21 New Tracks Released Today, Featuring Modest Mouse, Graham Coxon, and More

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.

LIGHTNING BUG – “SONG FOR A…”

Audrey Kang has announced a new Lightning Bug EP, In Between Things, which will be out July 14. Of the first single she says, “The song expresses the jolt, sudden awakening of falling in love. The zig-zagging between closeness and distance, among all the new unfoldings as you work out the friction of how to let someone in while keeping yourself safe. As if that’s even possible.”

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MODEST MOUSE – “THIRD SIDE OF THE MOON”

Modest Mouse have been playing “Third Side of the Moon” live for the last two years, and they’ve now shared the studio version. It’s the new single off their first album since 2021, An Eraser and a Maze .

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ROB BURGER AND IRON & WINE – “VALLEY PEOPLE”

This song by Rob Burger that features Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam was originally heard on HBO limited series DTF St Louis but has now been released to streaming services. “Rob has been contributing to my songs for years, so I was thrilled to have the chance to contribute to one of his,” says Beam. “The piece has such a steady, calming feel, and I wanted the lyrics to reflect that sense of serenity and the imagery within.”

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RARE DM – “MEAN GIRLED”

“I hate worrying about people I don’t even care about,” Rare DM says. “This song was inspired by rumination against my will, driven by what I have been told is my (ever present & very inconvienent) ‘strong sense of justice.’ The term poisoning the well (or attempting to posion the well) is a type of informal fallacy, with violent roots dating back to the black death / middle ages, and the wartime tactic of poisoning a town’s water supply to destroy an invading army’s health. Far from life or death (despite how it can feel sometimes) my own experiences with being ‘mean girled’ as an adult have been an unwelcome lesson that people committed to misunderstanding you, will continue to do so.” It’s from her new album Attention , which is out later this month.

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LIGHT ONCE LOST – “EXIT CLAUSE” (FT. JEREMY BOLM) & “SWIMMING IN FOUNTAINS”

Alec Riley of Initiate announced a new EP as Light Once Lost, What Doesn’t Steal You , that he’s self-releasing on June 12. He’s shared the first two singles, one of which, “Exit Clause,” features Touché Amoré’s Jeremy Bolm. “This song is written around the idea of having to leave a difficult situation that you once thought would be permanent,” Riley says. “The song begins with the lines ‘Say your thanks on the way out, a crown of crows and a stiff demeanor, once we could afford to let it out I was defeated, deflated I mean it.’ This beginning stanza basically introduces the listener to the situation: being forced out of something you may have otherwise called your own which leaves you defeated. This is supported with Jeremy’s lyric ‘That collection plate is far from the brim, here I am with pockets turned out.’”

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JON SPENCER – “ORANGE SLICE BLUES”

Jon Spencer’s new album Songs of Personal Loss and Protest is out next month and here’s another song from it. He says: “Rock’n’roll is America’s true gift to the world — the sound of revolution! It came out of the sky, a screaming, chrome-plated flying saucer, like an outer space monster, landed here on Earth so the freaks could have their say. It is the hip-shaking sound of rebellion. The blues is my bible, rock’n’roll is our battle cry!”

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ALEEN ROSE – “THEY’RE THERE” (FT. WILLIE NELSON)

Amy Lee Nelson (daughter of Willie Nelson) and Tina Rose Bridges (daughter of Leon Russell) have a new duo, ALeeN ROSE, and they’ve shared their first single, “They’re There,” which features Willie Nelson. ““Tina Rose called me one evening during lockdown and we spoke about the feelings of loss surrounding the death of her dad,” Amy says. “I told her how I’ve found myself often saying ‘they’re there’ when speaking of loved ones who have passed. I shared with her a song that I had begun writing after having dream visions of my brother, Billy. I asked her to write the second verse as a healing outlet for her pain and grief. I was blown away by the verse she brought back to me. But it still wasn’t finished and we weren’t sure where to take it. We asked my dad for help, and so he wrote the bridge. Now it is a full-on family song, as it should be.” Tina adds, ““Amy’s verse, and the concept of the song in general, was so powerful and I was honored that she invited me to contribute to it. My verse is about a distinct memory I have — of the first time my dad visited me in a dream after he died. It was so comforting, and I genuinely felt as if I got to spend some time with him. It really is true that our loved ones lost are still here with us.”

