Flying Lotus shares jazzy/soul songs 'Black Gold' featuring Thundercat and 'Between Memories' featuring Niki Randa, both from anime series 'Yasuke'; Tirzah shares 'Send Me', a sparse song with plenty of tension; Ethel Cain goes from calmness to noise on 'Unpunishable'; Wu-Lu goes for a fresh take on rap-rock on 'Times'; Wolf Alice share an indie-rock smash 'Smile'.
Russian electro group Love Object share a dance bomb 'Transparent Woman (Prozrachnaya Zhenschina)' with added cinematic video; psychedelic prog meets post-rock on Elder frontman Nick DiSalvo's 'The Reflecting Pool' which announces his solo debut; Andra Day shares a smooth banger 'Phone Dies' produced by Anderson .paak; Alfa Mist shares jazz-electronics-psych mix 'Teki'; Rodrigo Y Gabriela have covered Astor Piazzolla's flamenco instrumental 'Oblivion'.
Fiona Apple covers Sharon Van Etten’s 'Love More' for Van Etten's 'Ten' anniversary reissue, adding heartbeat drums and subtle piano to the song; Low cover Bob Dylan’s 'Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door' for the Uncut compilation 'Dylan Revisited'; The Black Keys share their version of 'Crawling Kingsnake' by Big Joe Williams, from their album of Mississippi hill country blues standards 'Delta Kream', out May 14.
London based rapper Berwyn shares a smooth '100,000,000', following in the rich British lyrical tradition; Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley share a psychotic jazz groove 'Broken Mirror (A Selfie Reflection) /Composition 9'; José González announces his new album with gentle and personal 'Visions'; 'Instrumental' is the highpoint of Samba Touré's latest album.
Jim Ward of the At The Drive-In, delivers a positive message "to die a better man" on 'Paper Fish', with help from friends, members of Incubus and Thursday; Keen Dreams share dream pop song 'Pinks & Reds'; Trade Wind shares atmospheric indie rock 'Die! Die! Die!' together with a morbid video; Mina Tindle shares a pretty live version of 'Give A Little Love'.
Coleman Williams, aka IV, the son of Hank Williams III and the fourth generation of the Hank Williams’ line, shared his hard rock country debut 'Son of Sin', singed as IV and the Strange Band; Darkside - the duo of Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington - shared 'The Limit', a laid-back noisey dark-club tune; Assertion share an emo/post-hardcore song 'Deeper in the Shallow'.
Sorry share their new EP, including the moody 'Don't Be Scared'; Cigar Cigarette teamed up with MOTHERMARY for an industrial cover of Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time'; Beachy Head, the new group featuring members of Slowdive, Casket Girls, and Flaming Lips, share slow and psychedelic 'All Gone'; Du Blonde shared anthemic single - 'All The Way'; Paris-based artist Poté presents his debut album with 'Young Lies', featuring Damon Albarn; Detroit rapper Bruiser Wolf shares a jazz/funky 'Syndicate' from his latest album; Mark Mallman shares sad happy song 'For Love I Will Let Love Go'; St. Lenox tackles religion from a not-so-particularly-religious point in 'Deliverance'.
Sons Of Kemet share groovey 'Hustle' featuring Kojey Radical; Moist go pop-rawk on 'End of the Ocean'; Wavves share a seemingly feel-good song 'Sinking Feeling' about depression; bedroom pop meets hyperpop on Spill Tab's 'Pistolwhip'; Toronto poet Mustafa offers words of peace and hope on sad, sad 'Ali'; Rejjie Snow's 'Relax' says it all with the title.
Xiu Xiu share a new video for smooth 'Sad Mezcalita', featuring Sharon Van Etten; The Joy Formidable share a power-pop 'Into the Blue'; Gojira go tribal on 'Amazonia'; Jesse Malin shares a raaawk'n'raaawl 'The Way We Used To Roll'; Dallas rapper Bobby Sessions delivers some strong verses on 'Cog in the Machine'.
Vijay Iyer Trio share some groovy piano virtuosity with 'UnEasy'; Paul McCartney seems much younger in a Beck remix of 'Find My Way' - the younger musician got the idea for the mix remembering seeing McCartney dance; supergroup Satanic Planet (featuring members of Slayer, Locust and Planet B) share their first song - a, obviously, satanic industrial electro 'Baphomet'; Mysie shares an R'n'B velvet 'Keep Up With Your Heart'; Luminous Kid shares an emotional same-sex song 'Mountain Crystals’ featuring spoken word by Phoebe Bridgers; U.N.K.L.E. just go dancing on 'If We Don't Make It'.
