Music News for June 17, 2025

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• Today’s Headlines

• Green Day hit out at Trump and Musk at Download 2025: “We are slipping into fascism. It’s up to us to fight back!”

• The Beach Boys singer Brian Wilson dead at 82

• Nitzer Ebb Frontman Douglas McCarthy Dead At 58

• Sly Stone, legendary funk musician, dies at 82

• Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video surpasses two billion views on YouTube

• Snoop Dogg honored with Ultimate Icon Award, performs medley of hits with songs ‘Drop It Like Its Hot,’ ‘Nuthin But a G Thang” and more at 2025 BET Awards

• The Questlove interview

• Tony Wilson Archive announces first-ever public exhibition in Manchester

• Aphex Twin and The Orb feature on new Telepathic Fish compilation

• Eminem’s ‘Rap God’ flipped into hilarious weather forecast by L.A. meteorologist

• Billy Joel details two suicide attempts after affair with bandmate’s wife in And So It Goes documentary

• Jay-Z bets millions on NBA Finals outcome

• Watch a new mini-documentary on the rise and revival of hard house

• Heart’s ‘irreplaceable’ instruments stolen before Atlantic City show

• The Game lists the top 100 LA rappers of all time (in response to Complex’s list)

• Thom Yorke issues statement discussing Israel, Gaza & “social media witch-hunts”

• Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer accepts plea deal in vehicular manslaughter case

• Man assaulted at Punk Rock Bowling for wearing a Nazi suspect shirt

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• New Albums and EPs

• Sea Lemon navigates uncertainty and wonder on debut LP Diving For A Prize

• The Wants confront isolation and legacy on uncompromising sophomore album Bastard

• Sabrina Carpenter responds to claims of Man’s Best Friend artwork “reducing women to pets”: “I can not give a fuck about it”

• Every Fugazi album, ranked

• Sabrina Carpenter is already on to the next album

• The Alchemist could’ve been on Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter VI: ‘I was just overthinking it’

• The Rolling Stones are in the studio working on a new album

• Hayden Pedigo announces tour for new album I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away

• Margo Price announces new album, shares ‘Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down’ video: Watch>

• David Byrne announces new album Who Is The Sky?

• Scott Evil delivers raw emotion and shoegaze grit on debut album Big Dipper

• Renforshort confronts girlhood with poise and power on new EP a girl’s experience

• On Japanese Breakfast’s melancholic record, Michelle Zauner might be ‘the happiest’ she’s ever been

• Lil Wayne gets back to business with new album Tha Carter VI

• Turnstile release new album Never Enough: Listen and read the full credits

• New Tracks

• Cass McCombs announces new album, shares video for new song: Watch

• Alison Goldfrapp shares new track, ‘Sound & Light’

• Your Favorite Color’s ‘Less in Love’ is a defiant alt-rock breakup anthem

• Magenta Moon breaks free with hypnotic anthem ‘You Like Me’

• heddlu confronts fractured love on stirring new single ‘Wish You Were Her’

• Buscabulla tease intimate new album with bass-driven single ‘Miraverahí’

• HO99O9 streams ‘Upside Down,’ announces new record Tomorrow We Escape

• Kim Gordon reworks ‘Bye Bye’ into Trump protest song, shares new video: Watch

• Pearly Drops drift into dreamlike disillusionment on ‘Ratgirl’

• Lei Hope delivers a soulful meditation discussing the lost time between siblings on ‘Little Sign’

• Mal Blum unveils bittersweet breakup anthem ‘Must Get Lonely’

• Bruce Springsteen shares previously unreleased track ‘Sunday Love’

• Lil Wayne drops surprise Future & Lil Baby collab

• Suede release new single ‘Trance State’ ahead of tenth studio album Antidepressants

• Primal Fear unveils ‘The Hunter’ single from upcoming Domination album

• Pyncher unearths dark beauty on expansive new single ‘At The Seaside’

• Tora Luna dives into surreal heartache on ‘Venus, Temptress’ featuring ANELIE

• The Swell Season shares ‘Great Weight’ ahead of first album in 16 years

• Japanese Breakfast shares new song from Materialists movie: Listen

• Field Medic confronts emotional duality on ‘MELANCHOLY’

• Bones Owens returns with raucous new single ‘Old Time Low’

• beaming shares final single ‘4U’ ahead of debut EP release

• Iona Zajac embraces liberation with bold single ‘Bang’

• Rebecca Schiffman shares ‘Bubble of Love’ from forthcoming album

• Daphni – ‘Sad Piano House’

• ThxSoMch wrestles with inner demons on the explosive ‘Would You?’

