New Music Friday Release Picks (7/14/23 & 7/21/23)

Our favorite New Music Friday releases from 7/14/23 and 7/21/23. Playlist is available at the bottom of the post.

Alternative

Artist: Paris Texas

Album: MID AIR

Listen to First: "Earth-2"

Americana

Artist: Lori McKenna*

Album: 1988

Listen to First: "Killing Me (feat. Hillary Lindsey)

Artist: Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

Album: City of Gold

Listen to First: "El Dorado"

Country

Artist: Erin Viancourt

Album: Won’t Die This Way

Listen to First: "Should've Known Better"

Electronic

Artist: Michaël Brun

Album: Fami Summer EP

Listen to First: "Jessica (with SAINt JHN, Charly Black & J Perry)"

Artist: MÒZÂMBÎQÚE

Album: Peril 1998 EP

Listen to First: "NaturHaus"

Folk

Artist: Allegra Kreiger

Album: I Keep My Feet on The Fragile Plane

Listen to First: "Lingering"

Hip-Hop

Artist: Haviah Mighty*

Album: Crying Crystals

Listen to First: "Room Service"

Indie

Artist: Alaska Reid

Album: Disenchanter

Listen to First: "Airship"

Artist: Blondes

Album: In Separation EP

Listen to First: "Love in the Afternoon"

Artist: Claud

Album: Supermodels

Listen to First: "A Good Thing"

Artist: Cut Worms

Album: Cut Worms

Listen to First: "Ballad of the Texas King"

Artist: Far Caspian

Album: The Last Remaining Light

Listen to First: "Arbitrary Task"

Artist: Kitba

Album: Kitba

Listen to First: "Waiting"

Artist: Lauren Auder*

Album: the infinite spine

Listen to First: "hawthorne81"

Jazz

Artist: Ilhan Ersahin, Dave Harrington, and Kenny Wollesen

Album: Your Head You Know EP

Listen to First: "When One Passes By"

Pop

Artist: a kid named rufus*

Album: whatever works

Listen to First: "how sweet does this sound?"

R&B

Artist: IDMAN

Album: Risk EP

Listen to First: "Hate"

Rock

Artist: Johnny’s Uncalled Four

Album: The Lost Album

Listen to First: "Daydream"

New Music Friday Playlist

*An asterisk denotes that this release was one of our featured top 4 or 8 of the week.

This list is created by listening to all the music Friday releases listed on Consequence with under 1 million monthly listeners. If you have an upcoming release that you’d like to be considered for a future list, please fill out the "New Artist Submission" form on our site with the above information as well as a link to listen.

Please note: all submissions will be added to our “Artist Submissions” playlist but may or may not be included on our Friday Release Picks.