Every week, we bring you #SOUNDCHECK — your destination for the best new music that hit the web over the course of the week. Because you should always be prepared when someone passes you that AUX cord. This week's roundup features 10 of our favorite emerging and established artists.
The two juggernaut artists team up for their first collab together, a sultry reggaeton bop about sweet midnight meetings.
This acoustic and tender confessional is the unassuming standout from Miley Cyrus' excellent new album.
Arlo Parks is your favorite indie artist's favorite indie artist, and her latest song about a fight between an "artsy couple" is proof she should be yours too.
Grungy and glam garage rock with a super sticky hook that'll buzz in your brain long after the song's done.
Phoebe Bridgers' melancholy cover of Merle Haggard's unconventional holiday song somehow still carries enough warmth to melt the coldest of Scrooges.
Plush and effortless R&B from British newcomer Kemi Ade.
This young, Australian song-maker's bedroom-pop goes turbo-speed on her yearning new single.
The latest out of Nigeria's alt music scene is Jujuboy Star who meshes R&B, afrobeats and jazz into one intoxicating elixir.
Bouncy raw-edged pop from Londoner AMA that sounds a bit like if PC Music went lo-fi.
Jez_ebel's new song may be about a toxic relationship but one wouldn't be able to guess based off its whimsical sound, soothing enough to be a Nintendo soundtrack.