Music News for August 15, 2023

Elley Duhé shares ‘Delirium’

• Today’s Headlines

• Venue apologizes for forcing Ghost fans to remove face paint at concert

• The Chainsmokers’ artist-in-residence program will cover a year of rent for an emerging artist in NYC

• Dee Snider discusses aging in rock, bands that reunite after farewell tours

• Questlove announces new book celebrating 50 years of hip hop

• Giorgio Moroder sells producer royalties

• Robbie Robertson, Co-Founder of The Band, Dies at 80

• Mick Fleetwood’s restaurant destroyed in Maui fire

• Mdou Moctar launches Crowdfunder to stay in US amid Nigerian coup

• The birth of trap music and the rise of southern hip-hop

• Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Nicki Minaj & more amond 2023 MTV VMas nominees

• Here’s memorable hip-hop slang from the 1990s to never forget

• Rodriguez, Detroit singer-songwriter behind Sugar Man, dies at 81

• Google and Universal Music Group negotiating deal to license artists’ melodies and voices for AI deepfakes

• Turnstile threw out the first pitch at the Orioles game

• Roland 808 BMX bike goes to auction

• Jamie Reid, artist for the Sex Pistols, dies aged 76

• Tory Lanez sentenced to 10 years in prison for Megan Thee Stallion shooting

• Chuck D talks narrating Can You Dig It podcast on hip-hop’s historic roots: ‘This is the story behind the story’

• Method Man explains how he’s avoided rap beefs for so long

• Behemoth donates money turned away by UNICEF to children’s hospital

• ‘Cha Cha Slide’ creator DJ Casper dead at 58

• Dua Lipa says her next album is out in 2024

• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Lil Wayne performs at Dwyane Wade’s NBA Hall of Fame party

• The Used announce UK headline tour

• Run-DMC bid farewell to the stage with their last live performance

• 8 best moments of Hip Hop 50 Live: Nas, Run-D.M.C., Fat Joe & more

• Depeche Mode tap DIIV, Kelley Lee Owens & Young Fathers to open on fall tour

• Watch Skrillex & Four Tet’s entire b2b Set from HARD Summer last weekend

• See Pantera play second concert as support act for Metallica on M72 tour

• Paramore cancel remaining shows of US tour

• Guns N’ Roses kicks off North American tour in Moncton: See photos from opening night

• Travis Scott announces 2023 tour, his first since Astroworld tragedy

• New Tracks

• DAISY WORLD releases her second single of 2023 ‘ur soggy’

• SLOE Jack drops his second single of 2023 ‘2 WORDS’

• Land of Talk announces new album / Releases first single & video for ‘Your Beautiful Self’

• Pseudo Cool release new single ‘Sharp’s Catching Waves’

• New Guns N’ Roses song ‘Perhaps’ accidentally leaks via bar jukeboxes

• Blanco White releases ‘Silver Beaches’

• Hindley and Dexter Seamus release ‘Piss Right’

• Hojean shares ‘Easily’

• Olivia Rodrigo shares playful new single ‘Bad Idea Right?’

• Sigrid returns with questioning new single ‘The Hype’

• Fred Again.. samples Obongjayar on new song ‘adore u’

• Bo Milli announces debut EP and shares wistful dream-pop single ‘Come After Me’

• SANDS Unveils New Single ‘When It Starts To Rain’ Ahead of Upcoming Album Release

• TOBY releases ‘Aint It’ (ft. Chelsea Warner)

• ZUSO Unveils Hypnotic New Single ‘Miss You’

• Cannibal Corpse unleash new song ‘Summoned for Sacrifice’: Stream

• Das Koolies drop new single ‘Pain Down The Drain’

• Kanwal unveils the world of “Rage Funk” with debut single ‘Tuggin’ Me Back’

• Alan Palomo – ‘Club People’ & ‘La Madrileña’

• Hot Chip enlist Yunè Pinku for new song ‘Fire of Mercy’: Listen

• Keni Titus releases ‘american spirit’

• Swedish House Mafia release ‘Ray Of Solar’, confirm new album release this summer: Listen

• 1tbsp releases ‘Best of Me’

• Hunny Buzz release ‘Deli Man’

• SPELLLING – ‘Hard To Please (Reprise)’

• CHAI – ‘NEO KAWAII, K?’

• Connie Talbot shares new single ‘Growing Pains’

• Cayo Coco releases ‘Gently, Dreamer’

• Peter Gabriel – ‘Olive Tree’

• Festival Updates

• Interpol play Turn On The Bright Lights in full at Outside Lands to mark 21st anniversary

• Lorde debuts new music at Boardmasters Festival

• Lollapalooza 2023 day 3 pics (ODESZA, Pusha T, Sylvan Esso, more)

• Insomniac drops full lineup for Dreamstate SoCal at new Queen Mary waterfront location

• Judas Priest to replace Ozzy Osbourne at Power Trip Festival: Exclusive

• New Albums and EPs

• Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter confirms Homework and Discovery were written in his bedroom

• Sufjan Stevens announces new album Javelin – listen to ‘You Are So Tired’

• Slipknot might finally release Look Outside Your Window in 2024

• Electronic reissuing Get the Message best-of on double-vinyl, expanded 30-track 2CD set

• Public Image Ltd: End of World review – a frustratingly mixed bag (The Guardian)

• DJ Khaled announces new album, drops lead single with Future, Lil Baby, Lil Uzi Vert

• Noname Sundial review – Pitchfork

• Trippie Redd’s A Love Letter to You 5 has arrived: Stream it now

• Turnstile team up with BADBADNOTGOOD for New Heart Designs EP

• Taylor Swift announces new re-recorded album 1989 (Taylor’s Version)

• The Struts announce new album, Pretty Vicious

• RL Grime announces new album PLAY, 2023 tour dates

• Jason Isbell announces 10th anniversary reissue of Southeastern

• RÜFÜS DU SOL share Rose Avenue Compilation Vol. 1

• CROSSES (DEFTONES, FAR) announces new album, streams ‘Invisible Hand’

• Amon Amarth surprise drops new EP with remixed single & a song with a goat on vocals

• Quebec Turns 20

• José González announces deluxe 20th anniversary reissue of Veneer

• Danger Mouse and Jemini announce release of shelved album Born Again, share ‘Brooklyn Basquiat’: Stream

• RAGERS share new single ‘Kill Your Politics’ / Release debut album ‘Death Blow To The Thrones’

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