There’s so much music coming out all the time that it’s hard to keep track. On those days when the influx of new tracks is particularly overwhelming, we sift through the noise to bring you a curated list of the most interesting new releases (the best of which will be added to our Best New Songs playlist). Below, check out our track roundup for Tuesday, April 14, 2026.
MUNA – ‘Wannabeher’
MUNA’s latest single, ‘Wannabeher’, is billed as “our version of Bikini Kill’s ‘Rebel Girl’,” which makes it an easy sell. “It’s about the experience of really admiring someone and feeling confused about whether you want to be them or be with them or both,” they elaborated. “A gay canon event.” The dazzlingly catchy track, lifted from Dancing on the Wall, arrives with a video directed by Dante Capone.
Snarls – ‘No Lock, No Prayer’
Snarls have announced a new EP, In Heaven There’s Rainbows, arriving on June 26. The grungy, propulsive lead single ‘No Lock, No Prayer’ comes paired with a video from director Alex Scalzo-Brown.
Nation of Language – ‘Tougher Than the Rest’ (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
There’s a lineage of great ‘Tougher Than the Rest’ covers, including from indie-leaning acts like Angel Olsen and Camera Obscura, and now Nation of Language have offered their own take on the Tunnel of Love classic. “Like so many young New Jersey residents, I grew up listening to Springsteen, but this song somehow slipped by me during that formative era,” the band’s Ian Devaney explained. “I was really only exposed to it within the last few years, and it’s followed me around since then. I can remember finishing a particularly emotional show somewhere deep in last year’s tour, and our sound engineer, Skinny, started playing it as our exit music. It caught me so hard that I stayed there, just offstage, and listened to the rest of the song blasting, mixed with the sounds of all of the people milling about the venue. When we ultimately endeavored that we might try doing our own version of the song, we luckily had a Yamaha CS-80 at our disposal, the same synth model which featured pretty heavily across the Tunnel of Love sessions back in ’87. Knowing we were working with some of the same textures as the original made it a little less daunting to cover Bruce.”
Tori Amos – ‘Gasoline Girls’
Tori Amos has served up another preview of the upcoming album In Times of Dragons. Following previous entries ‘Stronger Together’ and ‘Shush’, ‘Gasoline Girls’ amps up the rock instrumentation, though in a somewhat subversive way, given that it seems to be about a lesbian motorcycle gang – allegorically, of course. “This is a metaphor for many different transformations – from a teenage girl becoming a woman, to shifts in gender identity or fundamental belief systems, to the life changes that come with pregnancy, motherhood and eventually menopause,” Amos explained. “The song explores the emotions that come with leaving one version of yourself behind and stepping into another.”
Deerhoof and The Sound Sactuary – ‘Plants! Prosper!’ and ‘Plants! Make Noise! Here we are’
Deerhoof are always up to all sorts of bizarre collaborations. In just ten days, the band’s Greg Saunier will release a new album with Curt Sydnor, under the moniker of Bach Artillerie, playing the Goldberg canons of J.S. Bach. Today, they’ve got a new project with The Sound Sanctuary, which you might assume is an underground noise band. In fact, it is the “multi-species plant ensemble” housed in the office of the band’s label home, Joyful Noise, comprising a money tree (Pachira aquatica) and four rubber trees (Ficus elastica). I’m going to assume the money tree is the leader here. Anyway, this explains the titles of these new tracks, which total 22 minutes. Karl Hofstetter, founder of Joyful Noise Recordings, frames the Sound Sanctuary as the “opposite of AI,” harnessing the curiously reactive nature of plant consciousness. Labelmates Kishi Bashi, Butthole Surfers’ JD Pinkus, and WHY?’s Yoni Wolf have lined up improvisational records with the ensemble.
Waxahatchee – ‘Where’s Your Love Now?’ (This Is Lorelei Cover)
MJ Lenderman’s take on This Is Lorelei’s ‘Dancing in the Club’ was by far my favorite cover of 2025, and there’s a very good chance Waxahatchee’s version of ‘Where’s Your Love Now?’ takes that spot this year. The track has become a staple of Katie Crutchfield’s live show, and the studio rendition, featuring backing from Nate Amos himself, arrives today ahead of the deluxe edition of Box for Buddy, Box for Star. Crutchfield also just kicked off her co-headlining tour with MJ Lenderman in Atlanta, where she announced her pregnancy. Congratulations are in order!
