Music News for August 21, 2025

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• Today’s Headlines

• Former Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds has died, aged 51

• Lil Nas X roams L.A. street in tighty whities … hospitalized for possible OD

• The Beta Band’s Steve Mason talks upcoming reunion tour on BV podcast: “We were about demolishing Britpop”

• Are Jane’s Addiction members continuing together without Perry Farrell?

• Drake launches Amazon merch store

• Nine Songs – Wyclef Jean

• Martin Garrix: ten years and counting

• JAY-Z reportedly has new music on the way

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor remove music from streaming services

• Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman – Album review and interview

• Slipknot reportedly selling their catalog for $120 million

• Kiss among Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center Honorees

• LL Cool J to host 2025 MTV VMAS

• Sinead O’Connor biopic chronicling singer’s early years in the works

• Rare Daft Punk skateboard surfaces on eBay for $15,000

• Megadeth launches mystery countdown clock

• MGK says new album Lost Americana is his first recorded completely sober

• Floating Points unpacks Sunflower Sound System

• R.I.P. Bobby Whitlock, co-founder of Derek And The Dominos

• Depeche Mode: M concert film to be released in theaters and IMAX

• Bob Dylan is back in the studio

• Grateful Dead superfan dies while dancing at Dead and Company show in San Francisco

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• New Albums and EPs

• The Beatles Anthology reissued with new episode, Anthology 4 album

• Track by Track: Heddlu – Tramor

• The Youth Play confronts global unrest and personal struggle on Someday, Forever

• Earl Sweatshirt announces release date for new album

• FKA Twigs announces new album EUSEXUA Afterglow release : “And my labour shall commence next month”

• The Replacements announce Let It Be Deluxe Reissue with 35 unreleased tracks

• Boris to release 20th anniversary reissues of Pink and dronevil

• Aphex Twin’s sole Polygon Window album to see expanded reissue with three added tracks

• Florence + The Machine announce new album Everybody Scream – Just in time for Halloween

• Bar Italia announce album, share video for new song ‘Fundraiser’: Watch

• The Cribs announce details of eighth album Selling A Vibe

• she’s green emerges from a two-year hiatus with an exploration of lush dream-pop on the Chrysalis EP

• Goose surprise-release new album Chain Yer Dragon: Stream

• Megadeth will release their final album next year

• Radiohead surprise release Hail to the Thief live album

• For Those I Love digs deep into Dublin on Carving the Stone

• New Tracks

• Archie Sagers unveils dreamy krautrock inspired single ‘Fistral’

• Bug Teeth announce debut album Micrographia and share new single ‘Warp and Weft II’

• Bass Drum of Death share new single ‘Never Gonna Drink About You’ ahead of sixth album

• Cusp announce new album What I Want Doesn’t Want Me Back and share lead single ‘Follow Along’

• bloodsports sign to Good English and share new single ‘Rosary’

• Mac DeMarco shares new track ‘Phantom’ from forthcoming album Guitar

• ‘New Best Thing’ captures the sleazy swagger of Home Counties

• ‘Fall Away’ captures the colorful DIY spirit of Good Flying Birds

• Maneater delivers bittersweet realizations on new single ‘Good Things’

• ‘So Much Better’ marks final single before Dean Johnson’s Saddle Creek debut album

• Pickle Darling shares new single ‘Congratulations Champion’ ahead of Bots release

• Moon Machine continue momentum with ‘Who Feels It Knows It’

• Pearly Drops share surreal new single ‘Pillow Face’

• Khalid returns with new single and album announcement

• Cardi B shares new single ‘Imaginary Playerz’: Stream

• Steve Lacy unveils ’Nice Shoes,’ his first new song in three years

• Ghostface Killah drops ‘Metaphysics’

• Chief Keef & Mustard – ‘Shake Dat’

• The Technicolors unleash ‘Alpha Alpha Alpha,’ a high-voltage single dropping just before Heavy Pulp

• Madeline The Person honors her late father in moving single ‘Man On The Moon’

• Inner Wave returns with first new single in four years with ‘Madre’

• Rapt begins Not All Is Dark/All Is Never Lost series with delicate single ‘Ocean Lay Straight’

• Tiberius shares ‘Felt’ from forthcoming album ‘Troubadour’

• Alexei Shishkin channels poet Carl Dennis on vivid new single ‘Ode to Carl Dennis’

• Grant Pavol unveils ‘Save Some Time’ single and video ahead of new EP

• HARLEY GIRL drops pulsating dance track ‘Gimme !’

• Headaches shares dreamy new single ‘Yuzu In The Sun’

• Talking Violet returns with shoegaze-infused single ‘In Your Mind’

• 44 Ardent unveils ‘Curtain Call’ after nearly being lost forever

• David Byrne releases new track ‘The Avant Garde’

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Dijon, Kaytranada, and Cass McCombs

• New and notable album releases

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 8/18/2025: Skullcrusher, David Byrne, Cardi B, Mappe Of, she’s green, Cass McCombs, and more!

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• Festival Updates

• Doechii has pulled out of All Points East, Forwards and Rock en Seine festivals

• Tool, Weezer, Lorna Shore & more added to Good Things Festival 2025

• Judas Priest, Lamb of God, Sepultura, and Nevermore among first confirmed bands for 2026 edition of U.K.’s Bloodstock

• Tomorrowland announces CORE events in Los Angeles, Medellín and Melbourne for 2026

• SAULT and Cleo Sol add more support acts to All Points East 2025 line-up

• Riot Fest announces 2025 aftershows (Sex Pistols, The Damned, Texas is the Reason, Alkaline Trio, more)

• Swedish music festival offering tickets in exchange for kidney donation

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Cheap Trick Announce run of fall 2025 US headlining tour dates

• Guster: Tiny Desk Concert

• J.I.D Announces Massive 2025-2026 God Does Like World Tours

• Dijon announces fall tour in support of new album Baby

• Swedish House Mafia announce show at the world’s largest bull ring in Mexico City

• Folk Bitch Trio announce fall tour

• Neko Case Announces 2026 Tour, Shares New Song: Listen

• Raekwon and Mobb Deep announce co-headlining US tour

• Linkin Park announces first Australian tour since 2013

• Wolf Alice announce two intimate album release shows for The Clearing

• Chance the Rapper announces fall tour

• The Lumineers announce 2026 Australia and New Zealand tour

• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony postpone tour with Three 6 Mafia to 2026

• Snail Mail debut two more new songs at Seattle tour closer

• Brian Eno, James Blake, Jamie xx, and many more headline Together For Palestine concert

• Watch Waxahatchee cover This Is Lorelei at Newport Folk Festival aftershow

• MIKE: Tiny Desk Concert

• Metallica announce intimate NY show, address Sphere residency rumors

• Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist announce North American tour

• The Jesus Lizard cancel fall 2025 tour dates due to “serious health incident”