There’s so much music coming out all the time that it’s hard to keep track. On those days when the influx of new tracks is particularly overwhelming, we sift through the noise to bring you a curated list of the most interesting new releases (the best of which will be added to our Best New Songs playlist). Below, check out our track roundup for Tuesday, March 10, 2026.
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, Surf Gang – ‘Minty’ and ‘Earth’
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and Surf Gang have joined forces for a new double album titled Pompeii // Utility. Surf Gang produced the record, which is led by the double single ‘Minty // Earth’. MIKE leads the sinewy, bass-boosted ‘Minty’, by evilgiane and DC beatmaker/death metal musician Pentagrvm, while Earl’s Earth’, produced by SURF GANG member Harrison, is even hazier. It comes with an accompanying video directed by Ian Lopez and Richard Phillip Smith.
Modest Mouse – ‘Look How Far’
Modest Mouse have returned with their first new music since 2021’s The Golden Casket. “Look how far we’ve come/ Oh my god we’re so fucking dumb,” Isaac Brock sings on the track, whose frenetic attitude is augmented by the appearance of Janet Weiss on drums.
Thundercat – ‘ThunderWave’ [feat. WILLOW]
Thundercat has previewed his upcoming album Distracted with the WILLOW collab ‘ThunderWave’, which is just as slinky but more ethereal than you’d expect. The pair co-wrote the track with Greg Kurstin.
Bleachers – ‘dirty wedding dress’
Between Bleachers’ self-titled album and the upcoming everyone for ten minutes, Jack Antonoff got married. You probably knew that already. The new song ‘dirty wedding dress’, as lively as it is wordy, ultimately calls back to the “If you know, you know” refrain from Lana Del Rey’s ‘Margaret’ (about Antonoff’s wife Margaret Qualley) as it claps back at the “interlopers” trying to ruin the special day: “Now only my people can see me/ Only my people come in/ Everybody outside talkin’ they know/ But no, they don’t know.”
Rostam – ‘Like a Spark’
I’ve purposefully put Rostam and Bleachers side by side, given that Rostam co-produced Clairo’s Immunity before Jack Antonoff went on to work on her second album. (Rostam hasn’t worked with someone like Taylor Swift, though that would be interesting.) In fact, Clairo contributed vocals to Rostam’s new album, American Stories, announced today with the lovely, countrified ‘Like a Spark’.
Kim Gordon – ‘PLAY ME’
Ahead of the release of her new album PLAY ME on Friday, Kim Gordon has unleashed the title track. It teases the album’s “chill vibes,” as she intones, which diverge from the hazy and abrasive vibes of previous entries ‘NOT TODAY’ and ‘DIRTY TECH’.
Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer – ‘Insight’ (Joy Division Cover)
Kim Gordon’s ex-husband and Sonic Youth co-leader Thurston Moore also has a track out today. It’s an eerily pensive cover of Joy Division’s ‘Insight’, recorded with Bonner Kramer for their upcoming album They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children Of Gaza. “Kramer had the idea to cover a Joy Division tune,” Moore said. “It was a left turn from the improvisations we had been tracking, though wholly in keeping with both our sensibilities of light and dark unifying in transcendent songwriting, both of us devotees of ‘the song’ as well as ‘the freedom.'”
Kramer added: “I clearly remember what I felt when I first heard track four of Unknown Pleasures. It was a masterpiece. A stroke of pure artistic genius. ‘Insight’ is a criminally under-appreciated tone poem; a benediction of loss, longing, and regret that still touches every cell in my body. It also features Hook’s finest bass guitar invention, singing to me like the sirens of Titan. I’d waited decades to ‘cover’ this trembling ode to the curse of being human, waiting until I finally had the perfect partner to help me re-imagine it and make it new again. Thurston gave the music the gentle magic and unhurried cries Ian Curtis’ words had always been screaming for, and singing it with him put me right back into that place, that feeling, that time when I first heard the sad pageantry of this tragic man’s exquisite warning: ‘Time won’t stop for you, or for anyone or anything. It owns us. Accept it, or be consumed by it.'”
Thomas Dollbaum – ‘Dozen Roses’
After last year’s Snocaps, we’re getting another album featuring MJ Lenderman on drums. That’s Birds of Paradise, the new LP from singer-songwriter Thomas Dollbaum announced today. Multi-instrumentalist Josh Halper and the Convenience’s Nick Corson also play on it, and Lenderman fires out a great guitar solo on the sharp, winding lead single ‘Dozen Roses’. “‘Dozen Roses’ is the second track on Birds of Paradise, a Part II to the album opener ‘Visitation’,” Dollbaum explained in a statement. “That song is an introduction of sorts to the themes of the record; ‘magical thinking’ is a way to process the world and the memories I have. ‘Dozen Roses’ is more about the passing of time, and acknowledgment of never feeling like there is enough of it. I also really feel like both songs (and the rest of the record) are grounded in the natural world, and sort of the magic that brings.”