SPELLLING – ‘Ammunition’ [feat. Jean Dawson]
SPELLLING has teamed up with Jean Dawson for a new version of the Portrait of My Heart track ‘Ammunition’, which really works well as a duet. It follows ‘Destiny Arrives’ featuring Weyes Blood and ‘Portrait of My Heart’ featuring Turnstile’s Brendan Yates as the latest in a series of remixes from her latest album. “[This is] ‘Ammunition’ reimagined as the duet I always intended and heard it to be. We laced the original’s romantic R&B into a grittier, cathedral-of-synths version,” Chrystia Cabral shared.” A dark fairytale turned electric. Jean’s voice is a mirror to the song’s strange soul; our outsider hearts collide. I think Jean channels that same retro-soul weirdness I grew up on, and our chemistry makes the love story feel more urgent. We lean into being beautiful misfits searching for refuge; co-produced and brought to life by Psymun.”
Fire-Toolz – ‘Where Is the Heart? I’ve Searched My Entire Home’ [feat. Jennifer Holm]
The first single from Fire-Toolz’s upcoming album, ‘Balam =^..^= Says IPv09082024 Strawberry Head’, made our list of the best songs of March. Today, we get to hear another one, ‘Where Is the Heart? I’ve Searched My Entire Home’, which is more outwardly soulful, thanks in part to a guest appearance from Americana singer Jennifer Holm. “Now imagine a Nashville mom who sings on country albums and in her church band, being asked by an interfaith transfeminine anarchist from Chicago to sing on her screamy, noisy electronic album,” Angel Marcloid said in press materials.
Hunx and His Punx – ‘Dead to Me’
Hunx and His Punx have a new EP on the way, The Punkettes, which will be released as a 7” double single on May 29 via Get Better Records. ‘Dead to Me’, their take on the classic girl group revenge tune, is out now.
BCMC – ‘Kaleidosmoke’
Bill MacKay and Cooper Crain have announced their sophomore album as BCMC, Stash, due June 26 via Drag City. It’s led by the hazy, aptly titled ‘Kaleidosmoke’, which takes cues from Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, and Iron Butterfly.
Widowspeak – ‘No Driver’
Widowspeak have previewed their forthcoming album Roses with a mesmerizing new song, ‘No Driver’. It “is about knowing and loving people who seem to thrive being on autopilot, at least for a while,” according to vocalist Molly Hamilton. “It’s written from the perspective of trying to be supportive, and knowing it can be kind of magic when you’re in it, but also just waiting patiently for whenever they’re ready to move on from destructive behavior. I also kind of wrote it to my younger self. I’m 1000% on the other side of my wilder years (quit drinking almost seven years ago and now have a baby) but I definitely felt aimless for a long time. I care now, and caring about things and people and having a reason… is the whole point.”
The Laughing Chimes – ‘Behind Your Blue Fields’ and ‘Trapeze Baby’
Athens, Ohio band the Laughing Chimes have announced a new demos collection, Behind Your Blue Fields – out May 22 – and shared two jangly highlights, ‘Behind Your Blue Fields’ and ‘Trapeze Baby’. It presents an alternate vision of their second album, before the decision to “go goth.” Evan Seurkamp explained, “The concept of a ‘wow unreleased Chimes demo compilation!’ developed quickly in the wake of a lo fi rock resurgence among our peers (Good Flying Birds, Sharp Pins, Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Little Chair). I had dusted off my Tascam 4-track a few months ago and subsequently rediscovered a scattered assortment of demos that Laughing Chimes had recorded over the last several years. My original plan was to throw an EP’s worth of songs up on Bandcamp, but as I continued to dig through my desk drawer of old tapes, I suddenly amassed a collection of 13-ish discarded tracks.”
Genghis Tron – ‘I Am All’
Genghis Tron have announced their fourth full-length album, Signal Fire, co-produced and mixed by Seth Manchester (Model/Actriz, Battles, Big Brave). The pummeling, eruptive ‘I Am All’ leads the LP, which arrives June 12. “’Signal Fire’ envisions a Kojima-esque dystopia of endless proxy warfare,”vocalist and lyricist Tony Wolski (The Armed) shared, “where the deluge of available information has outmoded the human ability to parse it. A world where those amoral, shameless and cunning enough can literally reshape the reality at their whim through sheer insistence. Honestly, this is probably about, like, late 2027…”
Terra Twin – ‘Parking Lot’
Terra Twin have announced a new EP, Scumbag, arriving June 2, with the spindly, infectious lead single ‘Parking Lot’. “This song exists as a funhouse that pits an airy dreamscape against the raw reality of a dysfunctional relationship,” the band said in a press release.
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