New music by Mavis Staples, Silversun Pickups, Snocaps, The Gold Needles, Kilowatt Parade

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Mavis Staples - Chicago - From Sad and Beautiful World comes this cover of a song by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan about a family migrating from a stagnant countryside to a strange city. The band includes Buddy Guy and Derek Trucks, with Sam Beam on backing vocals. 
• Silversun Pickups - The Wreckage - The first single from the Los Angeles quartet's upcoming LP Tenterhooks, due in February.
• Snocaps - Brand New City - Snocaps is a new project from sister musician/singers Allison and Katie (Waxahatchee) Crutchfield, joined by MJ Lenderman and producer Brad Cook, who plays bass on this track.
• The Gold Needles - Crescent Moon - This Burbank band brings a very California sound to this track from Mood Elevator, coming out in December.
• Kilowatt Parade - Bargain Perfume - The latest single from the project of Ottawa songwriter Andre Nault.

Inhaler, Arkells, Brandi Carlile, Terra Lightfoot and more Goose added to our big mix

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Inhaler - Hole In The Ground - The single comes less than a year after the Irish band's Open Wide album.
• Arkells - What Good? - The first taste of the Ontario band's next album, coming in 2026.
• Brandi Carlile - Human - A track from the new album Returning To Myself
• Terra Lightfoot - Already There In My Mind - From Home Front, an album written and recorded in Lightfoot's peaceful home in the woods.
• Goose - Madelena - We wanted to pull one more track from Chain Yer Dragon before it got too old to be called "new music." 

Catching up with the latest tracks added to our New Music Bin

We've fallen behind in blog-posting about the latest tunes added to our Marvelous Mix. But here are the songs currently in our top-of-the-hour New Music rotation:

• Mumford & Sons - Rubber Band Man (with Hozier)
• The Strumbellas - Come Back Around
• Faded Paper Figures - Out of Control
• Foo Fighters - Asking for a Friend
• The Beths - Roundabout





• Flock of Dimes - Keep Me In The Dark
• John Gorka - No Time to Cry
• Spoon - Guess I'm Falling In Love
• Tame Impala - Afterthought
• Don't Believe in Ghosts - Outta Your Head





• Trombone Shorty - Line Em Up
• Lights - Education
• Wolf Alice - Passenger Seat
• Shayla McDaniel - Wild Dreamer
• Modern Dandelion - Always

New Marcus King, Alice Merton, Almost Monday, reissued Emmylou Harris and reunited Strawberry Alarm Clock

Marcus King Band - Carolina Honey

After a couple of solo albums, Marcus King has put his band back together and brought in some guests for Darling Blue, his first full-band album since 2018.

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Alice Merton - Ignorance Is Bliss

This is the lead single for the German-Canadian-British artist's third studio album, Visions, due in January. "I wrote this song with the mindset of ignoring the outside voices and focusing on what I think I can do with my life."

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Almost Monday - Lost

The San Diego trio says its latest single is "about escapism and finding yourself by leaving what you know behind and opening yourself to the possibilities of the future.

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Emmylou Harris - Deeper Well

We're cheating a bit by putting a 27-year-old recording in the New Music Bin. It's from an upcoming re-issue of the 1998 live album Spyboy.

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Strawberry Alarm Clock - Monsters

Yes, it's THAT Strawberry Alarm Clock, best known for 1967's "Incense and Peppermints." They reunited and put out an album in 2012, and recently signed with Big Stir Records. An album is in the works, but this track is being released early as part of a Halloween compilation.

New music from Yukon Blonde, Sloan, Goose, Tune-Yards, Robert Plant

Yukon Blonde: Phaedra

We pull another cool track from Friendship & Rock 'n' Roll, the latest album from the group from British Columbia.

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Sloan: Dream Destroyer

The veteran Canadian indie-rockers just released their 14th album, Based on the Best Seller.

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Goose: Hot Love & the Lazy Poet

Here's another selection from the Connecticut jam band's second album of 2025: Chain Yer Dragon. The track is their first studio recording of a song that's been in their live shows for years.

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Tune-Yards: Sand Into Stone

While Goose released two full albums this year, Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner put out one and a half. This is from the new EP Tell The Future With Your Body.

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Robert Plant: Everybody's Song

This is a cover of a 20-year-old song by the band Low. It's from Plant's new album Saving Grace, which is also the name of the band he put together for the project, featuring vocalist Suzi Dian.