Music News for August 26, 2023

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• Today’s Headlines

• Original Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden dead at 72

• Polo G arrested for kidnapping, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon

• New grime documentary, 8 Bar, explores the genre’s early years and evolution: Watch

• Nas hits the studio with DaBaby, Ab-Soul & Hit-Boy as ‘creative spurt’ continues

• Georgia State University College of Law s offering a course focused on Rick Ross

• Illuminati Hotties sings new song in Star Wars: Ahsoka’s first episode

• Melvins dedicate tour to drummer Dale Crover as he receives emergency spinal surgery

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• Kim Gordon is selling clothes from her closet

• Pharrell says he is working on new N.E.R.D music

• Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s second child was born on August 3

• DEVO confirm current shows will be their last

• Charli XCX responds to Aphex Twin using her face for live visuals

• 2Pac murder: Police sources claim Keffe D is facing ‘imminent charges’

• Billie Eilish says the creative process is “different” with her next album

• Corpsegrinder donated seven bags of plushies to the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital

• 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

• Suicidal Tendencies announce 40th anniversary shows for self-titled debut

• Noname announces 2023 North American tour

• Ms. Lauryn Hill announces The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 25th anniversary tour with Fugees

• Watch: Dave Grohl, Chad Smith and Stephen Perkins perform rock classics at California Pizza Bar

• Oso Oso, Carly Cosgrove, and Kicksie announce fall tour

• Lana Del Rey announces limited run of fall 2023 U.S. shows

• Bob Dylan announces October 2023 tour dates

• Watch MUNA and Boygenius team up for ‘Salt In The Wound’ and ‘Silk Chiffon’ at huge London Gunnersbury Park show

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

• New Tracks

• BTS’ Jung Kook collabs with Alesso for dance remix of ‘Seven’: Stream it now

• The KLF share unreleased music through the British Library’s free Sound Gallery

• The Killers release new song, ‘Your Side of Town’

• Sea Lemon collaborates with Day Wave

• Rosie H Sullivan shares ‘Chapters’

• The Wildfires Projekt shares new single ‘Going Blind’

• Lilac Haze shares her second single ‘Daisy Girl’

• SPELLES release ‘Holy Hells’

• BLACKPINK releases new song ‘The Girls’ & music video in ‘The Game’

• Mitski – ‘Star’ & ‘Heaven’

• Das Koolies release ‘Out Of This World’

• Rising American producer MarMar releases his latest single ‘You’

• La Force releases new single/video ‘How Do You Love A Man’

• Tiësto drops two incredible remixes, ‘Bittersweet Goodbye’ and ‘Car Keys’ inspired by 90s classics

• Paul van Dyk shares new single, ‘Fragmentation’, featuring Sean & Dee: Listen

• HELMET releases ‘Holiday’ single from upcoming Left album

• Indie-pop riser Alex Amor releases new single ‘Like The First Time’

• Nature TV release ‘Frida’

• twst returns with new single ‘Catch Me (Beautiful Fall)’

• CLOVES unveils emotionally charged single ‘Good Try’

• Milkshed. release debut single ‘Apex Predator’

• Cayo Coco reveals new single ‘Ghosts Talk’

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• School Disco release ‘Through Dimensions,’ their second single from their upcoming record, Denton Rock

• The Chemical Brothers – ‘Skipping Like A Stone’ (Feat. Beck)

• Billy Bragg – ‘Rich Men Earning North Of A Million’

• Lauren Dejey returns with her new single ‘Solar’

• LÉON shares new single ‘Pretty Boy’

• Lil Durk releases hard hitting anthem ‘F*ck U Thought’

• Listen: PEEKABOO, Skrillex, G-Rex and Flowdan unload brand new bass anthem ‘BADDERS’

• Alice Cooper shares audio snippets of all songs from upcoming Road album

• 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’

• Festival Updates

• Ice-T & Public Enemy to headline National celebration of hip hop concert in D.C.

• Tomorrowland has been voted the world’s no. 1 festival

• Two big names look set for secret sets at Reading & Leeds 2023

• SZA, Clipse and more to play Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw 2023

• Good Things 2023 Lineup

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

• New Albums and EPs

• Prince & The New Power Generation’s Diamonds and Pearls gets reissue: Listen to an unvaulted song

• Album: Burna Boy I Told Them…

• Ed Sheeran confirms new album Autumn Variations is coming this fall

• Drake fans dismayed after rapper doesn’t drop For All the Dogs album

• Toro y Moi drops new Sandhills EP and film: Watch

• Danger Mouse & Jemini – Born Again

• Spiritbox announce new EP, The Fear of Fear, share ‘Jaded’

• Diddy announces first new album in 17 years, The Love Album: Off The Grid

• Trippie Redd – A Love Letter to You 5 (The Needle Drop)

• Soccer Mommy announces new EP Karaoke Night, shares Taylor Swift cover: Stream

• Parquet Courts’ A. Savage announces new solo album, shares ‘Elvis in the Army’

• Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark announce new album

• Lil Uzi Vert’s Barter 16 thrown into limbo as over a dozen songs leak

• Drake’s son Adonis drew the cover of his For All the Dogs album and it’s exactly as cute as you think

• Blur, artist, and swimmer explain The Ballad Of Darren artwork

• Margo Price announces new album Strays II, shares new songs: Listen

• Black Pumas announce new album Chronicles of a Diamond, share song: Listen

• Australian Grammy Award Nominated artist Maxwell Byrne (aka Golden Vessel) releases the debut album for his indie-dance/house project 1tbsp

• 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

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

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• The Daily Music Report Updates

• Track By Track: Sacrobosco discusses his new album, IVXVI

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• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 8/21/2023: Turnstile, BADBADNOTGOOD and Blood Orange, Future Islands, The National, SOMOH, Osees, and more!

• Notable album releases for 2023