John Grant shares Cate Le Bon-produced atmospheric Americana 'Boy From Michigan'; Svalbard vocalist Serena Cherry shares a dark metal song 'Labyrinthian' from her Noctule project; just some classic hip-hop - a new video of 'Nutshell Pt. 2' by the late A Tribe Called Quest MC Phife Dawg, featuring Busta Rhymes and Redman, produced by J Dilla; members of Vex, Obsequiae, Panopticon, and Horrendous form black-death project Aduanten, share 'The Drowning Tide'.
Manchester Orchestra turn to dance rock on 'Bed Head', but those unmissable vocals are intact; Ben Howard is at his most relaxed and content on 'Far Out'; Bloodside is the new music/visual art project by AJ Lambert (daughter of Nancy Sinatra, and granddaughter of Frank, obviously), Protomartyr guitarist Greg Ahee and Preoccupations drummer Mike Wallace - 'Pica' is their first anything; Moraines share ambient yet uplifting post-rock 'The Brute', the first single from their upcoming debut album.
There's plenty of tension in that calmness at the beginning of live session version of 'The Code' by London-based Ethiopian-singer model Egyptian Alewya and British jazz drummer Moses Boyd. After the build-up, it turns into powerful rock/jazz/global territory. Previously, the two have recorded a live version of her song 'Sweating'.
Carlos Niño is joined by Jamael Dean and Shabaka Hutchings on the meditative minimal jazz 'Please, Wake Up'; Mick Jenkins shares 'Designer Frames' produced by Kaytranada in his signature dance-rap style; Writhing Squares' 'Chart for the Solution' is an 11-minute one-chord jam; DeVotchKa shares nice orchestral movie-music 'Lose You in the Crowd' from 'The True Adventures of Wolfboy'; Helado Negro covers Deerhunter’s 'Futurism' for a new compilation featuring artists from the 4AD's roster covering songs from throughout the label’s 40-year archive.
Adrian Crowley shares a bit of psychedelia indie with 'Northbound Stowaway'; Human Impact offer dirty industrial rock on 'Recognition'; DJ Muggs and Rome Streetz go old-school hip-hop on 'Ace of Swords'; Kele of Bloc Party shares a hypnotic guitar loop on 'The Heart of the Wave'; afrobeat meets hip-hop on 'Cosmosis' by the late Tony Allen featuring Skepta & Ben Okri; Chronixx cries for peace (and legal ganja) on psychedelic reggae 'Safe N Sound'; former post-hardcore band Trophy Scars deliver an Americana-blues song 'Father: Part I'.
Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard share a baroque pop 'We, Us the Pharaohs'; Skullcrusher goes totally mellow on 'Storm in Summer'; Lucy Dacus is minimal yet tense on 'Thumbs'; (almost) anonymous band Fuckin Whatever share psych-pop song 'Trash'; Sophie completed the collaborative track 'JSLOiPNHIE' with Jlin just before they died; Nadja share ambient industrial sludge song 'Luminous Rot'; Oddisee is laid back on 'No Trouble'; actor and singer Matt Berry shares a psychedelic instrumental 'Aboard'; Sarah Neufeld shares 'With Love and Blindness' from her new album, which documents an “intense, heart-wrenching, insane two years” in her life; Home Is Where share post-rock screamo 'Sewn Together From The Membrane Of The Great Sea Cucumber'.
Foxing share a grand indie-rock/emo song 'Speak With The Dead' of near-epic proportions; Yerba Mansa shares violin noise in supremely-titled 'Jesus Christ Motorbike II'; Japanese screamos Lang share an easy-flowing 'Night Reeds'; Lyon-based Sathönay plays saz, an instrument similar to lute, on eastern Europe-influenced 'Doppio Picchio Verde'; Rachika Nayar shares ambient and noisy 'Losing Too Is Still Ours'; Greek black-metallers share a proggy 'The Sorcereer Above The Clouds'.
St Vincent looks inside her family with her new album made while her father was getting out of prison (spent 9 years there for $43 million stock fraud), 'Pay Your Way In Pain' is the first glimpse into it; Duendita brings soul to a jazz band with 'Open Eyes'; steel pan player Fimber Bravo announces his new album with an afrobeat banger 'Hiyah Man'; 'Flock' is the stand-out track from Jane Weaver's new eclectic psych-pop album of the same name; this is just lovely - Suede's Brett Anderson and Nadine Shah cover Mercury Rev's 'Holes' with help from Paraorchestra, the world's first large-scale integrated virtuoso ensemble of professional disabled and non-disabled musicians; Maple Glider presents her great voice on 'Good Thing'; Julianknxx shares his activist hip-hop poetry on 'Basement'.
