It's Memorial Day weekend, and you know what that means (at least for U.S. residents): spending three days stuck in traffic! While you're there, you might as well enjoy some of the week's best new music, from the new Roots album (above) to Shirley Mansion teaming up with Le Butcherettes to the first Jurassic 5 track since 2006 (!) to a new terrifying banger from everyone's favorite weirdos, Die Antwoord.
As usual, we've added the tracks to our ongoing Spotify playlist of great new music, and created a standalone YouTube playlist for this week. Keep the recommendations coming.
The tracks:
Melaena Cadiz, "Neon Drag"
Le Butcherettesm, "Shame, You're All I've Got" ft. Shirley Manson
Cymbals Eat Guitars, "Jackson"
Banks, "Drowning"
The Roots, "Understand"
Jurassic 5, "The Way We Do It"
Lonely Island feat. Pharrell "Hugs"
Rome Fortune, "One Time For" (prod. Four Tet)
Jungle, "Time"
Die Antwoord, "Pitbull Terrier"
