{"id":143800,"date":"2025-08-14T01:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/143800\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T01:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:10:11","slug":"david-byrne-neko-case-drain-shame-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/143800\/","title":{"rendered":"David Byrne, Neko Case, Drain, Shame, more"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums<\/a> (of all genres), round up even more new music that we\u2019d call \u201cindie,\u201d<\/a> and talk about what metal is coming out<\/a>. We post music news, track premieres, and more<\/a> all day. We update a playlist<\/a> weekly of some of our current favorite tracks. Here\u2019s a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place.<\/p>\n

DAVID BYRNE \u2013 \u201cTHE AVANT GARDE\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSome people will hear this and say, \u2018David is calling bullshit on his friends\u2019 but it\u2019s more nuanced than that,\u201d says of this song that takes a critical eye to avant garde art. \u201cAnyone who knows me knows that I go to plenty of shows that might be classified as avant-garde or experimental. Edgy and untraditional work is hugely inspiring to me, as it often changes the way I think and influences what I do (without me simply appropriating the ideas, I hope). That said, trying something unproven and radically new is risky. Sometimes, as with anything risky, it doesn\u2019t quite hit the bullseye. There\u2019s no guarantee that it will achieve what it aims to do, but when it does, the emotional and intellectual rewards are worth it. That is the risk one takes while making something new and unconventional. So yes, there are times when it doesn\u2019t mean shit, but often there are times when something wholly original comes into being and it\u2019s all worth it. I love that the Ghost Train folks and Kid Harpoon took what could have been a fairly conventional song I\u2019d written (musically at least), and steered it into something that to me sounds like Led Zeppelin meets Dirty Projectors.\u201d Who Is The Sky?<\/a> is out September 5.<\/p>\n

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NEKO CASE \u2013 \u201cWINCHESTER MANSION OF SOUND\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neko Case has shared the second single from her upcoming album Neon Grey Midnight Green<\/a>. \u201cWinchester Mansion of Sound\u201d owes more than a little to \u201960s girl group pop.<\/p>\n

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BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND \u2013 \u201cWHAT\u2019S GOING ON\u201d AND \u201cSAVE THE CHILDREN\u201d (MARVIN GAYE COVERS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beverly Glenn-Copeland, who has a new album on the way next year, has shared covers of two Marvin Gaye classics. \u201cMarvin Gaye was my teacher,\u201d says Beverly. \u201cThough I didn\u2019t get the chance to meet him in this life, his untimely death broke my heart. I still listen and learn from his wisdom. Marvin\u2019s music is prophetic and his message of unity through love still rings true today. I\u2019m honored to be covering these two deeply meaningful songs that captured the zeitgeist of a nation at a pivotal time in our shared history. Listen to his introspective lyrics. Dance to his soulful grooves. Get yourself alive in the hands of a master and heed his call.\u201d<\/p>\n

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DRAIN \u2013 \u201cWHO\u2019S HAVING FUN?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Drain\u2019s Sammy Ciaramitaro showed off a knack for clean, melodic vocals with the Descendents cover on their last LP<\/a>, and now he brings that to an original song with \u201cWho\u2019s Having Fun?,\u201d the third single from Drain\u2019s upcoming Is Your Friend<\/a>. It\u2019s the catchiest original Drain song yet, and only has a little bit of screaming, plus lots of shreddy guitar solos. It\u2019s definitely different for Drain, but it\u2019s a fun song and it suits them well. We\u2019ve also got an exclusive \u201cpatina rust splash\u201d vinyl variant<\/a> of the new Drain album up for pre-order.<\/p>\n

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SKULLCRUSHER \u2013 \u201cMARCH\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018March\u2019 is like a confession,\u201d Skullcrusher says of the latest single off her new album And Your Song is Like a Circle<\/a>. \u201cIt felt like surrendering myself to the things I\u2019ve lost, the things I don\u2019t understand, the confrontation of life & responsibility. While I reflect on things, familiar situations take different forms. I make a friend cry as I play them my song, I make them cry because I said something hurtful. There is beauty and terror in the unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n

