Music News for December 15, 2022

Best Songs of 2022

• Today’s Headlines

• The Exploited vocalist Wattie Buchan collapses after heart attack on stage

• Exit Interview: IDLES’ Mark Bowen on evolving Crawler material, Grammy nods, and the allure of spicy candy

• What is the greatest thrash-metal band? Rockers react

• Your EDM’s top 40 artists to watch in 2023

• Bad Brains honored with new NYC mural by Shepard Fairey

• Ticketmaster Mexico issues apology after ‘unprecedented’ number of fake tickets at Bad Bunny show

• Steve Aoki joins crew for first all-civilian mission to the Moon

• Neil Young says he’s working on multiple albums: “I Got a Lot of Stuff to Clean Up”

• Snoop Dogg says he used a typewriter to write his early raps: “I Used To Type Like 65 Words a Minute”

• Here’s Lars Ulrich’s isolated drum tracks from Metallica’s ‘Lux Æterna’

• Phoebe Bridgers plays Sally at Danny Elfman’s Nightmare Before Christmas concert: Watch

• Too $hort gets his own street in Oakland

• Tina Turner’s Son Ronnie pronounced dead At 62

• Elton John is leaving Twitter because of policy change over misinformation

• Tool announces 10,000 Days-inspired collectible statue

• Peter Frampton sells catalog to BMG

• Stereogum’s 50 Favorite Songs Of 2022

• The 50 best songs of 2022 (Far Out Magazine)

• DJ Mag’s top tracks of 2022

• The 100 best songs of 2022: Staff list (Billboard)

• Top 50 songs of 2022 (CoS)

• The 50 best songs of 2022 (Paste Magazine)

• Gorilla vs. Bear’s songs of 2022

• DJ Mag’s top albums of 2022

• Best albums of 2022 (NPR)

• The 30 best albums of 2022 (A.V. Club)

• The 50 best albums of 2022 (Far Out Magazine)

• The 50 best albums of 2022 (NME)

• The 20 best hip-hop albums of 2022

• Best Rock + Metal debut albums of 2022

• Top 50 Albums of 2022 (CoS)

• Pitchfork’s 50 best albums of 2022

• The Best Albums of 2022 (Complex)

• The 100 best albums of 2022 (Rolling Stone)

• Gorilla vs. Bear’s albums of 2022

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• Notable album releases for 2023

• 10 Albums to Look Forward to in December 2022

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 12/12/2022: Lana Del Rey, SZA, cln, The Veils, Aesop Rock and Lupe Fiasco, and more!

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: SZA, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, and Emotional Oranges

• New Tracks

• Dutch Uncles release new single ‘Poppin” / New album True Entertainment out 2023

• The Lathums cause a stir with their latest single ‘Turmoil’ / Announce 2023 ‘From Nothing To A Little Bit More Pub’ Tour

• A$AP Rocky announces ‘album’s done,’ debuts new song ‘Same Problems’ during Amazon Music Live concert: Watch

• Kayzo teams up with Atreyu again after almost three years for new single, ‘Depression Season’

• Alison Wonderland launches label FMU Records with Jon Casey and Dabow single: Listen

• Gorillaz share ‘Skinny Ape,’ announce AR events in NYC and London

• The Veils release second single from their upcoming album

• Aesop Rock – Pumpkin Seeds’ (Feat. Lupe Fiasco)

• Dan Auerbach’s The Arcs have released new cut ‘Eyez’ as the third preview of their first album in eight years Electrophonic Chronic

• Paramore dive into the horror of doomscrolling with new single ‘The News’

• Dull Reality releases ‘Pragmatica’

• Previously unreleased Sparklehorse song ‘It Will Never Stop’ made available for the first time

• Marcus McCoan releases new single ‘Try Me’

• The Know release ‘Used To Be’

• daste. release new single ‘butterfly (so free)’

• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Stream The Smile’s Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022 live album

• Osheaga announces 2023 headliners

• FKA Twigs, Caroline Polachek, Amyl & The Sniffers, and Shygirl are playing Flow Festival 2023

• Westside Boogie: Tiny Desk Concert

• SZA announces dates for first arena tour

• Ozzy “just can’t walk much now” and that might impact his 2023 tour

• Beabadoobee, Rina Sawayama, Metronomy and more to perform in BRITs Week 2023 gig series

• Lamb of God and Kreator announce Municipal Waste as support for 2023 European tour

• Janet Jackson announces 2023 Together Again tour with Ludacris

• Caroline Polachek announces 2023 tour, shares ‘Welcome to My Island’ video: Watch

• Yeah Yeah Yeahs cancel SNL appearance and festival due to Nick Zinner’s ongoing illness

• Brandi Carlile performs ‘The Story’ and ‘You And Me On The Rock’ on SNL

• Patti LaBelle Evacuated from Christmas Concert After Apparent Bomb Threat

• The Killers’ Brandon Flowers joined Sharon Van Etten on ‘Like I Used To’ in Melbourne (watch)

• Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service announce joint 2023 tour

• New Order share classic Haçienda performance of ‘Sunrise’

• New Albums

• Young Dolph’s team to posthumously release his completed LP Paper Route Frank

• New Order to release definitive edition of 1985 album Low-Life

• Little Simz reveals new album NO THANK YOU: Stream

• The Smile announce live album recorded at Montreux Jazz Festival

• cln closes out 2022 with a new album Over, All Again

• Arca shares new songs on Kick Compilation: Listen

• Lana Del Rey announces new album Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, shares title track

• The Libertines tease new album, saying it has “different energy”

• Little Simz announces new album NO THANK YOU

• SZA reveals ‘S.O.S’ tracklist featuring Phoebe Bridgers, Travis Scott more

• Caroline Polachek announces new album, shares Welcome to My Island

• Korn announces live album Requiem Mass

• Lana Del Rey teases new album announcement

• Brooklyn’s Haruka Salt, Tony G, and Bohan Phoenix release first joint single ‘Papajam’

• 1tbsp releases new EP ‘Joan’

• PRADO releases ‘Machines’

• Festival Updates

• Tool, Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold + Pantera to headline Welcome to Rockville 2023

• Tomorrowland announces full line-up and set times for winter festival

• The Prodigy, Skrillex and more for EXIT Festival 2023

• Billie Eilish, The Killers, Foals, Imagine Dragons among 2023 Reading & Leeds Festival headliners

• Kendrick Lamar and Lil Nas X to play Open’er Festival 2023

• Hangout Festival 2023 Lineup revealed – Red Hot Chili Peppers, Paramore + more

• Ultra Music Festival Phase 2 adds Marshmello, Alesso, Tiësto, Charlotte de Witte, & more

• Arctic Monkeys announced as headliners for NOS Alive 2023

• Slipoknot announces first-ever Knotfest Italy

• Mad Cool Festival 2023 lineup boasts Chili Peppers, Liam Gallagher, Lizzo, and Lil Nas X