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.
Sky Ferreira has returned with a shimmering, colossal-sounding ‘80s pop banger. All other pop girlies can rest now. (YouTube)
Like all great M.I.A. songs, “The One” — her first release since 2017 — combines powerful, direct lyrics with dynamic pop production.(YouTube)
Every summer song should be produced by Calvin Harris and have Dua Lipa on the chorus. (YouTube)
K-pop septet Got7 get a little risqué with their lyrics on the incredibly suave and smooth bop, “Nanana.” (YouTube)
Chicago band Dehd summon pure sunlight from their intense, spirit-filled rock. “Blue skies! Blue skies! Blue skies!” they chant at the end of “Window.” (YouTube)
Our intrusive thoughts get the (chaotic) anthem they deserve with Rico Nasty’s hectic and heartbeat-raising new single. (YouTube)
Acclaimed country singer Wynonna and Waxahatchee duet on the stirring “Other Side,” a song that summons the best of Americana, country, and folk. (YouTube)
Over whirring, droning, and clanging production, Minneapolis’ Zora makes a disruptive and defiant entrance with “All Around The World,” her trans pop anthem. (Bandcamp)
Dublin band Just Wondering’s latest release is all straightforward lyrics and a never-ending bouncy pop beat — and it’s great. (YouTube)
Sweet digital-sounding pop topped with a huge dollop of yearning from PC Music’s most underrated act, Planet 1999. (YouTube)