New songs: Peter Gabriel, Kylie Minogue, Troye Sivan, more

Jul 20, 2023

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.

KYLIE MINOGUE – “TENSION”

Following the success of her summer banger “Padam,” Kylie Minogue heads into the fall with the title track off her upcoming album Tension.

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TEEZO TOUCHDOWN – “YOU THOUGHT” (ft. JANELLE MONÁE)

Teezo Touchdown’s debut album How Do You Sleep At Night? comes out next week (9/8), and its latest single is pretty genuinely epic. It’s got rap parts, rock parts, soul parts, Janelle Monáe guest vocals–the works.

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MAXO KREAM – “BONE CRUSHER” (ft. KEY GLOCK)

After debuting his new songs “Bone Crusher” and “Mo Murda” on Flight Club Fridays last week, Maxo Kream has now released the studio version of “Bone Crusher.” It samples/interpolates Bone Crusher’s classic “Never Scared” and features Key Glock, and it’s a real banger.

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TROYE SIVAN – “RUSH” (FT. PINKPANTHERESS & HYUNJIN OF STRAY KIDS)

PinkPantheress and Hyunjin of Stray Kids join Troye Sivan on a new remix of his horny summer anthem.

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ALEX LAHEY – “EGO IS NOT A DIRTY WORD” (SKYHOOKS COVER)

Alex Lahey covered the title track of Skyhooks’ 1975 album Ego Is Not a Dirty Word for the 50th anniversary of Australian label Mushroom Records. “This song has so much energy and passion,” she told Rolling Stone Australia. “I don’t think I could ever conceive a song like this with all its unpredictable twists and turns.”

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YEULE – “INFERNO”

Ahead of the release of their new album softscars, yeule shared a fourth new track, “Inferno.” “The song is a gash, scar no.9,” they say. “In this scar I ask the blue flame in my heart, will you ever fade? When you are engulfed and eaten in blue, what was left of me were parts of you.”

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DEVENDRA BANHART – “NUN”

Devendra says his song “Nun” was actually written in a Nunnery in Northern Nepal. “It’s a simple metaphor: we can run to something, run for something, run out of something…an archetype with plenty of elasticity.” Devendra’s new album, Flying Wig, was produced by Cate Le Bon and will be out September 22.

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PETER GABRIEL – “LOVE CAN HEAL”

Peter Gabriel is releasing his first album of new material in two decadessas singles released every month on the full moon. The Super Moon / Blue Moon edition is “Love Can Heal” which Gabriel has been playing live for a while. “‘Love Can Heal was written around 2016 and I did start playing it midway through the tour and dedicated it to Jo Cox, who was the British MP brutally murdered by an extremist and someone that I had met at a leadership conference,” says Gabriel. “I think the song fits right in to the themes of the album in the sense that i/o is about feeling and being connected to everything and in a way, the next evolution of being connected to things is a feeling of love for everything.’”

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JAKE SHEARS SHARES – “I USED TO BE IN LOVE” (YAME & LE CHEV REMIXES)

Former Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears has given out his single “I Used to Be In Love” to be remixed and here are two great ones from Yame an dLe Chev.

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THE HANDSOME FAMILY – “THE OLDEST WATER”

The Handsome Family’s new album Hollow is out next week, and they’ve shared another early taste, “The Oldest Water.” “The world’s oldest water resides miles down a Canadian mine,” Rennie Sparks says. “It is 2 billion years old and teeming with life. What better to sing about?”

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JHARIAH – “RISK, RISK, RISK!”

Brooklyn-based musician Jhariah shared fired-up new single “Risk, Risk, Risk!” ahead of their fall tour with Pinkshift. “”I wrote this song about desperately wanting to live up to my potential,” they say.

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’68 – “REMOVED THEIR HOOKS”

’68, the rock band fronted by former The Chariot/Norma Jean vocalist Josh Scogin, have announced a new album, Yes, and…, and you can read about new single “Removed Their Hooks” here.

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CAULDRON – “REJECTION PACT”

UK metalcore band Cauldron have announced their debut full-length album, Suicide In The City, and you can read about lead single “Rejection Pact” here.

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