Moroccans Innov Gnawa announce their debut album with an easy listening global epic 'Chorfa'; Finneas and Ashe have reunited for a new duet, 'Till Forever Falls Apart', cheezy yet romantic earworm; post-metal Canadians BIG | BRAVE build tension on 'Half Breed' without ever releasing it.
Alfa Mist announces his new album with jazzy-hip-hop single 'Organic Rust'; "rocky pop" band Wolf Alice share their grand new ballad 'The Last Man On Earth'; Damon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble share a jazzy afrobeat song 'NOW (Forever Momentary Space)'; Mattie shares an electro r'n'b song 'Human Thing'; Bomba Estéreo goes tribal pop on 'Aqua'.
'Bad Dreams' is the stand-out song from Indigo Sparke's new album 'Echo'; NoName shares funk/jazzy groove-banger 'Rainforest'; Hannah Jadagu shares some happy melancholia with 'Think Too Much'; The Armed go raaawk on 'All Futures'; Francis of Delirium share rock'n'cool song 'Let It All Go'.
Lovely and sad The Natvral's 'New Moon' is about when love just isn't enough; nasimiYu steps into big-sounding R'n'B territory with 'Watercolor'; Visionist share a dark industrial pop 'Form'; J.I.D. raps about the syphilis experiment at the American south on 'Skegee'.
Singer-songwriter Jim Ghedi shares his new album 'In the Furrows Of Common Place' with 'Beneath the Willow' as the stand-out track; Adrianne Lenker shares the new Big Thief song 'Simulation Swarm', played by her alone; Debbie Friday shares a dark electro-pop song 'Runnin''; José González is back with his first new song in six years, Spanish-sung 'El Invento'; female trio Horsegirl share their dreampop/shoegaze single 'Ballroom Dance Scene'.
John Myrtle is so sweetly nostalgic in 'Get Her Off My Mind'; Manchester Orchestra share a new song, dancey 'Bed Head', what remains the same is that great Hull's vocal; Gojira share proggy, melodic and mat0hy 'Born For One Thing'; Arab Strap, who obviously miss nightly activities, share clubby 'Here Comes Comus!', accompanied by a slightly shocking video.
Italian progressive metal band Benthos shares ephemeral 'Debris // Essence'; Maria BC shares 'Adelaide' from their minimal synth-pop debut EP; For Your Health share melodic punk screamo 'Push the Fucking Rock Sissy'; Debby Friday shares her banging pop song 'Runnin''; Spectral Wound share their melodic black metal assault 'Frigid and Spellbound'.
Mogwai share a 'Pat Stains' featuring sax-magician Colin Stetson who adds tension to the calming song; Anika Pyle goes simple and comforting on 'Blame'; So Badly turn to dream pop on 'Harley Davidson'.
Yves Jarvis drops the only freest song today - 'Projection'; Tyler, The Creator & A$AP Rocky share a funky banger 'Jingelin'; Cassandra Jenkins' 'Crosshairs' is as light and easy as the snow where the video was shot; Jay-Z shares his Nipsey Hussle collab 'What It Feels Like' from the 'Judas & the Black Messiah' soundtrack; Cult of Luna share a doom-sludge EP with 'I Remember' as the stand-out track from it; UK grime masters Digga D x AJ Tracey share ‘Bringing It Back’.
Fucked Up release an epic 19-minute punk beast 'Year Of The Horse – Act One'; Night Beats are part psychedelia part garage in 'New Day', a fun strange song; The Armed release a familiar-sounding yet new 'All Futures'; it took Neil Young decades to share his folk-waltz 'Daughters', well it's here now.
Miss Grit releases noise-y and club-y 'Grow Up To'; a nice touch on 'Sixers' - hip-hop producer Old City samples Black Flag; one jazz great Alan Braufman gets remixed by one other jazz great - Angel Bat Dawid, on 'Sunrise'; Death From Above 1979 just play some rawk on 'One + One'; Julien Baker is joined by her boygenius bandmates Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus on 'Favor'; producer Adrian Younge shared a moving/disturbing 'American Negro'; hip-hop producer The Lasso of Small Bills shares the collaboration with Hemlock Ernst of Future Islands - 'Will We Be Us Again'.
Afghan-born Hamburg-based producer Farhot shares 'Feel Ugly' featuring soulful Tiggs Da Author; Drakeo the Ruler shares mellow and ice-cool 'Too Icey'; Miss Lava share heavy and melodic psychedelia in 'Brotherhood of Eternal Love'; Algiers' members Lee Tesche and Ryan Mahan share a dark clubby song 'Stealth Empire' by their project Nun Gun; DJINN share a bit of exotic psychedelia 'Love Divine'.
