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Rina Sawayama has shared another single from her debut studio album SAWAYAMA, which comes out Friday via Dirty Hit. Check out the karaoke-inspired video and listen to “Bad Friend” below.

Charlotte-born, D.C.-based rapper Mavi and Brooklyn’s Maassai have shared a new song. The track, “fire alarm (!),” is produced by Greenss. Listen below.

Jamie xx is back with a new solo song—his first under his own name since releasing his debut album In Colour in 2015. It’s called “Idontknow” and it’s been a staple of his live shows since last year. A 12" vinyl release is coming out around May 1 in the United Kingdom and May 15 in the United Stats (via Young Turks). Give it a listen below.

Major Lazer have shared a new remix of the Weeknd’s After Hours single “Blinding Lights.” It follows Chromatics’ remix of the track. Hear the new song below.

Brittany Howard has shared a cover of Funkadelic’s “You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks” as part of the ongoing Spotify Singles series. In addition to the Funkadelic song (from 1971’s Maggot Brain), Howard performed “Stay High” from her debut solo album Jaime. Listen to both tracks below.

Kodie Shane has shared a song with Lil Uzi Vert called “I’m So Gone.” As HotNewHipHop the two rappers have teased the track for a number of years. Listen to “I’m So Gone” below.

Kid Cudi has shared a brand new track called “Leader of the Delinquents.” Cudi teased a clip of the song during an Instagram Live session on April 10. Hear the single below (via Republic).

Bob Nanna, best known as the frontman of Braid and Hey Mercedes, has announced his first solo full-length under his own name. The album is called Celebration States and it’s out July 10 (via New Granada). The record includes last year’s “Do You Want to Buy a Guitar?” and a new track called “Mr. Albatross.” Hear both songs below (via Alternative Press).

Lana Del Rey has shared new details about her forthcoming spoken word album, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, revealing the album’s cover artwork on Instagram earlier today. Erika Lee Sears illustrated the cover for the “audiobook of poems,” which will also feature music by Jack Antonoff. Check out the announcement below. An official release date has not yet been announced.

Singer-songwriter Eleanor Friedberger has released covers of two Destroyer songs. Friedberger shared versions of “The River” and “Hell,” both from 2016’s Poison Season LP. Listen to both demos below via Friedberger’s Bandcamp account.

Grizzly Bear drummer Christopher Bear has announced his first solo record, as BrooklynVegan notes. Bear, who records under the name Fools, will release Fools’ Harp Vol. 1 on May 18 via Music From Memory. Below, hear a new song called “Deefyfe.”

As teased, the Mountain Goats have released a new album via Merge. This one’s called Songs for Pierre Chuvin. According to a press release, it’s the first time since 2002’s All Hail West Texas that John Darnielle has recorded an album entirely on his boombox. Fittingly, a cassette edition of the album is due June 19. Listen to Songs for Pierre Chuvin below.

Kodie Shane has released a new mixtape. Quarantine is a four-track project that the Atlanta rapper made at home over the last two weeks. Check out the mixtape, made in collaboration with Saucy Longwe, below.

Usher, Lil Jon, and Ludacris have released a new song. The latest track from the team behind “Yeah!” is called “SexBeat.” That’s it below.

Joan Shelley has released a new live album, recorded in Louisville, Kentucky in December. The full-band performance includes guitarist Nathan Salsburg, Nathan Bowles, Jake Xerxes Fussell, and Anna Krippenstapel, plus guest appearances by Will Oldham and Julia Purcell. Listen to Live at The Bomhard below.

The Safdie brothers—the directors behind films like Uncut Gems and Good Time—have an online radio station called Elara Radio. Today, Uncut Gems composer Oneohtrix Point Never has shared a new hourlong mix for the station. It’s called Depressive Danny’s Witches Borscht Vol. 1: Demented Ass Music From Outer Space. It features music from The The, Chris Bell, Shadowax, Oscar the Grouch, and more. Listen and find the full tracklist below.

duendita and Brazilian singer MC Bin Laden have hopped on Salt Cathedral’s new track “How Beautiful (she is).” Hear it below.

Charli XCX has shared the first track from her forthcoming album how i’m feeling now, which she’s making as she self-isolates during the COVID-19 pandemic. This one is “forever.” According to a press release, Charli wrote “forever” within the last two days and she co–executive produced the song with A. G. Cook and BJ Burton. Hear Charli XCX’s “Forever” below.

Angel Olsen has shared a new remix of “All Mirrors,” from her album of the same name, produced by Chromatics’ Johnny Jewel. “I’ve been listening to Chromatics for years but I never thought I’d get the chance to meet them or work with Johnny, it’s always interesting to me what other people hear in something, how one slight movement can change a song completely,” she wrote in a statement. Listen to the remix below.

FKA twigs was the latest guest on the Song Exploder podcast. She spoke with host Hrishikesh Hirway about “mirrored heart” from last year’s MAGDALENE. She discussed the song’s emotional genesis during a period of “intense heartbreak” and her apprehension about making a sad album. She also talked about her experience collaborating with producer Rick Nowels and musicians Ethan P. Flynn, Koreless, and Cyan, and more. Listen to the episode below.

user18081971, the SoundCloud account widely believed to belong to Aphex Twin, has been newly active, as first reported by Resident Advisor. In the last week, the account has uploaded six new tracks: “m11st lon,” “prememory100N pt2,” “tha2,” “s8v1 [brooklyn],” “Tha2 [world scam mix],” and “qu 1.” Hear all six entries below.

The long-running British duo Autechre have released seven new installments of their AE_Live series. The series offers up previously released live soundboard recordings from their shows, and the latest batch features seven different shows from 2016 and 2018. They include concerts in Dublin, Melbourne, Oslo, Helsinki, Zagreb, and elsewhere. They’re all available to stream, purchase, and download here.

Henry Rollins has long been a fixture on the radio, and as the coronavirus pandemic has forced everybody into self-quarantine, he’s beginning a new online radio series in conjunction with KCRW called The Cool Quarantine. The first episode is out now and it’s just over four hours long. Listen here, and read his statement about the new show below.

Westerman has shared another new song from his forthcoming debut album Your Hero Is Not Dead. The follow-up to “Blue Comanche” and “Think I’ll Stay” is called “Waiting on Design.” Have a listen below.

Body Meat, the project of Philadelphia musician Christopher Taylor, has shared a new song. “The Well” was written and produced by Taylor and features the saxophone playing of Andrew Lee. Listen to the track below.

Sheryl Crow and Citizen Cope have covered Bill Withers’ “Lonely Town, Lonely Street,” from the late soul legend’s 1972 record Still Bill. “I love Bill Withers. His passing last week was a heavy blow, on top of the challenges we’re all facing just trying to live day to day right now,” Sheryl Crow said in a press release. Hear Crow’s cover and Withers’ original below.

The Strokes have shared a new song called “Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus.” Check it out below. The band’s Rick Rubin-produced album The New Abnormal is out Friday, April 10.

Bad Bunny has surprise released a new song called “En Casita.” A one-off about life in self-isolation, the song features vocals from his girlfriend Gabriela Berlingeri. Listen to the track below.

Octo Octa, the Brooklyn-based house producer Maya Bouldry-Morrison, has released a new hour-long mix on T4T LUV NRG’s SoundCloud page. Listen to the mix in full below.

Rina Sawayama has shared a new song from her forthcoming debut, SAWAYAMA. “Chosen Family,” produced by PC Music’s Danny L Harle, is dedicated “to my queer friends who I now consider family,” Sawayama says in a press release. Hear it below.