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FLESHWATER \u2013 \u201cLAST ESCAPE\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Shoegazy post-hardcore band Fleshwater have shared the second taste of 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky<\/a>, and this one finds Marisa Shirar really belting it in a way that she rarely has before. It\u2019s maybe the most emo Fleshwater song yet, and it\u2019s a good one.<\/p>\n

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JONNY FRITZ \u2013 \u201cDEBBIE DOWNERS\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonny Fritz (formerly Jonny Corndawg) has announced Debbie Downers<\/a>, a new album he\u2019s releasing four versions of, with part one due out on October 24 via Gar Hole. The first version is a country version, as you can hear on the title track and first single.<\/p>\n

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AGRICULTURE \u2013 \u201cTHE WEIGHT\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Genre-pushing black metal band Agriculture have shared the second single from their anticipated sophomore album The Spiritual Sound<\/a>, and it\u2019s an intense, hard-to-musically-pin-down song that co-vocalist Leah Levinson says is intended to reflect both the harassment that the queer community faces and the love that exists within that community. \u201cI wanted to write about transness but didn\u2019t want to rely on political aphorisms and indulgent images of suffering,\u201d she says. \u201cI wanted to paint a holistic portrait of queer life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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MIYA FOLICK \u2013 \u201cELTON JOHN\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Miya Folick has followed her recent album Erotica Veronica<\/a> with an emotional new single, \u201cElton John.\u201d \u201cAfter my dad died, I spent the following weeks at my parents\u2019 house, getting used to the idea of calling it \u2018mom\u2019s house\u2019 and helping her plan the funeral,\u201d she says. \u201cThe first time I came back up to LA, I drove aimlessly through the city, listening to music and crying. I felt the presence of my dad as a young man, living in Los Angeles just like me, loving music just like me. We were different in many ways, but my dad and I could always connect through music. When I had a show at the Troubadour, my dad was excited because he\u2019d been going there since he was a teenager. He liked talking about how he saw Elton John play there in 1970. What an iconic moment. What a part of music history. That\u2019s where the title and the idea of this song comes from. \u2018Elton John\u2019 is a song about grief and Los Angeles, and how the people we love are so richly present after we lose them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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VIOLENT WAY \u2013 \u201cI\u2019LL ASK YOU\u201d & \u201cTHEY SAID\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Buffalo Oi! band Violent Way (whose members also play alongside Terror\u2019s Scott Vogel in Bad Blood<\/a>) have a new album on the way, and they just dropped two new songs from it. In classic Oi! fashion, they\u2019re as gritty as they are extremely catchy.<\/p>\n

I’ll Ask You \/ They Said by VIOLENT WAY<\/a><\/p>\n

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WICCA PHASE SPRINGS ETERNAL \u2013 \u201cMAGIC MOMENT\u201d & \u201cSETTLER\u2019S BEND\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Everybody\u2019s going country lately, and these two new songs from Wicca Phase\u2019s upcoming album Mossy Oak Shadow<\/a> are the emo-rap pioneer and former Tigers Jaw member\u2019s most overtly country songs yet.<\/p>\n

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SPITE HOUSE \u2013 \u201c10 DAYS\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Montreal melodic hardcore Spite House have shared the second taste of their upcoming sophomore album (and Pure Noise debut) Desertion<\/a>. It\u2019s a cathartic, impassioned song, and vocalist\/guitarist Max Lajoie says, \u201c\u201910 Days\u2019 about the time I spent by my mom\u2019s side in the hospital after we learned she had cancer. She was gone 10 days after her diagnosis. The song captures what I felt for leaving her behind years earlier, for all the things I couldn\u2019t do, for not being able to stop time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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POLI\u00c7A \u2013 \u201cSHE KNOWS ME\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

POLI\u00c7A\u2019s Channy Leaneagh says \u201cShe Knows Me\u201d came \u201cout of the early Pachyderm sessions, but for about a year we paused working on the record\u2014trying to figure out what we were even doing with ourselves\u2014and during that time I started playing it on acoustic guitar. And eventually, it became this song. A long time ago, a music journalist in Minneapolis predicted we\u2019d eventually add guitar to our music. So\u2026 here it is. Probably our last record, and it includes nylon strings, strummed by me.\u201d New album Dreams Go<\/a> is out October 17<\/p>\n

