Alex G Uploads First Songs to Personal YouTube in Six Years

Alex G put two new tracks on his personal YouTube channel yesterday, the first upload there in six years. That gap alone is worth noting. What makes it more interesting is that he’s been signed to RCA for a while now, and RCA usually doesn’t leave much room for this kind of thing. “Good Green Friend” and “In the Yard” just appeared, no announcement, no buildup.

“Good Green Friend” was recorded during the making of last year’s Headlights and then scrapped. At the New York release show he played it anyway and told the crowd it was about getting “super high” after a tolerance break. The studio version has that same unbothered feel, something a major might typically smooth over. It’s good it didn’t get erased.

“In the Yard” is a different story. The upload gives away nothing. No credits, no session info, no connection to any release. It’s just there, an Alex G song in a void. That lack of context reads like a choice. He’s using an old, low-stakes corner of the internet to let these out, and RCA is letting him.

That’s what sticks. Not just the songs, but the route they took. A major label artist behaving like he’s still alone in his room with a hard drive full of music and a simple impulse to share it. Some instincts are harder to shake than others, and sometimes the machine doesn’t even try.