Music News for August 19, 2023

LÉON shares new single ‘Pretty Boy’

• Today’s Headlines

• Gary Young, Pavement’s original drummer, has died

• Travis Scott surpasses Drake as rapper with most monthly listeners on Spotify

• Jack Antonoff says Taylor Swift is ‘the first person who recognized me as a producer’

• Aphex Twin launches augmented reality app

• Behind the “meaningless” band name The National

• Jerry Moss, A&M Records co-founder, dies at 88

• Travis Scott releases Circus Maximus film on YouTube – Watch

• Talking Heads will reunite for Stop Making Sense Q&A at Toronto International Film Fest

• Questlove shares ‘incredible’ Bone Thugs-N-Harmony rehearsal video

• 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

• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Watch Weyes Blood join The Strokes to perform ‘Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men’

• Post Malone: Tiny Desk Concert

• Polo G channels Frank Ocean with 24-hour livestream ahead of Hood Poet album

• Watch OSEES perform new album Intercepted Message live on The Best Show

• Soul Glo deliver crushing cover of System of a Down’s ‘Soil’

• YUNGBLUD is going on tour with Bring Me The Horizon and Jesse Jo Stark

• 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

• New Tracks

• BABYMETAL teams up with Tom Morello on new single ‘Metali!!’

• Dolly Parton shares Beatles cover ‘Let It Be,’ featuring Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr

• Eyedress and Mac DeMarco join forces on ‘The Dark Prince’

• Thomas Day drops new single/video ‘Gravity’

• Gretta Ray returns to heartbreak territory with new single ‘Don’t Date The Teenager’

• Icelandic artist Arny Margret shares new single/video ‘waiting’

• The Coral release ‘The Sinner’

• 44 Ardent releases ‘don’t give up on me’

• The National share new songs ‘Space Invader’ and ‘Alphabet City’: Listen

• New Guns N’ Roses single ‘Perhaps’ has been officially released

• Nicky Romero goes underground on ‘Mahoya’ from upcoming Nightvision EP

• Elley Duhé shares ‘Delirium’

• Future Islands share new song ‘Deep in the Night’: Stream

• Felix Hill releases ‘SWIM DEEP’

• 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’

• 1tbsp releases ‘Best of Me’

• Festival Updates

• Good Things 2023 Lineup

• Deftones announce 2023 edition of ‘Dia De Los Deftones’ festival

• Skrillex, Boys Noize & Chris Lake to play Friendship 2024: See the complete lineup

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

• New Albums and EPs

• Ed Sheeran seemingly announces new album, Autumn Variations

• Ministry streams ‘Goddamn White Trash’ feat. Pepper Keenan, announces new album Hopiumforthemasses

• DJ Shadow announces album, shares new song ‘Ozone Scraper’: Listen

• Green Day announces massive Dookie 30th-anniversary deluxe edition

• Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew announces new solo album Aging, shares 2 songs

• Fear Factory is aiming to release their next record in late 2024

• Superchunk announce Misfits & Mistakes: Singles, B – Sides & Strays 2007 – 2023

• Kanye West’s new album described as a mix of College Dropout & The Life of Pablo

• Drake announces Bad Bunny will appear on For All The Dogs

• 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)

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

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