Dredging up music from the bottom of the underground to the heights of the Louisiana music world, New Releases in New Orleans keeps a record of new music coming out of the city and in Louisiana. If you are an artist releasing new music, submit to [email protected].
LPs/EPs
Kate Fagan: I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool (Captured Tracks Records)
New Orleans-based, post-punk artist Kate Fagan was a DIY trailblazer in the ’80s as part of the ska band Heavy Manners and has now released an expanded reissue of a reissue including multiple unreleased tracks. For fans of high-energy new wave.
Nuddie Piper: Live from the Black Market (Greedy Science Records)
Nuddie Piper proudly reps his neighborhood of the Magnolia Projects, his departed older brother and the independent hustlers in the New Orleans’ hip-hop scene on this new album.
Racoon City Massacre: …? (Independent)
Nerdy metalcore that shows off what djent still has to offer ten years past its peak popularity while including some softer, straightforward metal and ambient tunes.
Will Roesner: The Great Nothing (Independent)
Weird bedroom pop and outsider indie, Will Roesner follows up last year’s Spirit, Hello with a similarly odd array of ambient synth beats, strumming guitar and off-kilter ballads.
$AGEISKAMI: AFX (Independent)
$AGEISKAMI has been on a hot streak recently growing a sizeable audience with their weird electronic/hip-hop beats. Now, $AGEISKAMI cools it down with a low-key record blending lo-fi hip-hop with R&B.
Sif: Darkstalker (Independent)
Highly technical metal grafting pieces of doom, drone, black metal and post-rock into a dark and sophisticated EP.
Yung Streetz: Pain Before Fame (Paid Music Group)
Hip-hop with gruff vocals like DMX while showcasing a wide range of beats pulling together contemporary style with old-school grit.
Singles – New Releases in New Orleans (2/27/23)
Flagboy Giz: Walking with a Gun
Black masking rapper Flagboy Giz dropped a fairly self-explanatory track on Fat Tuesday 2023 highlighting his newest gray suit which he made with a rifle-turned-feathery flag.
Big Chief Donald Harrison/Floki Sessions feat. George Porter Jr., Eddie Roberts, Robert Walter and Nikki Glaspie: Mardi Gras Day
A surprise Fat Tuesday track featuring an all-star band sounding like a classic The Wild Magnolias and ’70s NOLA funk song with an infectious and obvious hook.
Delores Galore: Not The One
Disco, EDM queen Delores Galore rips apart a would-be lover with an irresistible groove.
Krasno/Moore Project: Book of Queens
Jazzy, blues guitar covers of famous women artists from Grammy award-winning musicians of bands Lettuce and Galactic.
Make Your Maze: I Don’t Know What to Do About It / It’s a Pop Horn
Two experimental pop tracks with one being a straightforward indie pop tune and the other being a heavily distorted, EDM/indie nightmare like a strung-out Cage The Elephant song.
Starman Jr.: Temple
A collection of indie pop singles teasing a new LP coming later next month full of big synths and guitars contrasted by hush vocals.
Tasty: Another Day Alive
A nocturnal, auto-tuned ballad with soaring horns and soulful vocals on one hand celebrating life and on the other wearily trudging through the days.
Brad Walker: S/T Extended: Side by Side
Modern jazz highlighting Brad Walker’s tenor sax on two teaser singles.
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