New Music

Discover the top new songs from May 2023 on our monthly playlist. We’ve curated over 100 fresh music releases that we couldn’t stop listening to! Most of these amazing tracks were selected from our submission playlist, and some even received full-page editorials. Our favorite new song releases from May feature new song releases from: MILCK, […]

L.A.-based artist LP Giobbi has unleashed her luminous debut album upon the world with the release of Light Places, a kaleidoscopic introduction to the “one-woman jam band.” A veritable multi-hyphenate (from DJ and producer to pianist and activist), her absorbing creations are owed to the idiosyncracies of her music background: trained as a classical pianist […]

With the help of producer Dom Dolla the indelible Nelly Furtado has made her return, sharing her first new song with the release of the EDM club record “Eat Your Man.” The new collaboration comes with the news the that iconic artist has plans for a new album in the works. That’s actually how Dom […]

Refulgent dream-pop specialist Monad has just shared a new single in the form of the sonically crystalline “Light in an Empty Room.” If this is your first time listening to the project of Tel-Aviv-based artist and producer Eshchar Nachmany, it doesn’t take long to find yourself blissfully enveloped by his psychedelic shoegaze creations. Their last […]

Mexican indie singer/songwriter Silvana Estrada is back with another touching release with her new single “Milagro y Desastre.” It is the third release she has shared this year alongside previous singles “Amor Eterno” and a beautiful a capaella cover of Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner.” She will also be performing at the Walt Disney Concert Hall […]

If you haven’t yet stumbled upon Los Angeles collective grouptherapy. then their latest release “Nasty” will serve as their saucy introduction. Comprised of a trio of artists — Jadagrace, SWIM, and TJOnline — the group creates audaciously personable mixtapes that blend their individual talents into a molten mixture of lane-changing hip-hop. Their debut this is […]

Volcanic punk-rock outfit Lambrini Girls has finally unveiled their debut EP with the release of You’re Welcome. Across the six-track collection the band runs a gauntlet of furiously raucous anthems devoted to tearing down abusers and bashing bigots. Wielding a brash lyricism that switchfoots often between the bitterly sardonic and the brutally eviscerating. Insatiable as […]

Los Angeles duo Mirrorball has shared the second single from their forthcoming debut EP with the release of “Red Hot Dust.” They will also be performing in Los Angeles twice at Permanent Records Roadhouse on Jun. 24 and at Gold Diggers on Aug. 15. The project of singer/songwriter Alexandra Johnstone and multi-instrumentalist and composer Scott […]

Ceci Bastida has shared a new single with the release of her combustive new track “D$NERO” (feat. Quetzal Flores, Martha Gonzalez). It arrives as the first track the Los Angeles artist has shared this year following last year’s “No Tengas Miedo” and “Dale,” all of which have contributed to her return after the pandemic placed […]

Los Angeles rockers This Is A Revolver has shared their latest single and music video for the manic “Stir Crazy,” marking their third new song of the year. Comprised of Rudy Lopez (guitar/bass/mix-master), Nikki Born (lyrics/vocals), Matt Gossen (bass), and Taylor Frost (drums), the band creates the kind of virulent rock you’d expect from such […]

Almost out of nowhere, at just 20 years old, alternative singer Arlo Parks made a name for herself with the release of 2021’s Collapsed In Sunbeams, a debut as promising as it was eclectic. Known for her broad taste in music, the London native is back again with another show-stopping album, The Soft Machine. Roughly […]

Singer/songwriter Liza Anne has shared a punchy new art pop single with the release of “Cheerleader,” the artist’s first release since coming out as gay and non-binary. They have also embarked on a tour that will bring them to Soda Bar in San Diego on June 21 and a DJ set at Gold Diggers in […]

Over the past few years, Canadian-Colombian multihyphenate Lido Pimienta has undergone a natural evolution that has seen her come into her own and make singular music akin to a self-sufficient ecosystem of her creation. Though it’s been about three years since she last released solo music, she’s offering a glimpse of what’s to come on […]

Little by little, the indie sleaze style that dominated NYC in the early 2000s, defined by disco balls, hedonistic maturity, cigarettes, drugs, and good music, has been making a comeback. But never before has the style been so clearly evoked on producer and songwriter Harrison Patrick Smith’s new EP, The Sex EP. FKA Turtlenecked, Smith […]

Jenny Lewis continues to tease the arrival of her new album Joy’All with the release of its latest single “Cherry Baby,” a meandering acoustic piece that drifts weightlessly amongst the psychedelic lushness of previous singles. She will also be heading out on tour this month with a stop at the KIA Forum in Los Angeles […]

All Things Blue — the project of India Coombs and Jon Joseph — has shared a jaunty new single with the release of “Generic Cod.” You’ll also have a chance to see them at The Moroccan Lounge in Los Angeles on June 28th opening up for Bonzie. If you haven’t yet been introduced to the […]

If you were mindlessly scrolling on Instagram today, you might have seen this hilarious video of Cardi B and Latto. Looking like gorgeous Queens, Latto is seen in a grey and black two-piece with someone sitting next to her with a black bag over their head. Latto exclaims: “I put it on the floor, and […]

You don’t need to know what’s going on in Bradford, England, home to alt-rock band Drella, to feel the frustration. Consisting of lifelong friends Jonny, Toby, and Alfie, all of whom hail from Bradford, they’ve only begun releasing music just a little over a year ago. But in a short period, they’ve made a name […]

Hitting back once again after just having released the song “HEAVYWEIGHT,” LA alt-rock duo ill peach is following up with the single “BLAH BLAH BLAH” ahead of shows across the US, including their first headline show in their native LA at The Moroccan Lounge on July 13. Erupting from the get-go, there’s a controlled chaos […]

November Ultra is back with their first single of the year sharing the tenderhearted lullaby “corazón caramelo,” which comes right on the heels of her announcement of a debut North American tour. This will include what will no doubt be an incredibly intimate performance at The Troubadour in Los Angeles on Jun. 20 that fans […]

Los Angeles avant-garde pop visionary Cassie Marin has shared a new music video for her single “Mundo Dulce,” the title track from their forthcoming new album Mundo Dulce. She has already shared its first two songs — “Freak” and “Ahoy” — with plans to release the record in parts over the next few months. It […]

AG (Adrianne Gonzalez) and Jarina De Marco have teamed up for a new single with the release of “No Es El Fin.” A dreamily triumphant pop anthem that was actually created for use in the end title of an episode of the show “Angel City.” But on its own, the track is an infectiously rousing […]

Drive Home is the 18-track new album from Portraits of Tracy, a collection of both ambitious cinematic breadth and sprawling poetic intensity. One that fervently wrangles all of Couren Bowman’s eclectic musical influences and artistic theatricality into a visceral collage of scenes and intimate confessions. Interspersed by spoken-word monologues, brief skits, and voiceovers that loosely […]

Tapioca, the project of Belgian and Brazilian duo Alessandro “Le Tagarel” Vlerick and Simon “SiKa” Carlier, just released their stunning new LP Samba em Kigali. A multi-genre infusion of ten enchantingly groovy tracks that pay sublime homage to cross-cultural minglings and especially to Africa’s splendor. Delivered via Vlerick’s soothing croons and Carlier’s lush instrumentation, the […]

Los Angeles garage-rock outfit Julez and the Rollerz have made their raucous debut with the release of the Is This Where The Party Is? EP. Led by the indomitable Jules Batterman (lead vocals, guitar), the five-piece currently consists of Rachel David (bass, vocals), Shea Carothers (synth, vocals), Hannah Hughes (guitar, vocals), and Emi Borjas (drums). […]