Blondie:Spectral Eyes№ NMU 261015 B · filed October 15, 2026NASA, ESA and the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, Helix Nebula, 2004. Public domain.
jade edition
Zara Larsson:Blue Moon№ NMU 261015 A · filed October 15, 2026W.carter, half moon over Brofjorden, Sweden, 2019. CC0.
ink edition
Troye Sivan:Cowboy№ NMU 261014 B · filed October 14, 2026GoldTrader, Stetson cowboy hat, 2010. Public domain.
oxblood edition
The Strokes:Dine N’Dash№ NMU 261014 A · filed October 14, 2026Modern Diner, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress.
oxblood edition
Automatic:Shadowplay№ NMU 261013 C · filed October 13, 2026Getterrobo, shadow test of fusion wayang kulit puppets. CC BY-SA 4.0.
violet edition
Rosalía:Reliquia & Magnolias№ NMU 261013 B · filed October 13, 2026Anna Pavlova en pointe, Bain News Service, c. 1910–15. Library of Congress.
ink edition
Sour Widows:Lullaby№ NMU 261013 A · filed October 13, 2026Romain Guy, Golden Gate fog, 2011. CC0.
violet edition
Fontaines D.C.:Where Is Gone?№ NMU 261012 D · filed October 12, 2026Julia Margaret Cameron, The Parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, 1874. Musée d’Orsay.
violet edition
Party Dozen:Full Powers№ NMU 261012 C · filed October 12, 2026Andy Mitchell, White Bay Power Station, Sydney, 2006. CC BY-SA 2.5.
jade edition
Apparat:Little Feet№ NMU 261012 B · filed October 12, 2026Uk2108, child’s footprint in the sand, 2013. CC BY-SA 4.0.
jade edition
FFO: Chillin:Fresh Start№ NMU 261012 A · filed October 12, 2026Warren LeMay, Main Street, Concord, N.H., 2019. CC0.
ink edition
James McCartney:Justice№ NMU 261011 · filed October 11, 2026London. The Law Courts, photochrom, c. 1890. Library of Congress.
ink edition
Paul McCartney:Chelsea Boots№ NMU 261010 · filed October 10, 2026Boots, 1860s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
oxblood edition
Imperial Teen:A Single Chair№ NMU 261009 B · filed October 9, 2026Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior with Windsor Chair, 1913. Public domain.
jade edition
ABBA:When I Kissed The Teacher№ NMU 261009 A · filed October 9, 2026Frances Benjamin Johnston, zoology class, Eastern High School, Washington, D.C., 1899. Library of Congress.
ink edition
Troye Sivan:FF№ NMU 261008 · filed October 8, 2026Vivi-Tone acoustic-electric guitar, c. 1933. The Met, CC0.
oxblood edition
The Tallest Man On Earth:In The Silver Wire Up The Hill№ NMU 261006 · filed October 6, 2026brewbooks, power lines near Holmes Peak, 2011. CC BY-SA 2.0.
violet edition
BODEGA:Slow Train№ NMU 261005 · filed October 5, 2026Berenice Abbott, the El at Doyers Street, 1935–38. NYPL.
ink edition
Johnny Marr:Beyond the Rain№ NMU 261002 · filed October 2, 2026Anthony Parkes, Market Street, Manchester, 2016. CC BY-SA 2.0.
jade edition
DIIV:Trillions№ NMU 261001 B · filed October 1, 2026Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, $100 trillion note, 2009. Public domain.
jade edition
The Rolling Stones:Mr Charm№ NMU 261001 A · filed October 1, 2026Norman Herfort, snake charmers in Kolkata, 1945. State Library of NSW.
jade edition
Fontaines D.C.:Tongue№ NMU 260930 · filed September 30, 2026Berenice Abbott, Fifth Avenue Bus, Washington Square, Manhattan, 1936. The New York Public Library.
oxblood edition
Placebo:Helen Keller№ NMU 260928 B · filed September 28, 2026Charles Whitman, Helen Adams Keller, 1904. National Portrait Gallery.
ink edition
Erasure:Wings Of Love№ NMU 260928 A · filed September 28, 2026Eadweard Muybridge, Cockatoo flying, 1887.
oxblood edition
M83:Heart Motion Foto№ NMU 260924 · filed September 24, 2026Georges Demenÿ, Photographie de la parole, c. 1892. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
ink edition
Jake Xerxes Fussell:No. 1№ NMU 260917 C · filed September 17, 2026Nyttend, Venable Tobacco Company warehouse, Durham, 2017. Public domain.
ink edition
Troye Sivan:Party№ NMU 260917 B · filed September 17, 2026Amnesia, Ibiza, Cream opening party, 2012. CC BY 2.0.
violet edition
Rosé:new trick№ NMU 260917 A · filed September 17, 2026Houdini in chains, Lasky Corporation poster. Library of Congress.
oxblood edition
Jennie:Heaven№ NMU 260914 C · filed September 14, 2026Pillars of Creation, Hubble, 2014. NASA, ESA.
jade edition
Johnny Marr:It’s Time№ NMU 260914 B · filed September 14, 2026S. Knights, Manchester Town Hall, 2008. Public domain.
oxblood edition
Since 2011 New Music United has filed one song at a time: a blog single is the track, a few lines, and the film. Five thousand and some are in the catalogue above, from 2011 to this morning, and every one of them still plays.
From 2026 each new single is cut as a sleeve: a photograph from the song’s own world, taken from the public collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress; a catalogue number drawn from the date it was filed; and a fold-out PLAY tab that loads the film only when you pull it. The sleeves are numbered № NMU, year–month–day, with A and B when two are filed on one day.
Four tints so far — ink, oxblood, jade and violet — each a ground, an accent and a single colour laid over a photograph. Nothing is colourised by hand; the picture is turned grey and the edition is laid over it, the way a one-colour print is pulled.
New Music United is one of ten music blogs published from Berlin-Charlottenburg: ballet20, chambermusic20, classical20, electronic20, newjazzunited, newmusicunited, opera20, realdj, realvj and soundtrack20. The archive stays as it was filed; only the front and the new singles wear the sleeve.
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