Lowertown – ‘Big Thumb’
Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg’s vocal dynamic shines through on ‘Big Thumb’, the sprightly new single from their upcoming Lowertown album Ugly Duckling Union. It arrives with a music video directed by Jack Haven (I Saw The TV Glow). “‘Big Thumb’ was written during Olive’s obsession with collecting newspaper clippings and found pieces of writing. She had always wanted to write a song in the way the 90’s industrial scene had by using newspaper clippings to inspire lyrics. Olive collected many different clippings and writings for us and spread them out on the ground, so that when we would begin to play together, Olive on harmonica and me on 12-string guitar, we could sing the words that inspired us most,” Weinberg recalled. “What stuck was an almost mantra-like repetition of the words ‘Holding out the Big Thumb’ which became the song’s conceptual core. The song became a reflection on the feeling of directionlessness in our generation, and how the paths of life that were carved out for previous generations are now void. We are left to drift along aimlessly or hopefully carve out some brand-new path.”
Miss Grit – ‘Mind Disaster’
Miss Grit has shared a hypnotic new single, ‘Mind Disaster’, from their forthcoming album Under My Umbrella. The New York-based, Korean-American musician described it as “the one that really helped create the palette for the rest of the album for me. It’s my favorite instrumental on the record and so many good friends helped make it happen.” Those include Sae Heum Han (mmph), producer Luciano Rossi (Mui Zyu), drummer Preston Fulks (Momma), and Aron Kobayashi Ritch (Momma).
youbet – ‘Receive’
New York’s youbet have shared ‘Receive’, a ragged, frantic new single from their forthcoming self-titled album. “I wrote this chorus I really connected with years ago and struggled ever since to find the right song to put it in,” lead singer Nick Llobety recalled. “Receive is my third attempt. There are a few disparate themes here: self deprecation, exploitation, family survival, anger.”
runo plum – ‘Butterflies’
In our Artist Spotlight interview around her debut album, patching, runo plum said she has enough material for a second album. Today, the singer-songwriter has announced a new project, though it’s actually an EP. Bloom Again is out May 8, and it’s led by the wistful acoustic track ‘Butterflies’. “You might assume it’s about the giddy feelings of having nervous butterflies when you have a crush, and I suppose it is, but it’s more so about those feelings being crushed, and not knowing what to do with those feelings,” she shared. “I recorded the main guitars and vocals in my home studio in my apartment in Minneapolis, and Philip Brooks added drums, guitar and bass at their home studio in Germany, they have a way of adding depth to songs that feels so magical. It’s a really tender song I wrote during the period when I wrote patching.”
Deer Tick – ‘Mary Singletary’
Providence’s Deer Tick have announced their ninth studio album, Coin-O-Matic, arriving June 5 via ATO. It’s led by the incredibly hooky new song ‘Mary Singletary’, which is accompanied by a Colin Devin Moore-directed video. “Most of the stories on the album are from my parents’ generation and the generation before that, when the idea of a Catholic and a Protestant getting together was very scandalous,” singer/guitarist John McCauley explained. “With that song in particular, I liked the idea of writing about Catholic guilt and pre-marital sex and adding in a little bit of Looney Tunes-style violence — sometimes as a young Catholic boy, I did imagine a vengeful God cutting me down in a cartoonish kind of way.”
sadie – ‘Wash’
New York City artist sadie has announced her debut album, Better Angels, with the breezily escapist new single ‘Wash’. It’s due May 8. “I wrote this album during a sea change in my life — my 10 year relationship was ending, and I was about to turn 30,” she reflected. “I was feeling adrift in what sort of music I wanted to make. I returned to recording acoustic instruments, which I hadn’t done since college. I quit my day job, and began coaching a high-school girls soccer team. Working with kids made me feel acutely aware of the passing of time, and forced a reckoning on what sort of life I wanted to lead. The album captures all these feelings from this time, and, most of all, the grief of losing the most significant relationship in my life.”
DoYeon Kim – ‘The Beats of Distant Thunder’
New York-based, South Korea-born improviser and composer DoYeon Kim has announced her debut album, Wellspring, due May 1 on TAO Forms. Utilizing a traditional Korean silk-string zither called the gayageum, she’s joined on the record by drummer Tyshawn Sorey, double-bassist Henry Fraser, and Mat Maneri on viola. You can hear them bring to life ‘The Beats of Distant Thunder’ on the opening track. “This is the first time I open my hand to the world, a first greeting,” Kim remarked. “I wish people hearing this music [receive] energy and comfort. I want to be there with them.”
