Music News for August 17, 2025

Pearly Drops share surreal new single ‘Pillow Face’

• Today’s Headlines

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor remove music from streaming services

• Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman – Album review and interview

• Slipknot reportedly selling their catalog for $120 million

• Kiss among Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center Honorees

• LL Cool J to host 2025 MTV VMAS

• Sinead O’Connor biopic chronicling singer’s early years in the works

• Rare Daft Punk skateboard surfaces on eBay for $15,000

• Megadeth launches mystery countdown clock

• MGK says new album Lost Americana is his first recorded completely sober

• Floating Points unpacks Sunflower Sound System

• R.I.P. Bobby Whitlock, co-founder of Derek And The Dominos

• Depeche Mode: M concert film to be released in theaters and IMAX

• Bob Dylan is back in the studio

• Grateful Dead superfan dies while dancing at Dead and Company show in San Francisco

• Diddy has reached out to Donald Trump over pardon

• The Strokes staying together “solely for financial reasons” impacted their “creativity”, admits Julian Casablancas

• Cops seize 100 nitrous oxide tanks near Grateful Dead concert

• Diddy denied bail again ahead of sentencing for prostitution charges

• ‘Tiny Desk’ producer promises show is ‘not’ shutting down following Trump’s dismantling of Corporation For Public Broadcasting

• Watch A$AP Rocky in trailer for new Spike Lee film Highest 2 Lowest

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• New Albums and EPs

• Goose surprise-release new album Chain Yer Dragon: Stream

• Megadeth will release their final album next year

• Radiohead surprise release Hail to the Thief live album

• Ashnikko announces new album Smoochies, schedules 2026 UK & Ireland shows

• Taylor Swift announces new album, The Life Of A Showgirl

• Militarie Gun announce new album God Save the Gun

• Album review: JID – God Does Like Ugly

• For Those I Love digs deep into Dublin on Carving the Stone

• Dijon announces new album Baby out next week

• Gunna unveils new album The Last Wun

• Good Charlotte release Motel Du Cap, first new album in seven years: Stream

• Wombo shape-shift and soar high on Danger in Fives

• Blush finds beauty in the brutal on new album Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever

• Colatura embrace vulnerability on new EP If I’m Being Honest

• girls aren’t afraid of blood marks a raw new era for QWAM

• New Tracks

• Khalid returns with new single and album announcement

• Cardi B shares new single ‘Imaginary Playerz’: Stream

• Steve Lacy unveils ’Nice Shoes,’ his first new song in three years

• Ghostface Killah drops ‘Metaphysics’

• Chief Keef & Mustard – ‘Shake Dat’

• The Technicolors unleash ‘Alpha Alpha Alpha,’ a high-voltage single dropping just before Heavy Pulp

• Madeline The Person honors her late father in moving single ‘Man On The Moon’

• Inner Wave returns with first new single in four years with ‘Madre’

• Rapt begins Not All Is Dark/All Is Never Lost series with delicate single ‘Ocean Lay Straight’

• Tiberius shares ‘Felt’ from forthcoming album ‘Troubadour’

• Alexei Shishkin channels poet Carl Dennis on vivid new single ‘Ode to Carl Dennis’

• Grant Pavol unveils ‘Save Some Time’ single and video ahead of new EP

• HARLEY GIRL drops pulsating dance track ‘Gimme !’

• Headaches shares dreamy new single ‘Yuzu In The Sun’

• Talking Violet returns with shoegaze-infused single ‘In Your Mind’

• 44 Ardent unveils ‘Curtain Call’ after nearly being lost forever

• David Byrne releases new track ‘The Avant Garde’

• clipping. – ‘Forever War’

• Neko Case shares new single ‘Winchester Mansion Of Sound’

• ‘Harry Nilsson’ offers an intimate glimpse at mortality in Octoberman’s latest

• Trip Westerns release fiery new single ‘Alive’ and announce October UK tour

• Heaven For Real shares haunting and playful ‘Hold Me Back’ ahead of new album

• Shady Baby channels 90s alt-rock spirit in ‘Under Duress’

• Exclusive Premiere: Mappe Of shares new single + video for ‘Terraforming Moons’

• Skullcrusher’s ‘March’ surrenders to the unknown

• Villagerrr share ‘Ride or Die’ featuring Lydia Slocum ahead of Tear Your Heart Out deluxe reissue

• Dylan Henner returns with dreamlike single from Star Dream FM

• Hannah Frances shares ‘Surviving You’ from forthcoming album Nested in Tangles

• Brooklyn’s Kitba shares ‘Wolf’s Mouth’ single | Hold The Edges LP out 9/19 on Ruination

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Field Medic, Amaarae, and Ethel Cain

• New and notable album releases

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 8/11/2025: Big Thief, Ho99o9, Deftones, Laufey, Amaarae, JID, Disclosure and Anderson.Paak, and more!

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• Festival Updates

• Tool, Weezer, Lorna Shore & more added to Good Things Festival 2025

• Judas Priest, Lamb of God, Sepultura, and Nevermore among first confirmed bands for 2026 edition of U.K.’s Bloodstock

• Tomorrowland announces CORE events in Los Angeles, Medellín and Melbourne for 2026

• SAULT and Cleo Sol add more support acts to All Points East 2025 line-up

• Riot Fest announces 2025 aftershows (Sex Pistols, The Damned, Texas is the Reason, Alkaline Trio, more)

• Swedish music festival offering tickets in exchange for kidney donation

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Folk Bitch Trio announce fall tour

• Neko Case Announces 2026 Tour, Shares New Song: Listen

• Raekwon and Mobb Deep announce co-headlining US tour

• Linkin Park announces first Australian tour since 2013

• Wolf Alice announce two intimate album release shows for The Clearing

• Chance the Rapper announces fall tour

• The Lumineers announce 2026 Australia and New Zealand tour

• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony postpone tour with Three 6 Mafia to 2026

• Snail Mail debut two more new songs at Seattle tour closer

• Brian Eno, James Blake, Jamie xx, and many more headline Together For Palestine concert

• Watch Waxahatchee cover This Is Lorelei at Newport Folk Festival aftershow

• MIKE: Tiny Desk Concert

• Metallica announce intimate NY show, address Sphere residency rumors

• Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist announce North American tour

• The Jesus Lizard cancel fall 2025 tour dates due to “serious health incident”