London-based singer/songwriter Brooke Bentham shows an impressive versatility when it comes to evoking various strains of indie rock past and present on her debut album 'Everyday Nothing', out February 28. But, as her producer Bill Ryder-Jones said, there's something else special about her - "her lyric writing will be overlooked because of her voice but it is her words that will set her apart from others”. Her latest single is 'Control', but it's ‘Perform For You’ that's her favourite - "because it reminds me of lots of the music I love. Musically it was exactly where I wanted to be”. Her influences: Sylvia Plath, Yo La Tengo, Pavement, Mazzy Star, Carol Ann Duffy...

Experimental art-pop artist Katie Gately has shared her stunning new single 'Waltz'; Chicago art-rock trio FACS have shared their eerie yet breathtaking lead single 'Teenage Hive'; Hillary Woods shared her dark folk song 'Tongues of Wild Boar'; Helen Honey has shared her dark and dramatic song 'Midnight'; Lala Lala has a new short song 'Legs, Run', a promising teaser produced by WHY?; Radical Face released their tender, lovely 'Reveries'; psychedelic rockers Dungen released their new instrumental song 'B1', an easy listening little prog thing; art pop duo CocoRosie is back with 'Aloha Friday', an orchestral song written on Hawaii; Nuxxe co-founder Sega Bodega sings for the first time on 'Salv Goes to Hollywood', an electro art-pop song from his debut album.

Pearl Jam have released 'Dance Of The Clairvoyants', the first single from their new album 'Gigaton', out March 27, the Rolling Stone reports. Jeff Ament wrote on Twitter - “‘Dance’ was a perfect storm of experimentation and real collaboration… We’ve opened some new doors creatively and that’s exciting”. At the first listen it reminds of the change U2 have made in the 1990s with their album 'Pop'. Pearl Jam start a world tour in March.

British soul singer Izo FitzRoy with a mighty voice has released ‘Blind Faith’, the third single from her album ‘How The Mighty Fall’, an up-tempo song about second chances in relationships, a powerfull, dancey, melodic record.

Matt Wilson & His Orchestra released a lovely song 'When I Was a Writer' about Wilson's fear of dementia - "I live so much in my mind and because so much of my joy is in thinking and writing, the idea of the window shutting on that part of my life started to terrify me", he said. Inspirations also come from different places now - "When I was young, I was just awash in hormones like any kid. My greatest inspiration was girls. I don't write about that anymore for the most part. I think a little bit more about life. Trying to be a good person. What does life mean?".

Plenty of good new songs this week - Nadia Reid has released a delicate and atmospheric new record, Drive-By Truckers sing about how thoughts and prayers aren't enough to deal with mass-shootings, emo-core veterans Alexisonfire are reunited and going atmospheric, LA beatmaker TOKiMONSTA gets help from EarthGang on her highly psychedelic song, Ultraista is a band made up of members of Atoms For Peace + vocalist Laura Bettinson, they released a dancey new song, dark-folk singer Myrkur goes theatrical on her new record, modern jazz meets electronica on Wacław Zimpel's new song...

"We are faced with a conundrum about whether or not to remain as consumers, and continually take from the world we live in, or to start looking after our planet" - British Americana singer-songwriter, Robert Vincent said about his newest song 'Conundrum'. It comes out on his new album 'In This Town You're Owned' February 14.

Chicago musician Nez - from the production duo Nez & Rio who produced already for Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, A$AP Rocky, Chance The Rapper - is breaking out on his own with his debut single 'Wild Youngster', deep house jam featuring ScHoolboy Q. "I want to make people feel again. I want to make people dance" he explained the idea behind his debut.

"These two iconic, legendary English fucking rockers that have been through it all are singing about the end of their lives — 'I don't wanna die an ordinary man' — it's fucking great" - Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith said about Ozzy Osbourne's new song 'Ordinary Man'. Elton John plays the piano and sings on it, Slash plays the guitar. Smith plays the drums on the whole album.

Algiers have a new album coming out next week, last songs before that release is dubby trip hop 'We Can't Be Found'; Wolf Parade have a new disco song 'Julia Take Your Man Home', with Spencer Krug singing about "some other, worse version of myself"; Agnes Obel sings beautifully about struggles with falling asleep in […]

Parlophone Records has shared a previously unreleased version of David Bowie's 'The Man Who Sold the World' yesterday on what would have been singer's 73rd birthday. The largely acoustic rendition, recorded in November of 1996, was aired a few months later on Bowie's 50th birthday. 'The Man...' is 50 years young this year, and it is […]

English pianist and singer-songwriter Bill Fay will release his new album 'Countless Branches' next week, and this week he released his newest single 'Salt of the Earth' (watch it below). Fay's appearance in the video is that of an old man (he's 77), but warmth of his voice is like the one of a young […]

Pianos Become the Teeth frontman Kyle Durfey has started a new band Burial Waves, with members of We Were Black Clouds, Deleted Scenes and Flavor Waster. Burial Waves debuted their first song 'Cinema Shame', adding some post-punk to PBTT's post-rock/emo sound. Watch below.

