June 15, 2022

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• Today’s Headlines

• BTS announce official hiatus to focus on solo projects

• 2022 XXL Freshman Class revealed

• Parklife co-founder Sacha Lord gives couple who got engaged at festival free entry for life

• Lizzo removes “harmful word” from ‘GRRRLS’ after criticism, shares new version

• The Avalanches on sending music to the Moon: “We’ve always been really fascinated by that”

• Roddy Ricch arrested for gun possession in New York (UPDATE)

• The Notorious B.I.G. hologram has people unsure how to feel – Watch

• The Game explains why he thinks he was snubbed from Super Bowl Halftime Show with Dr. Dre, Eminem, others

• Post Malone announces birth of his and fiancée’s first child together

• Mick Jagger tests positive for COVID after falling ill prior to Amsterdam concert

• Diddy to receive Lifetime Achievement award at 2022 BET Awards

• Lil Baby documentary Untrapped to stream exclusively on Amazon’s Prime Video

• These are the 10 best Tool deep cuts

• Microsoft is preserving music on glass to be stored in Norway’s doomsday vault

• Julian Casablancas calls The Smile’s Primavera set the “best show I’ve seen in years”

• Jay-Z announces Bitcoin Academy starting in Marcy Projects

• R.I.P. Julee Cruise, Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet singer dead at 65

• Justin Bieber reveals he’s contracted virus that caused facial paralysis

• Rage Against the Machine posts first clip from reunion tour rehearsals

• Big Thief cancel shows in Tel Aviv

• What Lil Wayne is really like in the studio: A Deep Dive

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Will Joseph Cook, Sinead O’Brien, and Tony Shhnow

• Best New Music Playlist for 6/13/2022: Beach Bunny, Dagny, Sinead O’Brien, Will Joseph Cook, Carl Cox, Tony Shhnow, and more!

• The 40 Most Anticipated Albums of 2022

• Artists to Watch in 2022

• Notable album releases for 2022

• Festival & Live Music Updates

• III Points Festival 2022: LCD Soundsystem and Flume Join Rosalía as headliners

• Nicki Minaj, A$AP Rocky, & Future will headline Rolling Loud New York 2022

• Pitchfork Festival 2022 set times announced

• The Roots and Burna Boy to headline AFROPUNK 2022

• Tame Impala to Headline Desert Daze with Lonerism 10th anniversary set

• Kygo Reveals lineup for 2022 Palm Tree Music Festival in the Hamptons

• Harry Styles performs ‘Boyfriends’ for The First Take series

• Anderson .Paak drums for BTS in new Proof live performance

• LCD Soundsystem announce San Francisco and Oakland mini-residencies

• FKA twigs: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

• New Tracks

• Kevin Morby covers Tierra Whack’s ‘Dolly’

• Jockstrap announce debut album with lead single ‘Glasgow’

• Clutch drop snappy new single, announce North American tour with Helmet and Quicksand

• Lil Nas X shares clip of another new song

• Bartees Strange shares new single ‘Wretched’

• The Beths – ‘Silence Is Golden’

• Murs announces impending rap retirement with ‘The Beginning of the End’

• 18-year-old Madrid musician, DORA releases a new single, ‘Te Vas’

• LISTEN: Leo Tebele delivers uplifting new house single, ‘Still Be One’

• Brisbane electronic/alt-R&B producer, cln has released ‘Undone’ (feat. Holly Hebe), his first track off his upcoming album

• Oslo-based artist, Ira Nor releases her debut single, ‘flashback’

• Kid Cudi shares first Entergalactic track ‘Do What I Want’

• Lizzo unveils new song ‘Grrrls’

• Halsey Shares New Track ‘So Good’

• Steve Aoki and Taking Back Sunday link on ‘Just Us Two’—watch

• Lamb of God streams crushing new single ‘Nevermore’

• Norwegian pop superstar Dagny has returned with her latest single, ‘Brightsider’

• Danger Mouse and Black Thought tap Joey Bada$$ for new song ‘Because’: Listen

• Beach Bunny – ‘Entropy’

• Glaswegian singer-songwriter Alex Amor releases a delicate and glowing track, ‘Colour Me.’

• Mal releases a vulnerable, lo-fi track from their upcoming EP, Continuous Short Feature Film.

• Midnight Pool Party return to their classic disco sound with ‘DON’T KILL MY VIBE’

• London four-piece, Sad Boys Club release their new single, ‘Ignorance Is Bliss (Haven’t You Heard)’

• Tour Updates

• Sting announces return of Las Vegas residency ‘Sting: My Songs’

• The Smile to Tour North America

• Post Malone announces 2022 tour

• Slipknot announce new tour dates with Ice Nine Kills and Crown the Empire

• Foals unveil North American tour dates for 2022

• Kurt Vile hits Colbert, announces new tour dates

• Oso Oso announce tour with Anxious & M.A.G.S.

• They Might Be Giants’ John Flansburgh recovering from “serious car accident”; June dates postponed

• Black Country, New Road announce first US tour dates opening for Black Midi

• New Albums

• Self Esteem releases Prima Facie soundtrack

• Dry Cleaning announce new album Stumpwork, share video for new song: Watch

• Erasure announce new album Day-Glo (Based on a True Story)

• The 1975 reveal release date for new album

• Seven Lions celebrates a decade of music with compilation album, documentary series

• Perfume Genius- Ugly Season

• Bartees Strange – Farm To Table

• BTS – Proof

• Carl Cox announces first new album in ten years

• God Loves Ugly turns 20

• SZA releases CTRL 5th anniversary edition with 7 new tracks

• Debbie Harry and Blondie to release career-retrospective box set ‘Against the Odds 1974 – 1982’

• Black Country, New Road announce deluxe edition of Ants From Up There

• Atmosphere celebrates 20th anniversary of God Loves Ugly album with exclusive merch drop

• The 30 best albums of 2022 (So far) (SPIN)

• Cass McCombs announces new album & tour, shares ‘Unproud Warrior’ ft Wynonna Judd

• Torres and Julien Baker reportedly recorded a country album

• Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, E-40, & Too $hort premiere Mount Westmore album in the metaverse

• Logic recruits The Game, RZA, DJ Premier, Royce Da 5’9 + more for Vinyl Days

• Lotic announces new Sparkling Water EP

• Buh Records curates Síntomas de techno (Symptoms of techno): Underground electronic waves from Peru (1985-1991), an ode to the originators of Peruvian electronic music

• Amsterdam-based producer, Three Colored Squares, has created his first full-length LP, a downtempo/house album After Rain