Music News for April 24, 2023

3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: The Mars Volta, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, and Everything But the Girl

• Today’s Headlines

• Eddie Van Halen’s ‘Hot For Teacher’ guitar sold for megabucks at auction

• KRS-One launches 50th anniversary series at hip hop’s Bronx birthplace

• The Pop Group’s Mark Stewart Dies at 62

• Drake hit with copyright lawsuit over uncleared sample on ‘Calling My Name’

• The Grateful Dead join TikTok on 4/20

• A beginner’s guide to stoner metal in five essential albums

• The K-pop star Moon Bin is found dead at his home at the age of 25

• Gordo announces new Las Vegas residency with Tao Group Hospitality Las Vegas

• Hypebeast’s best rising artists of spring 2023

• A beginner’s guide to hardcore in five essential albums

• E-40 says ‘racial bias’ led to his ejection from Warriors-Kings game

• Tour & Live Music Updates

• boygenius perform ‘Not Strong Enough’ on Kimmel: Watch

• Benny The Butcher kickstarts world tour with surprise J. Cole appearance

• Tour news: 100 gecs, Slowdive, TMBG, Stephen Marley, Black Anvil, Raveonettes, more

• The Mars Volta Announce fall 2023 North American tour, release acoustic LP: Stream

• Aerosmith to announce 40-plus-date U.S. tour on The Howard Stern Show

• Iron Maiden announces fall 2023 tour dates in western Canada

• Watch Iggy Pop cover ‘Walk On The Wild Side’ With Duff McKagan & Chad Smith at LA tour opener

• Pearl Jam announces August/September 2023 U.S. tour

• Boy George and Culture Club announce 2023 North American tour

• The Walkmen perform for the first time in 10 years live on Colbert

• Watch BLACKPINK perform their biggest hits on Carpool Karaoke

• Alicia Keys announces Keys to the Summer tour: See the dates

• Punk legends X announce summer 2023 US tour with Squirrel Nut Zippers and The English Beat

• Watch Jazz Supergroup Dinner Party play a laid-back ‘Insane’ with Ant Clemons on Kimmel

• New Tracks

• Sody releases ‘Star Potential’

• Nas confesses to being a bad father to first-born daughter on new Swizz Beatz collab ‘Runaway’

• Thomas Day drops ‘MASOCHIST’

• Alice Auer reveals new single ‘Baby, Cry’

• Hear the Used’s brutally honest new single ‘Numb’ off Toxic Positivity

• Das Koolies release ‘Best Mind F*ck Yet’ ft. Rhys Ifans / announces debut album

• Sivu shares new single ‘Choral Light’

• South London folk collective The Winches share ‘Kitchen Sink’

• Arlo Parks – ‘Blades’

• Spiritbox unleash new single ‘The Void’: “It’s a type of song that I’ve been wanting to write for a long time”

• Dave Matthews Band unveils nostalgic new single ‘Monsters’

• Daft Punk reveals second single off RAM 10th anniv. edition album, ‘GLBTM (Studio Outtakes)’

• Beabadoobee shares new version of ‘Glue Song’ featuring Clairo

• splint release ‘Awaiting Hills’

• OK Cool release new single/video for ‘soaked in’

• Foo Fighters announce new album But Here We Are, share ‘Rescued’ single

• Staind announce first album in 12 years, unveil single ‘Lowest in Me’: Stream

• Killer Mike joins forces with André 3000 & Future on new song snippet

• Valley Queen release new single ‘Nobody Ever’

• Annie Taylor share ‘Love Is Blind’

• Toronto duo share their final single in advance of their forthcoming new album ‘Velveteen’

• New Albums and EPs

• YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Swizz Beatz, Lloyd Banks and more – new hip-hop projects

• Mac DeMarco shares 199 unreleased songs on One Way G collection

• Rob Moose announces new EP featuring Phoebe Bridgers, Bon Iver, Brittany Howard, and more

• Killer Mike announces first solo album in a decade, shares new song with El-P: Listen

• Skrillex teasing two more albums coming out this year

• Westside Gunn announces Pray For Paris Followup & Then U Pray For Me

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• 10 Albums to Look Forward to in April 2023

• Interview: SOMOH discusses her creative process, how she came to work with Joel Johnston (Far Caspian), and the sonic inspiration behind her debut EP

• The music that influenced 1tbsp’s It’s Very Loud EP

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 4/24/2023: Christine and the Queens, Militarie Gun, Squid, Arlo Parks, Das Koolies, and more!

• Notable album releases for 2023

• Festival Updates

• Skrillex, Four Tet & Fred again.. to close out Coachella Sunday night

• Lana Del Rey to headline BST Hyde Park

• The Black Keys won’t play Glastonbury again after “insulting” offer

• Download Festival adds 12 more bands and announces stage splits

• Missy Elliott joins 2023 Essence Festival of Culture as headliner

• Anthrax drop off Wacken, reportedly cancel European tour due to “logistics”

• Frank Ocean pulls out of Coachella weekend 2 following ‘chaotic’ first set

• Outside Lands 2023 daily lineups announced