Music News for August 25, 2025

3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Deftones, Laufey, and Wolf Alice

• Today’s Headlines

• Sting being sued by former Police bandmates over lost royalties

• Deftones’ Chino Moreno addresses Stephen Carpenter’s absence from overseas touring, says lost Eros album will stay in the vault

• Young Dolph murder suspect found not guilty on all charges

• Deftones Interview: Unpacking the new album, sharing Ozzy memories + more

• 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

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• New Albums and EPs

• Dean Johnson balances sorrow and wit on I Hope We Can Still Be Friends

• Cheap Trick announces new album All Washed Up

• Earl Sweatshirt returns with Live Laugh Love album

• Laufey shares new album A Matter of Time: Stream

• Serj Tankian announces new album Covers, Collaborations & Collages

• Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe announce another album, share new songs: Listen

• 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”

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

• New Tracks

• Exclusive Premiere: ‘I’m Scared’ highlights Pompey’s intimate songwriting

• Cafuné shows love in moments of friction on ‘In My Pocket’

• Skepta + Fred again.. reunite on new release, ‘Back 2 Back’

• Doja Cat returns with new single ‘Jealous Type’

• Exclusive Premiere: Chris Casey releases new single ‘Bodies’ alongside Buried Out Back EP

• Louie Blue blends retro and modern sounds on ‘In The Dark’

• Oswald Slain unleash playful energy on new single ‘Have You Got What You Came Here For?’

• Fascinations Grand Chorus embrace analog warmth on new single ‘Static Heartbreaks’

• Flipturn Teams Up with Old Mervs on New Version of ‘Burnout Days’ Ahead of UK Tour

• 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’

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• New and notable album releases

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 8/25/2025: Skepta and Fred again.., Wolf Alice, Deftones, Mac DeMarco, Laufey, and more!

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• Festival Updates

• All Points East attendees complain about high levels of dust at Victoria Park festival

• Camp Flog Gnaw 2025 lineup: Doechii, Clipse, Childish Gambino, Clairo, A$AP Rocky, Tyler The Creator, more

• Metallica to headline San Francisco’s Dreamfest benefit concert In October

• 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

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Kneecap cancel US shows on fall tour

• Black Pumas – Full Session | Paste Rewind

• Ty Segall: Tiny Desk Concert

• 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