Flea on trumpet, The New Pornographers, Stereolab, Snail Mail, U2 - New music variety

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Flea - Traffic Lights (feat. Tom Yorke) - The Chili Peppers bassist switches to his first love, jazz trumpet, on his first solo album, Honora. Most tracks are instrumentals, but this one features Radiohead's vocalist. 
• The New Pornographers - Ballad of the Last Payphone - Another cut from the just-released The Former Site Of. Paste calls the LP melancholy, with a lyrical theme of "staring down the current state of the world."
• Stereolab - Cloud Land - One of a pair of new tracks just released by the London band. Stereogum calls it "a vast epic with awesomely wormy synths and cool percussive breaks."  
• Snail Mail - Tractor Beam - From Ricochet, the third album from Lindsey Jordan's project. She says this song uses "alien abduction as a metaphor for lost time because of disassociation."
• U2 - Song of the Future - This song from the protest EP Days of Ash honors 16-year-old Sarina Esmailzadeh, an Iranian schoolgirl fatally beaten by security forces after taking part in a Woman, Life, Freedom demonstration in 2022.

Brand-new from Tedeschi Trucks Band, Muse, gladie, Death Cab for Cutie, Paper Crown

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Tedeschi Trucks Band - Crazy Cryin' - We've been spinning the singles "Who Am I" and "I Got You," and now with the release of Future Soul, we're featuring the lead-off track.
• Muse - Be With You - The band's 10th album, The WOW! Signal, has themes of cosmic mystery and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Yet the refrain that gives this song its title is simply romantic. 
• gladie - I Want That For You - Philadelphia's Augusta Koch sounds almost happy on this track from her band's newest LP, which takes it's title from the song's last line: No Need To Be Lonely. 
• Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides - On the other hand, Ben Gibbard sounds world-weary on this slow-building song. It's the first single ahead of June's release of I Built You A Tower. 
• Paper Crown - Four Leaf Clover - We pick another track for the New Music Bin from the just-released Letters, by Norway's guitarist Ørnulv Snortheim and vocalist Johanne Kippersund.  .

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.