Music News for December 15, 2024

What We’re Listening To Playlist for 12/16/2024: Guided By Voices, Beach Weather, Ab-Soul, Julien Baker and TORRES, Horsegirl, and more!

• Best of 2024

• Gorilla vs. Bear’s songs of 2024 (Gorilla vs. Bear)

• The 50 best albums of 2024 (Kerrang!)

• The best albums of the year (The Line of Best Fit)

• The 50 Best Albums of 2024 (Pitchfork)

• The best albums of 2024, part 2 (NPR)

• AllMusic’s best of 2024

• