Music News for August 29, 2023

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• Today’s Headlines

• Richard Patrick says Ministry’s The Land of Rape and Honey changed his life forever

• Brandon Flowers reveals that The Killers have scrapped a half-completed album

• 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

• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Ty Segall announces 2024 Tour, shares video for new song ‘Void’: Watch

• Tim Burgess of The Charlatans joins Johnny Marr for duet of Electric’s ‘Getting Away With It’

• Julien Baker links up with Turnstile at Rock En Seine to sing ‘Underwater Boi’

• 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

• Festival Updates

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

• Watch Aphex Twin’s entire Field Day 2023 Set

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

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

• New Tracks

• Hojean reveals his latest single ‘9-5’

• Sophia Alexa breaks free on her latest single ‘Hall Pass’

• Jade LeMac shares ‘Got Me Obsessed’

• 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’

• New Albums and EPs

• Richard Patrick says The Algorithm is the ‘definitive Filter record of the last 20 years’

• 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

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

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