So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we’d call “indie,” and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. We update a playlist weekly of some of our current favorite tracks. Here’s a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place.
RISE AGAINST – “PRIZEFIGHTER”
Rise Against released their second single of 2025, a powerhouse punk anthem that vocalist Tim McIlrath says is “about a compulsion to create, that then creates an audience, and then your connection with that audience and your responsibilities to that audience, and how much an artist is obliged to that audience. It’s trying to reconcile the shift from spectator to the public arena, and what you owe the people that are your fans versus what you owe your own mental health.” Along with the release of the song, Rise Against revealed that they’re playing Warped Tour Long Beach.
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BLONDSHELL – “23’S A BABY”
Blondshell’s highly anticipated new album If You Asked For a Picture arrives next month, and she’s given us another preview with “23’s a Baby.” “The song is partially about being in your twenties and feeling like you’re supposed to know everything (your parents even had kids around that age!) yet you’re truly in the weeds trying to figure out who you are,” she says. “I wanted it to have a bit of a nursery rhyme feel. It’s a heavy subject so it was important to have fun when we made it.”
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IDLE HEIRS – “MOMMA”
Coalesce offshoot Idle Heirs’ debut album Life Is Violence comes out next week (4/11 via Relapse), and ahead of that, they’ve shared the somber acoustic album closer “Momma.”
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REYNA TROPICAL – “CONEXIÓN ANCESTRAL (SOFIA KOURTESIS EDIT)”
Reyna Tropical has announced Malegría en la Oscuridad, an EP of remixes of songs from last year’s Malegría. “When I wrote ‘Conexion Ancestral,’ it was in part for the gay boy that lives in me, and wanting to offer some love and respect to the girls that helped me find sanctuary in the club,” Reyna says of this Sofia Kourtesis edit. “I always knew that when the time came, the right person would appear to turn this anthem about diaspora, land, and revolution into the ballroom hit it was meant to transform into. When I heard Sofia Kourtesis’ ‘Madres’ I almost instantly heard ‘Conexion Ancestral’ take on its new form and basically took our mutual homage to Manu Chao as a sign that we were meant to intersect in this vision.”
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LAUFEY – “SILVER LINING”
A press release describes Laufey’s new single as “the first taste of what marks a new Laufey era.” “‘Silver Lining’ is a love song about being able to set your true personality free when you fall in love,” she says. “Your inner child comes out and you are emboldened by lust. Even if it takes you to hell, at least you’re with your partner.”
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FALTYDL – “DON’T GO”
FaltyDL has announced new album Neurotica which is due out June 13 via Planet Mu. The album was inspired by his young daughter. Here’s the first single.
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DAWES – “TIME SPENT IN LOS ANGELES” (FOR ALTADENA, FT. ANDREW BIRD & ALAN HAMPTON)
“We were asked to perform on Jimmy Kimmel within a week of both of our properties burning in Altadena,” Taylor Goldsmith says. “Griffin lost his house and I lost our studio. We decided to play a ballad version of ‘Time Spent in Los Angeles.’ The song means all sorts of different things to us now. After that live performance it became clear we would want a proper studio recording of the version for posterity (and to maybe even raise a little more money for MusiCares). So we hit up our fellow Angelenos Andrew Bird and Alan Hampton and recorded this live in one take at our old friend Mike Viola’s house studio in Echo Park. I feel like this is the version of this song that we’re gonna be playing for a long time to come.”
Time Spent in Los Angeles (for Altadena) by Dawes
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – “RAIN IN THE RIVER”
Bruce Springsteen has announced the Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set which will be out June 17 via Sony Music. It features seven never-before-heard full length albums. “’The Lost Albums’ were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,” says Bruce. “I’ve played this music to myself and often close friends for years now. I’m glad you’ll get a chance to finally hear them. I hope you enjoy them.” This song is from the most E Street Band-like album in the box, Perfect World.
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7SECONDS – “CHANGE IN MY HEAD” (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, 1985)
Melodic hardcore pioneers 7Seconds will continue their ongoing reissue campaign with a new edition of 1986’s New Wind. In addition to re-releasing the original album (remastered from the original tapes), they’re also putting out Change In My Head, which features new mixes of every song on New Wind by the album’s original producer, Ian MacKaye (of Minor Threat, Fugazi, etc), and Inner Ear Studios’ Don Zientara. Change In My Head also tacks on two previously unreleased tracks from the New Wind sessions, “Change In My Head” and “Compro.” The former is out now, and you can read more here.
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