Music News for April 12, 2024

1tbsp shares energetic indie-dance track ‘Starchitect’ ahead of sophomore album release

• Today’s Headlines

• DJ Mister Cee dead at 57

• Drake & Kendrick Lamar are readying ‘nuclear’ diss songs, Joe Burden says:’It’s up’

• Ice Spice to make acting debut in Spike Lee’s new movie High and Low

• French clubs to be recognised as ‘cultural actors’ under new legislation

• “Minor Threat were like The Beatles. I saw Ian MacKaye write Straight Edge on his mother’s piano”: Henry Rollins on Black Flag, Minor Threat, The Stooges, Green Day, Beyoncé and the meaning of punk

• Danny Carey: Tool never play to a click track while recording

• Morgan Wallen arrested on felony charges after allegedly throwing chair from roof of Nashville bar

• J. Cole apologizes for Kendrick Lamar diss song, plans to erase it from streaming

• Girl in red is growing up

• Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath Dies at 88

• MF Doom biography The Chronicles of DOOM gets release date & cover

• Nine Inch Nails producer Keith LeBlanc dies

• New Albums and EPs

• Good Cop Bad Cop find their marbles on brutally honest sophomore opus

• Billie Eilish announces new album Hit Me Hard and Soft: Watch the trailer

• Sublime With Rome announce final album, unveil ‘Love Is Dangerous’: Stream

• Powerman 5000 announces Abandon Ship album, ‘1999’ single

• Pharrell quietly drops new album Black Yacht Rock Vol. 1

• Sydney soundwaves are transformed as Arky Waters releases his latest EP, Bumper

• Witchy rock and ghost pop converge in Jeni Magana’s sophomore album, Teeth

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• New Tracks

• Phish reveal new single, LP ahead of Sphere residency

• Andrew Bird Trio shares two tracks from new jazz standards album

• Indie-pop sensation Chris Lanzon releases new single ‘Angel Litany’ featuring Harmony from Girlpool

• Burning youth ignites ascendant alt-rock incomers The Rolling People on new single ‘Before It’s Gone’

• Fake Dad release first single of 2024 with ‘Crybaby’

• Wine Pride takes listeners on a dreamy journey with ‘12:01 A.M.’

• denn. releases first single of 2024, ‘think.’

• The Red Pears drop enchanting single ‘See What I Mean’ ahead of album release

• Portishead’s Beth Gibbons shares interactive video for new song ‘Reaching Out’: Watch

• Nia Archives – ‘Silence Is Loud’

• Josef Scott shares new single ‘Nine To Five’

• Night Swimming unveils enveloping new single ‘Evergreen’

• Rising singer/songwriter Yaz León shares a hypnotic new single ‘Mouthwash’ ahead of EP Bleach

• Bonny Light Horseman announces double album ‘Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free’ and lead single ‘I Know You Know’

• Claire Rousay – ‘lover’s spit plays in the background’

• Paul van Dyk and trance vocalist Sue McLaren share new single, ‘Love Is Enough’: Listen

• Josienne Clarke releases new single and video ‘Fear of Falling’ from upcoming album Parenthesis, I

• Louisa Stancioff releases delicate new single ‘Alice’ ahead of debut album

• Beams illuminate with hopeful new track ‘Heat Potential’

• Caribou – ‘Honey’

• Bonny Light Horseman announce new double album, share ‘I Know You Know’

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• Festival Updates

• Coachella set times are here: Here’s when each artist is performing

• André 3000, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Elvis Costello headlining 2024 Newport Jazz Festival

• Grateful Dead-centric fest Skull & Roses cancels 2024 edition, not giving refunds

• Mitski will make her festival headline debut at All Points East Festival 2024

• Roskilde Festival completes 2024 line-up with 53 new acts including 21 Savage and PinkPantheress

• Gonerfest announces initial 2024 lineup

• SweetWater 420 Fest cuts half its lineup including headliners Beck and Slightly Stoopid

• Blue Note Jazz Fest 2024: Andra Day, Wynton Marsalis, Yussef Dayes, Corinne Bailey Rae, more

• Rock Fest 2024 will have both mosh & non-mosh zones

• Killswitch Engage, Slaughter to Prevail & more booked for New England Metal & Hardcore Festival

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Pearl Jam announce Dark Matter-verse experience in London

• Crowded House announce 2024 North American tour

• System of a Down and Deftones announce Golden Gate Park show

• Aerosmith announces rescheduled dates for Peace Out farewell tour

• The Daily Music Report Updates

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• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 4/08/2024: Pedro The Lion, Blockhead, J. Cole, Vampire Weekend, Porno for Pyros, Charli XCX, and more!

• The music that influenced Magana’s Teeth

• Track By Track: Paper Wings break down their third album, Listen to the World Spin

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• Notable album releases for 2024