Music News for October 4, 2023

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• Today’s Headlines

• Swizz Beatz & Timbaland to receive Rock The Bells Cultural Influence Award at 2023 BET Hip Hop Awards

• Talking Heads: Chris Franz hints at further potential reunion

• Eminem continues to make history as he becomes 10th best-selling artist of all time

• Corey Taylor picks best Slipknot song for introducing new fans

• J. Cole posts letter Colin Kaepernick sent to NY Jets after Aaron Rodgers injury: ‘I hope there’s a spot out there for my boy Kap’

• Live Nation to drop merch fees for club-sized venues, offers $1,500 artist stipends

• Mick Jagger discusses possibility of posthumous hologram tour by The Rolling Stones

• Travis Kelce jersey sales get insane Taylor Swift bump

• Moog Music cuts manufacturing jobs following inMusic acquisition

• Krayzie Bone reportedly ‘fighting for his life’ in hospital

• Usher performing at 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show

• Chad Smith crushes Thirty Seconds to Mars hit as he hears it for the first time: Watch

• DJ Drama opens up about spending six figures a year on opioid addiction

• Nine songs – CHAI

• Lorde shares painful truths in emotional letter to fans: ‘I’m living with heartbreak again’

• Krist Novoselic on 30 years of In Utero and using AI to restore Nirvana music

• 20 Questions With Fatboy Slim: What he’s learned from David Byrne, a lost night out with Cher & 25 years of You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

• Scream drummer Kent Stax has died

• Sufjan Stevens reveals Guillain-Barre Syndrome diagnosis

• Lana Del Rey explains viral Waffle House photos

• Living Colour blasts Jann Wenner over ‘absurd’ and ‘insulting’ comments about black and female artists

• BTS’ Suga reveals military enlistment date

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Foo Fighters announce 2024 stadium tour w/ Pretenders, The Hives, Alex G, L7, Amyl and the Sniffers, more

• LCD Soundsystem announce 12-date New York residency

• Ministry announces 2024 North American tour with Gary Numan and Frot Line Assembly

• Wilco play surprise open mic night set in Dallas

• Porno for Pyros to reschedule reunion tour dates: ‘We’ve pushed the tour a few months’

• Rock Hall of Fame to livestream induction ceremony for the first time – here’s who’s performing

• Bad Bunny will perform a new song at 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards

• Watch boygenius debut new songs ‘Black Hole’ & ‘Afraid of Heights,’ bring out Hozier in Boston

• The 1975’s Matty Healy announces “indefinite hiatus” from shows after current tour ends

• Arlo Parks announces 2024 North American tour

• Burna Boy announces 2023-2024 I Told Them… Tour

• Elvis Costello & The Imposters announce 2024 tour with Charlie Sexton

• PJ Harvey planning fall 2024 North American tour

• Fever Ray announces UK and European tour for 2024

• Iron & Wine announces documentary and concert film Who Can See Forever

• Meshuggah announces March 2024 European tour with The Halo Effect

• Bob Dylan plays surprise set with The Heartbreakers at Farm Aid

• New Tracks

• Felix Ames shares his new single ‘Don’t Be Alarmed’

• Bristol band, My First Time, release riotous debut with ‘Wind Up Merchant’

• Tourist – ‘Second Nature’

• 44 Ardent shares his latest single ‘evergreen’

• The Lathums return with new single ‘Thoughts Of A Child’

• Mike Sabath shares single and video for ‘LIFE’

• Jade LeMac unveils new single ‘Grapevines’ / Set to release sophomore EP ‘Confessions’

• Little Thief share their latest single ‘On The Line’

• Deadbeat Girl (Val Olson) returns with their dreamy new single ‘Talk Tonight’

• The Streets unveil their brand new single, ‘Each Day Gives’

• Nashville’s Wila Frank releases new single ‘The Falling Hours’

• Mall Girl release new single ‘All I Should Have Said’

• Sophia Alexa releases ‘Stones’

• Ūla reveals new single ‘Scandal’

• Alex Amor releases new single ‘Cherry Blossom Boy’