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ASHER WHITE \u2013 \u201cCOBALT ROOM: GOOD WORK \/ SILVER SAAB\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

NYC-based artist Asher White will release new album 8 Tips For Full Catastrophe Living on September 12 and here\u2019s the latest single which may appeal to fans of The Flaming Lips or Neutral Milk Hotel. \u201cIt\u2019s the sequential sum of what I was listening to and reading at the time,\u201d says White. \u201cI was interested in pulling every idea to its extreme. Because it\u2019s just me recording, I can pursue the most whimsical, outrageous aspects of the music. What would be the funniest or most cartoonish place to take this? And how can I make that rewarding still?\u201d<\/p>\n

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KING PRINCESS \u2013 \u201cGIRLS\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

King Princess\u2019 new album Girl Violence<\/a> is out next month, and the latest single is \u201cGirls,\u201d a maximalist waltz with raspy vocals.<\/p>\n

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POINT BREAK 2 \u2013 \u201cHALL OF JUSTICE\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Point Break 2, the latest project from Brooklyn indie\/DIY vet Ted McGrath (These Are Powers, The Flag), will release their self-titled debut EP on September 5. \u201cWe love \u2018Hall Of Justice\u2019 because it\u2019s a literal recording of the moment Point Break 2 went from a high-quality fun fuckaround to crystallizing into an actual band,\u201d says Ted. \u201cIt was written, recorded (almost entirely live), and mixed in the span of one very productive weekend. And it highlights all of the band\u2019s inherent, nascent strengths, while also offering some tantalizing feints at things to come. We\u2019re all very excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

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THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS \u2013 \u201cHEY YOU\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aussie band The Belair Lip Bombs have announced new album, Again, which will be out August 31 vai Third Man. \u201cHaving a synth loop driving a whole song is something that we\u2019ve never done before,\u201d singer Maisie Everett says of \u201cHey You,\u201d to which Daniel Devlin adds, \u201cWe kind of leaned into that and pushed to make the scope of the song bigger than some of the other songs in the album.\u201d<\/p>\n

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SHAME \u2013 \u201cSPARTAK\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI guess this disdain towards cliques comes from how shit I was made to feel by the cool kids growing up,\u201d says Shame\u2019s Charlie Steen of their new single. \u201c I was a chubby teenager who liked the wrong type of music and wore the wrong type of clothes. It\u2019s just another time I\u2019d like to say fuck you to those people, and to anyone who makes someone feel shitty for not fitting in.\u201d New album Cutthroat<\/a> is out September 5.<\/p>\n

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CONSTANT SMILES \u2013 \u201cTIME MEASURED IN MOONFLOWERS\u201d FT CASSANDRA JENKINS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Constant Smiles\u2019 first single from new album Moonflowers<\/a> gets some vocal assist from Cassandra Jenkins.<\/p>\n

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RADIOHEAD \u2013 \u201cTHERE, THERE (LIVE FROM BUENOS AIRES, MARCH 2009)\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Radiohead surprise released a Hail to the Thief<\/a> live album, and shared a video of one of its tracks, a rendition of \u201cThere, There\u201d recorded in Buenos Aires in March of 2009.<\/p>\n

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BLACK EYES \u2013 \u201cPESTILENCE\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

DC post-hardcore\/art punk vets Black Eyes have announced their first album in 21 years, Hostile Design, and lead single \u201cPestilence\u201d is out now. Read more about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hostile Design by Black Eyes<\/a><\/p>\n

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ELIZA MCLAMB \u2013 \u201cEVERY YEAR\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eliza McLamb gave us another preview of her new album Good Story with \u201cEvery Year,\u201d which you can read more about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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CHRISSIE HYNDE \u2013 \u201cALWAYS ON MY MIND\u201d FT. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pretenders\u2019 Chrissie Hynde announced a new duets album as Chrissie Hynde & Pals and shared the first single, a rendition of the classic \u201cAlways On My Mind\u201d featuring Rufus Wainwright. Read more about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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