• The Starting Line reignites their pop-punk spark with ‘Sense of Humor’

• Boris Way accelerates into festival season with tech-house heater ‘Uber On Call’

• Johan Lenox and KayCyy join forces on haunting new single ‘Eclipse’

• Emma Harner confronts homesickness with grace on ‘False Alarm’

• Billy Dodge Moody offers summertime empathy with his latest single ‘Nobody’

• Luke Tyler Shelton reflects on life on the road with latest single ‘A Bus Ain’t A Home’

• Listen to Napalm Death & Thurston Moore cover Ramones’ ‘Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue’

• Sabaton releases new single and cinematic video ‘Hordes Of Khan’

• Purity Ring returns with two-part single, ‘many lives’ and ‘pt ii’

• Grandbrothers break new ground with pulsing single ‘We Collide’

• The All-American Rejects drop anthemic new single, ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’

• Snuggle captures summer’s fleeting magic on new single ‘Sun Tan’

• Pickle Darling leans into luminous vulnerability on ‘Massive Everything’

• Mo Lowda & the Humble close a chapter with fiery single ‘Northside Violet’

• Coral Grief embraces the shifting notion of home on ‘Latitude’

• Starling reflects on small-town love with ‘No Frown’

• Ganser grapples with language, power, and instinct on ‘Black Sand’

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• New and notable album releases

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 6/16/2025: Daphni, Nxdia, Small Forward, Japanese Breakfast, Ho99o9, and more!

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• Festival Updates

• Watch Alex G debut a new song at Outbreak Fest

• Bonnaroo 2025 now cancelled

• Riot Fest announces 2025 set times

• Chappell Roan sings the hell out of Heart’s ‘Barracuda’ at Primavera Sound: Watch

• Linkin Park are going to headline Rock in Rio Lisbon festival in June 2026

• Burberry’s festival campaign features a star-studded lineup

• Corona Capital 2025 lineup (Chappell Roan, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Deftones, QOTSA, Weezer, more)

• Watch Tomorrowland 2025’s official festival trailer

• Muse are going to headline Portugal’s NOS Alive festival alongside Nine Inch Nails

• Sabrina Carpenter fills out BST Hyde Park lineup with Clairo, Beabadoobee, Olivia Dean, Sola and more

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Tune in to a mini-concert with Miya Folick

• Watch Muse debut heavy new single ‘Unravelling’ as they kick off European tour in Helsinki

• The Dandy Warhols and Kula Shaker announce joint North American tour

• Inception – Playboi Carti performs ‘Like Weezy’ dressed like Tunechi following Lil Wayne’s set at 2025 BET Awards

• Faye Webster announces orchestral tour dates

• Turnstile announce Never Enough U.S. tour

• Wiz Khalifa: Tiny Desk Concert

• Watch: New Black Flag lineup performs live for first time

• J Balvin, Doja Cat and Tems to Headline Inaugural FIFA Club World Cup Final Halftime Show

• Critics came for his album, but Lil Wayne proved he hasn’t missed a beat with ‘A Milli’ and ‘Welcome to Tha Carter’ performance at 2025 BET Awards

• Rico Nasty announces fall 2025 North American tour

• Clipse announce North American tour

• Bruce Springsteen rocks with Paul McCartney in Liverpool

• Setlist + video – Sleep Token debut several Even In Arcadia songs live during first show of 2025

• Guns N’ Roses announce fall 2025 Latin American tour

• Ozzy and Sabbath confirm global livestream of their farewell show

• Queens of the Stone Age release Alive in the Catacombs concert film and accompanying documentary