Music News for August 10, 2025

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

• Today’s Headlines

• Bob Dylan is back in the studio

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

• Diddy has reached out to Donald Trump over pardon

• The Strokes staying together “solely for financial reasons” impacted their “creativity”, admits Julian Casablancas

• Cops seize 100 nitrous oxide tanks near Grateful Dead concert

• Diddy denied bail again ahead of sentencing for prostitution charges

• ‘Tiny Desk’ producer promises show is ‘not’ shutting down following Trump’s dismantling of Corporation For Public Broadcasting

• Watch A$AP Rocky in trailer for new Spike Lee film Highest 2 Lowest

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• New Albums and EPs

• Dijon announces new album Baby out next week

• Gunna unveils new album The Last Wun

• Good Charlotte release Motel Du Cap, first new album in seven years: Stream

• Wombo shape-shift and soar high on Danger in Fives

• Blush finds beauty in the brutal on new album Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever

• Colatura embrace vulnerability on new EP If I’m Being Honest

• girls aren’t afraid of blood marks a raw new era for QWAM

• New Tracks

• Krooked Tongue captures the beauty and chaos of teenage love with ‘Dog Days’

• Venbee unveils powerful new single ‘New Body Parts’

• Marco Luka releases high-energy single ‘Talk to Me’ ahead of new EP

• Snuggle unveil ‘Playthings’ ahead of debut album ‘Goodbyehouse’

• Whitehall turns a smoky New York day into ‘Fires in Canada’

• DBL A delivers gritty single ‘Caught Up in Wires’

• Deftones share new single ‘Milk Of The Madonna’ from upcoming Private Music album

• Lucy Dacus surprise releases double a-side ‘Bus Back To Richmond’ / ‘More Than Friends’

• Armin van Buuren and Martin Garrix share debut collaboration, ‘Sleepless Nights’: Listen

• Of Monsters and Men announce new album with ‘Ordinary Creature’

• John-Robert honors his grandmother with soulful new single ‘Other Side’

• Tim Carr unveils dreamlike new single ‘Alone Playing Piano’ ahead of album ‘Pleasure Drives’

• Leeds electro-noise outfit Bathing Suits share ‘I Can Be A Freak’

• Archie Sagers evokes summer memories with ‘Tolcarne’

• ‘Dominoes’ arrives as the first taste of Twin Shadow’s next chapter

• Cafuné and Riovaz confront the collapse of connection in ‘Temporary Lover’

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• New and notable album releases

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Hayley Williams, Wisp, and The Armed

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 8/4/2025: The Beths, Burial, Emma Louise and Flume, Wisp, Yves Tumor and NINA, Hayley Williams, and more!

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• Festival Updates

• 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

• 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”