May 22, 2022

Best New Music Playlist for 5/23/2022: Built To Spill, KH, 44 Ardent, Harry Styles, Flume, and more!

• Today’s Headlines

• Bobby Shmurda calls for nationwide adoption of New York’s Rap On Trial bill

• Five Finger Death Punch’s vocalist got shot in the eye with a laser, now has an eye patch

• Lil’ Kim Honors The Notorious B.I.G. on 50th birthday at Star-studded gala

• Watch a new documentary focused on Nipsey Hussle’s cannabis business

• Billie Eilish, Cardi B, & Will Smith interviewed in new season of David Letterman’s Netflix show, out today

• MF DOOM’s enigmatic life to be told in upcoming biography

• B-Real reveals fellow Cypress Hill MC Sen Dog has been hospitalized

• Your favorite artists are rapping about therapy

• J. Cole joins Canadian Elite Basketball League team Scarborough Shooting Stars

• Tour Updates

• Doja Cat cancels all tour dates to recover from throat surgery

• Pearl Jam cancel US tour after Jeff Ament tests positive for Covid-19

• Toro y Moi announces tour (Brooklyn Mirage w/ Noname & Enumclaw included)

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Kendrick Lamar, The Smile, and Kevin Morby

• Best New Music Playlist for 5/16/2022: Kendrick Lamar, The Smile, Danger Mouse and Black Thought, Bartees Strange, Puppy, and more!

• The 40 Most Anticipated Albums of 2022

• Artists to Watch in 2022

• Notable album releases for 2022

• New Tracks

• Logic drops new DJ Premier-produced song ‘Vinyl Days’

• Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘G.O.A.T’ has arrived: Stream it now

• Four Tet returns with new KH track that samples 3LW ‘Looking At Your Pager’

• Kim Gordon teams with Bikini Kill’s Erica Dawn Lyle for ‘Debt Collector’

• Quavo & Takeoff introduce UNC & Phew duo (Sans Offset) with zany ‘Hotel Lobby’ video

• Headie One drops ’22 Carats’ single feat. Gazo

• 44 Ardent is back with his third single of 2022 — A glorious six-minute lo-fi house track begging to be played

• spill tab shares new song ‘Splinter’

• Diana Ross shares Tame Impala collaboration ‘Turn Up The Sunshine’

• Golden Vessel has returned today with ‘spinning,’ the latest addition to his upcoming album, eee, due in June

• Australian singer/songwriter, Benji Lewis has released his second track off his upcoming EP, Floating

• Festival & Live Music Updates

• Korn, Breaking Benjamin and others forced to cancel performances at Welcome To Rockville due to thunderstorms

• Beach House gave a spectacular performance of ‘Superstar’ on Colbert

• Rina Sawayama brought ‘This Hell’ to The Tonight Show in a flurry of western wear

• Watch: Korn perform ‘Worst Is On Its Way’ in a Methodist church

• Queen, Diana Ross and Elton John announced for the Queen’s Jubilee concert

• Porno For Pyros will play first concert in 24 years at Welcome To Rockville

• New Albums

• Front 242 announces Rewind 4-track Bandcamp exclusive with 2 bonus tracks

• Prodigy’s solo catalog is streaming again, posthumous album The Hegelian Dialectic: The Book of Heroine announced

• Beck, Animal Collective, Jeff Tweedy, Karen O, Kamasi Washington, and more join birdsong-inspired compilation

• Megan Thee Stallion’s new album is “95% done”

• Glassio releases See You Shine, a thrilling, synth-heavy second album that is strong, melodic, and original

• Snoop Dogg announces A Death Row Summer compilation album + drops first single

• Rina Sawayama announces new album Hold the Girl

• OK Computer at 25: How Radiohead foresaw the future of rock music and humanity

• Logic reveals Vinyl Dayz release date & cover art

• Yungblud announces self-titled third album: Here is my story

• Remi Wolf announces Juno Deluxe version, shares new single

• PJ Harvey has a new album coming in 2023

• Rina Sawayama announces second album Hold The Girl

• OSEES announce new album A Foul Form – listen to raging new single ‘Funeral Solution’

• El-P looks back at 20 years of Fantastic Damage

• In the crowded London music scene, Puppy has released Pure Evil, an album that is both original and captivating

• Southern California indie duo, Loud Forest have released its fourth LP, Family Tree