcard from a "tart of a town."
• Bywater Call - Ain't No Friend of Mine - A blistering track from the Canadian roots band's upcoming album Broken Souvenirs.
• Dominique Fils-Aime - Phoenix Rising - The Quebec artist's new album, My World Is The Sun, is "a musical bubble bath," says The Indy Review. Let it wash over you.

The latest from Muse, Phoebe Bridgers, Valley, Pete Yorn, Brooke Annibale

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Muse - Nightshift Superstar - A disco-tinged track from The Wow! Signal, which The Irish Times approvingly describes as "a glam odyssey that fuses metal, techno, science fiction and prog rock into an overstuffed inferno of absurdity."
• Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Boys - The first single from Lost Weekend, Bridgers' first album in six years.
• Valley - Vending Machine - The Toronto alt-pop trio says it's latest single is "a song about transactional relationships."
• Pete York - Idyllwild - From the upcoming album All The Beauty, this song's lyrics suggest making happy memories with one's child.
• Brooke Annibale - Make You Mine - We previously featured a couple of early singles, and now add this track from the just-released album, Bolder Font.