Collabs by Courtney Barnett/Waxahatchee, Arkells/Grouplove, Lost Leaders/Amy Helm, plus Brooke Annibale, The Legal Matters

Photos by Ben Kaye, Consequence of Sound

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Courtney Barnett - Site Unseen (feat. Waxahatchee) - The Australian singer-songwriter teams up Katie Crutchfield, aka Waxahatchee, on this track from Barnett's upcoming album Creature of Habit.
• Arkells, Grouplove - Ride - The band from Hamilton, Ont., invited the group from LA to join them on this latest single to spin out from Arkell's Between Us LP, due next month. 
• Lost Leaders feat. Amy Helm - Atalanta - Lost Leaders Byron Isaacs and Peter Cole created the soundtrack for an indie film, Run, about a woman running a marathon amid personal turmoil. They recruited Helm for this song, named for a swift-footed Greek mythological huntress.
• Brooke Annibale - My Favorite Part - The Rhode Island-based indie singer-songwriter released this single a couple of weeks ago as she wrapped up Kickstarter fundraising for her next album. Killer lyric: "I broke my heart so I wouldn't break yours."
• The Legal Matters - It Doesn't Matter - We recently featured "The Message" from this Michigan indie-pop band, and here's another track from their new album, Lost At Sea.

The New Pornographers, Adult Leisure, Digsby, The Blue Herons, Sam Fender + Olivia Dean

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Sam Fender and Olvia Dean - Rein Me In - A remake of a song from Fender's People Watching LP, with Dean contributing a new verse as well as her vocal.
• The New Pornographers - Spooky Action - The third track to spin out ahead of the upcoming album The Former Site Of.
• Adult Leisure - The Light You Attract - This single is the follow-up to the Bristol, UK, band's 2025 debut album, The Things You Don't Know Yet.
• Digsby - Long Time Dead - Also hailing from Bristol, this group just released its debut album, Death of the Party. This song is a reminder to live for today because you'll spend a long time, well, not living.
• The Blue Herons - Fight or Flight - A single from the upcoming album Demon Slayer by the transatlantic dreampop duo of Andy Jossi (Switzerland) and Gretchen DeVault (USA).

Latest from Iron and Wine, Melissa Etheridge, Mitski, Dry Cleaning, Mumford & Sons

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Iron & Wine - Robin's Egg (feat. I'm With Her) - Sam Beam's eighth album, Hen's Teeth, was recorded during the same sessions as Light Verse. This LP has darker, earthier textures, but the I'm With Her trio (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O'Donovan) add lightness to this track.
• Melissa Etheridge - Bein' Alive - One of the latest nominees to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame releases this single from her first studio album in five years, Rise.
• Mitski - Where's My Phone? - This oh-so-common question takes on a sense of paranoia and dread in this track from Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, her eighth album.
• Dry Cleaning - Joy - On this track from the South London post-punk band’s third studio album, Secret Love,, Florence Shaw talk-sings about staying positive in "a horror land."
• Mumford & Sons & Chris Stapleton - Here - With the release of the band's Prizefighter LP comes this moody track about memories attached to accumulated objects.

U2, The Lone Bellow, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Mumford and Sons, Joe Pernice bring the news

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• U2 - Yours Eternally - An imagined letter from a Ukrainian soldier on the front line, this track closes Days of Ash, a surprise-released EP of songs commenting on current events - from the recent killing of Renee Good by government agents in Minneapolis to the 2022 killing of Sarina Esmailzadeh by government agents in Iran.
• The Lone Bellow - After the Rain - The opening number from the band's just-released album, What A Time To Be Alive.
• Tedeschi Trucks Band - Who Am I - The second single to emerge from the Florida ensemble's upcoming Future Soul LP.
• Mumford and Sons - Run Together - Perhaps the most classically Mumford track on the trio's new album, Prizefighter.
• Joe Pernice - Deep Into the Dawn - We're long-time fans of Aimee Mann, and her duet on this track introduced us to Pernice, an indie musician and songwriter who has led several bands over the years and will soon release his first solo album, Sunny, I Was Wrong.

The New Pornographers, Cardinals, Ace of Wands, Krooked Tongue, Arkells in the new music bin

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• The New Pornographers - Pure Sticker Shock - Sterogum calls this track from the upcoming LP The Former Site Of "a bubbly synthpop jam about crippling self-doubt."
• Cardinals - St. Agnes - Masquerade, the debut full-length from this five-piece band from Cork, Ireland, is a "festival-ready banger,' says NME.
• Ace of Wands - Edge of the Edge - The Toronto art-rock band describes this single as embracing the sense of "leaping off the edge into the unknown future."
• Krooked Tongue - Blood Shark - With two EPs under their belt, this band from Bristol, UK, is bringing out its debut LP, I Know a Place, in April.
• Arkells - Next Summer - The next LP from the band from Hamilton, Ont., Between Us, is also due in April.