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WIDOWSPEAK – “SOFT COVER”

Widowspeak’s new album Roses is out next month, and they’ve shared a third preview, “Soft Cover.” Molly Hamilton says it’s “about infatuation: wanting and daydreaming about someone as you’re going about your day… even if, and maybe especially if, you’ve been with them a long time. We brought in a Rhodes for this one, so it came in a car from Athens, then took a boat, then a donkey carried it up to the studio.”

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GRAHAM COXON (BLUR) – “ALRIGHT”

Blur guitarist Graham Coxon is finally letting longtime unreleased solo album Castle Park see the light of day on June 19 and here is a second song from it.

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CAROLINE ROSE – “YIP YIP YOW”

“I wrote ‘Yip Yip Yow’ 10 years ago about feeling like I was born in the wrong time, in the wrong place and probably in the wrong body,” Caroline Rose says. “10 years later the only thing that’s different is I finally have a recording of it I like. I think what’s taken me so long to put it out is a fear of how simple and nonsensical it is, but now that’s a lot of what I listen to. I love to hear all the freaks making two minute songs about rejecting cultures they never really fit into and building their own little worlds instead.”

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ALEX LAHEY – “YOU DON’T THINK YOU LIKE PEOPLE LIKE ME” (FT. TEGAN AND SARA)

Alex Lahey has announced a 10 year anniversary edition of her debut EP, B-Grade University (Reunion Edition) , due out July 17 via Dead Oceans. She’s shared a re-recorded version of the lead single, “You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me,” featuring Tegan and Sara.

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POND – “THROUGH THE HEATHER”

“Sometimes rock and roll is a glamorous game baby, but mainly it isn’t,” says Pond’s Nicholas Allbrook of this new single. “Funny that such a beautiful, melancholic, searching song was born surrounded by chip packets and track pants in a van full of filthy pigs. We had so much fun making the spring reverb thunderclaps, giving the spring a cheeky little pinch to make it go BOOM, looking out over the Indian ocean from our porch/studio in Seabird while MasterChef played silently in the corner. Let that be a lesson to all you young rockers ok? Can’t get too inspiring ya know. Gotta keep a lid on it. Chucking on the telly or making a samwich or having a nap should do it.” New album Terrestrials is out June 19.

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HARMONY TIVIDAD – “MULHOLLAND DRIVE”

Harmony Tividad (formerly of Girlpool) releases her new album Lifetime on June 26 via KRO Records, and the new single is “Mulholland Drive,” which is accompanied by a video directed by Terrence O’Connor.

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OVERMONO – “LOCKUP”

It’s the first single to Welsh dance duo Overmono’s second album .

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HELADO TROPICAL (HELADO NEGRO & REYNA TROPICA) – “TOCANDO”

Roberto Carlos Lange (Helado Negro) and Fabi Reyna (Reyna Tropical) first met in June 2024 in North Carolina, and plans to record a song together soon turned into a whole album . Here’s the first single.

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SHOW ME THE BODY – “NO GOD”

Show Me The Body announced their fourth album, Alone Together , and gave us an early taste with “No God.”

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SHEARWATER – “DAYDREAM UNBELIEVER” & “MORE AND MORE”

Jonathan Meiburg and co will release new Shearwater album The New World in July and you can hear two songs now.

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SONDRE LERCHE – “LITTLE KIDS”

It’s the string-filled first single from Sondre Lerche’s upcoming album Acrobats .

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BLOC PARTY – “COMING ON STRONG”

Bloc Party call Anatomy of a Brief Romance a “record unlike anything we’ve ever done before.”

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_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/21-new-songs-out-today-90/)._