Avantguard pop artist Lyra Pramuk made her debut album 'Fountain' using only her voice, modulated by electronics, exploring "perception of music, rhythms, speech, body, and the relation between technology and humanity, exploring a post-human, non-binary understanding of life". She mixed it with her twin brother Ben, and the title is derived from her family name, […]

The Quietus has an accurate and lovely description on new song 'Haunted And Known' by Six Organs of Admittance: "It starts with Chasny’s acoustic guitar played in hypnotic ribbons, underscoring his whisper-singing and beckoning you closer, before a colossal synth surge overwhelms the track and gives it a whole new topography". It comes out on band's […]

Lee Buford of The Body, Kristin Hayter a.k.a. Lingua Ignota and Dylan Walker of Full of Hell have formed a supergroup Sightless Pit, and have recorded an album, 'Grave of a Dog', out February 21. The first single is 'Kingscorpse' - dark, powerful, haunting, noisy. Listen to it below. Grave of a Dog by Sightless […]

Singer and visual artist Eartheater and experimental duo LEYA have released their digital EP 'Angel Lust', with Eartheater's “vacillating, ethereal” at the forefront. She is backed by LEYA's harpist Marilu Donovan and violinist Adam Markiewicz. Watch the haunting video below.

"I don’t like the idea of being settled. I find it very hard to imagine permanence in any way, and I can’t really get to grips with why. I have a deep need to keep myself alert, and to make sure I’m seeing all the time. I always have to find these ways of uprooting […]

The Canadian indie-rock singer-songwriter has spent a year writing one song a week. He then whittled it down to 14 songs that will come out in February on album 'I Know Now Why You Cry', Exclaim reports. First single from it 'I've Got a Bottle' - about a bottle... of ink... and drink as well […]

The Voidz have released a new "sweetly chill and rather charming pop" song 'Did My Best', with a funny video to go with it with band members hitting on to - sex dolls; Grimes is out with a drum-and-bass inspired '4ÆM'; Peter Bjorn and John are back with a "self-aggrandizing blues love song" 'Idionsynchracy'; Kings […]

An impressive project by the Los Angeles Times – a 50-song mixtape attempting to locate musical intersections both physical and thematic.

Experimental metal band Wrekmeister Harmonies has Swans’ Thor Harris and Xiu Xiu mastermind Jamie Stewart featuring on their new album ‘We Love to Look at the Carnage’, out February 21.

It's a standard now to have Brooklyn Vegan making the best selection on new songs. This week they're not all great, but some do stand out. This week it's: Stormzy with his "hardest, darkest, and most booming" song 'Audacity'; Sam Lee's 'The Moon Shines Bright' with Celtic vibe and Elisabeth Fraser on vocals (below); The […]

Canadian producer Kaytranada released his new single, '10%', which features Kali Uchis (watch below). It comes on his second studio album 'Bubba', out this Friday, featuring contributions from Pharrell Williams, Tinashe, GoldLink, Charlotte Day Wilson, Estelle, VanJess, Masego, Mick Jenkins, and SiR, among others, The Fader reports. Kaytranada won Polaris Music Prize - Canadian Album of the Year […]

Brian Eno has released a new song 'Everything’s on the Up with the Tories', a political satire aimed at UK's Conservative Party (colloquially known as The Tories). It's a fun song, about some not-so-funny subjects like Brexit, National Health Service, unemployment, the pay gap, Donald Trump. All proceeds from it go to aid the homeless.

Sonically, Bambara are somewhere in the space between Nick Cave, goth-rock and melancholy, with new album 'Stray' coming out in February. The band released two songs from it, 'Sing Me To The Street' and 'Serafina', both dealing with death, just like the whole album; listen to both songs below.

"'Silent Scream' was written shortly after I'd woke up in a hotel room not knowing what city I was in or why I was there... By the time I had finished the song, the sun had come up and the hangover I had that morning, I still have to this day" - Andrew Deadman says […]

The Weeknd previewed a new single 'Blinding Lights' in a Mercedes ad, then unveiled the catchy '80s disco-pop song in an Apple Music radio show (listen below). He released one another - a Metro Boomin’-produced 'Heartless', listen lower below.

Parisian band En Attendant Ana released a new song 'Woods', "accessible jangly indie-pop, just a little winsome, just a little motorik, and super catchy" - Brooklyn Vegan describes them quite correctly. It's coming out in January on their second album 'Juillet'; their debut 'Lost and Found' came out last year, listen to it here. 'Woods' - below. […]

Brilliant new disco single 'Anna (Flowers Don't Grow)' is the banging follow up to the 'Combustion', the single so good, we assumed that it couldn't be repeated - the Quietus says enthusiastically about Pregoblin's new song. Band's members have artistic background - songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Alex Sebley is a former member of Saudis and […]