Forget March – It’s May Music Madness. This is going to be a HUGE month for new releases, if today is any indication.
We’ve got new albums out today be stars like Kacey Musgraves and Young the Giant, critical darlings like Tori Amos and Hiss Golden Messenger, alternative heroes like The Toadies (read our review here), UltraBomb (read my review here) and American Football, and up-and-comers like Cape Crush (read my review here) and Pope (read our review here).
Melodic post-punkers Editors teased a comeback this week, and brought out a striking new song to cement their return. We have the second song from Death Cab for Cutie‘s upcoming album, and an ear worm jam from rapper Vince Staples. The wonderful folk singer Joy Oladokun is back with a new song, and we’ve got the latest from young alt rocker Violet Grohl. Canadian rock songwriter TALK has signed with one of the hottest labels of the moment, Big Loud Rock, and shared his debut single for them.
Bleachers’ new album is almost here, and the group has dropped one more teaser from the collection. Classic rockers Europe are back with an epic new song, while Rat Boy have gone into self-production mode on their addictive new jam. The Menzingers announced their new album this week with a heart-tugging new song, and Finn Wolfhard takes inspiration from the infamous Kanye/Taylor Swift Grammy kerfuffle for his new rollicking jam. O.A.R. have dropped the second song from their next album, as have alt rockers Sparta.
More artists you may recognize from previous NMFs back this week include Thirsty Curses, Sawyer Hill, Fitz and the Tantrums, Taj Mahal, Satya, Some One’s Sons, Cinema Stare, The High Curbs, FILM, The Bug Club, Cinder Well, Valley Boy, The Dave Black Expression, Super Sometimes, Christopher Ardra, Big D and the Kids Table, FEA, Fai Laci, lovelytheband, Easy Honey, Florence Dore, Northcote, The Doomstompers, Anna Graves, Jonah Marks, The Beaches, Banda AL9, Dirty Heads, Bike Routes, Jensen McRae, Weird Nightmare, Nia Archives, Marcus King and Mayday Parade.
And we love to feature fresh faces here every week. This week, get introduced to Keith Wayne, Raj Saint Paul, Jenny Gillespie Mason, Louis Emory and the Reckless Few, Orange Gone, Ben Crosland, Toy Car, Drakulas, Luluc, Killah Cortez, KulfiGirls, Hew, Canned Pineapple, Muki, Lowrev, King Falcon, Nina Winder-Lind, Knats, Moon Riivr, Courtney Hadwin, Rosalie Chilvers, Ike Dweck and Keyland.
There’s so much to hear, so get streaming all of this new music in our New Music Friday Playlist!
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