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 world’s hottest rock band is back and dissecting the disease that is celebrity over a clean, California-feeling rock melody. (YouTube)
With lyrics like, “I just kept spinning and I danced myself to death,” “Chreomania” is Florence + The Machine’s witchiest song to date. (YouTube)
Mark Ronson + Lucky Daye + disco = 2022’s roller rink anthem. (YouTube)
Left-pop artist and DJ Shygirl released “firefly,” a song that embodies the ethereal and magical nature of the song’s titular insect. (YouTube)
“Yes I’m cute, I’m not rude, I be breaking all the rules,” goes South African pioneer Moonchild Sanelly’s eccentric new bop — and the words we’ll be living by all summer long. (YouTube)
No one makes more hazy, romantic music than indie band Wet, and their latest, “Tell Me Why,” is a break-up song disguised as a languid dream. (YouTube)
Co-written and co-produced by Charlie Puth, Tate McRae’s catchy tune hits the perfect mix of teenage relationship spite and angst. (YouTube)
This beautiful and darkly ominous alt-pop song by YouTuber and singer Korantemaa lingers on the awkward, tenuous space between two people drifting apart. (YouTube)
Singer-songwriter (and Bruce Willis’ daughter) Scout Larue Willis’s new song is her ode to sacred, feminine rage — but it’s her sultry, powerful voice that grabs all of our attention. (YouTube)
Hyperpop has never sounded so graceful and pretty in the hands of newcomer singer and musician Sadie. (YouTube)