Music News for August 8, 2025

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

• Today’s Headlines

• 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

• Man dies after fall at Wembley Stadium Oasis concert

• Justin Timberlake diagnosed with Lyme disease

• Drummer Josh Freese talks return to Nine Inch Nails after Foo Fighters split: ‘I’m incredibly excited’

• Foo Fighters enlist drummer Ilan Rubin to replace Josh Freese

• Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme was stuck in bed for seven months after emergency surgery

• Original Iron Maiden singer Paul Mario Day dead at 69

• Dr. Dre’s mixing console sells for huge amount at auction

• Ozzy Osbourne’s public funeral procession details revealed

• King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard leave Spotify

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• New Albums and EPs

• 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

• Ho99o9 detail new album, unveil ‘Incline’ featuring Nova Twins, Pink Siifu, and Yung Skrrt: Stream

• Trivium announces Struck Dead EP, shares ‘Bury Me With My Screams’ single

• There’s a new Mobb Deep album on the way

• KennyHoopla announces forthcoming EP, conditions of an orphan//

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

• AFI announces new album Silver Bleeds The Black Sun…, shares lead single ‘Behind The Clock’

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

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

• Alison Wonderland reveals her new studio album is ‘going back to my roots musically’

• Hayley Williams uploads her untitled 17-track solo collection to streamers as a series of singles

• Chance The Rapper announces new album Star Line

• Phil Elverum & Arrington de Dionyso announce new album GIANT OPENING MOUTH ON THE GROUND out next week

• The Voidz surprise release new EP MęĞż øF rÅm: Stream

• New Tracks

• Deftones share new single ‘Milk Of The Madonna’ from upcoming Private Music album

• Lucy Dacus surprise releases double a-side ‘Bus Back To Richmond’ / ‘More Than Friends’

• Armin van Buuren and Martin Garrix share debut collaboration, ‘Sleepless Nights’: Listen

• Of Monsters and Men announce new album with ‘Ordinary Creature’

• John-Robert honors his grandmother with soulful new single ‘Other Side’

• Tim Carr unveils dreamlike new single ‘Alone Playing Piano’ ahead of album ‘Pleasure Drives’

• Leeds electro-noise outfit Bathing Suits share ‘I Can Be A Freak’

• Archie Sagers evokes summer memories with ‘Tolcarne’

• ‘Dominoes’ arrives as the first taste of Twin Shadow’s next chapter

• Disclosure and Anderson .Paak share video for new song ‘No Cap’: Watch

• Cass McCombs – ‘I Never Dream About Trains’

• Wolf Alice take the reins on storming new single ‘White Horses’

• Courting share new song ‘the twins (1969)’

• JayWood offers honest self-reflection on new single ‘Pistachios’ ahead of ‘Leo Negro’

• Grumpy reveals new single ‘Bird Parts’ featuring Harmony

• Arkayla blaze forward with ferocious new single ‘Doctor’

• Field Medic shares joyful single ‘Simply Obsessed’ ahead of album release

• Big Thief unveil new songs ‘Los Angeles’ and ‘Grandmother’: Stream

• The Lemonheads reveal new song ‘The Key of Victory’: Stream

• Dear Boy returns with powerful new single ‘After All’ featuring Rocket

• Wombo releases ‘S.T. Tilted’ ahead of ‘Danger in Fives’

• Prewn shares haunting new single ‘System’ from upcoming album

• Exclusive Premiere: Pompey releases ‘Really Really Really Big Sweater’ single and video

• Cafuné and Riovaz confront the collapse of connection in ‘Temporary Lover’

• Hardwell, Maddix, and Villain deliver peak-time power on ‘Rave Till My Grave’

• Colony House offers a stirring reflection on modern life with ‘OK OK OK OK’

• Eighty Ninety chase illusions and heartache on ‘Hollywood Dream’

• Frozemode turn up the heat with high-voltage single ‘HOLLOWMAN TING’

• todd modern captures the quiet ache of digital isolation on ‘TV’

• ThxSoMch leans into chaos on gripping fan favorite ‘Unhinged’

• Flume & Emma Louise – ‘Shine, Glow, Glisten’

• Burial – ‘Comafields’ & ‘Imaginary Festival’

• Yeat and FKA twigs share new song ‘Fly Nitë’: Listen

• The Streets salute Birmingham on ‘Brave St Andrew’

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• New and notable album releases

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Hayley Williams, Wisp, and The Armed

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 8/4/2025: The Beths, Burial, Emma Louise and Flume, Wisp, Yves Tumor and NINA, Hayley Williams, and more!

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• Festival Updates

• 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

• Green Man unveils full lineup and day splits for 2025 edition

• Lollalooza 2025 livestream schedule (Tyler The Creator, Olivia Rodrigo, Korn, A$AP Rocky, Doechii, more)

• Festival Report: Latitude Festival 2025

• Some of Atlanta’s best are hitting the stage for ONE MusicFest

• Punk in the Park responds after Dropkick Murphys issue statement about owner’s Trump donation

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• 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”

• The Strokes announce US warm up shows ahead of Austin City Limits live return

• Doechii announces fall 2025 North American tour

• Doves announce winter 2025 UK tour dates and new ‘Best Of’ compilation So, Here We Are

• Dead & Company celebrate 60 years of the Grateful Dead at Golden Gate Park: Every song from night 1

• PinkPantheress stuns on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

• mgk, T-Pain & Zedd to headline stage outside Sphere over Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix 2025 weekend

• Billy Bragg announces Days Like These Palestine benefit gig with Jamie Webster, Antony Szmierek, Reverend & The Makers, Big Special and more

• Thundercat announces fall tour dates around III Points Fest