• Helena Deland – ‘Strawberry Moon’

• Sum 41 release “old-school pop-punk” single, ‘Landmines’

• Lauren Dejey shares new single ‘Permanent’ featuring JUST OSKA

• Black Pumas unveil the brand new single, ‘Mrs. Postman’

• Ty Segall shares new single ‘Eggman,’ adds more tour dates

• DJ Shadow – ‘You Played Me’

• AVIV finds her ‘Running Shoes’ on her latest single

• CLOVES shares her latest single, ‘Care’

• Hera Lind releases a sentimental new single ‘Someday’

• LU KALA releases new single ‘Hotter Now’

• Indie-rock four-piece Chasing Kites unveil energetic new single ‘Late Night’

• blink-182 share 2 new songs, recreate their classic music video scenes in ‘One More Time’

• The Breeders Enlist J. Mascis to Rework ‘Divine Hammer’

• Bleachers – ‘Modern Girl’

• Bo Milli shares her new single ‘I’m In’

• Brooklyn’s Glassio and Los Angeles-based Beauty Queen release ‘A Friend Like You’

• CHAI present the brand new track, ‘GAME’

• Of Mice & Men shares new song ‘Indigo’

• Faye Webster – ‘Lifetime’

• Today Japan, Man shares new single ‘Overdid It’ / Announces debut album, ‘Metropolis’

• Automan release ‘Peace’ – Their second and final teaser from their debut EP ‘Vegetables’

• Leeds band China Steps release new single ‘Tintwhistle’

• Brighton’s Flip Top Head share new single ‘Alfred Street’

• Keni Titus releases her third song of 2023, ‘just keep driving’

• Al Costelloe delivers a bit of sonic therapy with her latest single ‘Shrink’s Couch’

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• New Albums and EPs

• Sleater-Kinney announce new LP & 2024 tour, share ‘Hell’

• Paramore announce This Is Why remix album

• TORRES announces new album and tour, shares ‘Collect’ video

• Ed Sheeran drops Autumn Variations (Fan Living Room Sessions) bonus album

• Ice Cube announces first solo album in five years Man Down

• Rina Sawayama says Hold The Girl was written about being “groomed” by a school teacher

• Melvins’ Buzz Osborne on Houdini at 30: Nonsense lyrics, all-time riffs, firing Cobain and more

• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announce 25th album The Silver Cord

• boygenius announce new EP

• Usher announces ‘Coming Home’ album release date amid Super Bowl Halftime Show news

• Track By Track: Babel break down their new album, Marriage

• MGMT tease new album reportedly titled Loss Of Life

• Zach Bryan drops new EP Boys of Faith featuring Bon Iver, Noah Kahan: Stream

• Lil Wayne announces new project Tha Fix Before Tha VI

• Deftones reveals new album producer, new music coming in 2024

• Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson announces 2024 solo album The Mandrake Project + tour dates

• Johnny Marr announces Spirit Power: The Best of Johnny Marr, shares new song: Listen

• The Polyphonic Spree announces new album, shares new song ‘Galloping Seas’

• The National release surprise new album Laugh Track: Stream

• Sleaford Mods announce More UK Grim, share ‘Big Pharma’

• Scream announce first album in 30 years ft. Dave Grohl, Ian MacKaye & more (stream a track)

• Blink-182 announce new album One More Time…

• Kim Petras Releases Surprise New Album, Problematique

• Track By Track: Munan takes us through his new EP, Tranquillity

• Track By Track: Ed Prosek discusses his new EP, The Foreigner

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• The Daily Music Report Updates

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: The National, CHAI, and Meltt

• 10 Albums to Look Forward to in September 2023

• Notable album releases for 2023

• Festival Updates

• King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard to headline Wide Awake 2024

• New Order, OMD, Bunnymen, X & more playing Darker Waves fest side shows in November

• Blue Ridge Rock Fest releases statement

• AC/DC, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Guns N’ Roses and Tool: Set times for Power Trip Festival revealed

• Tomorrowland Brasil announces full timetable for 2023 festival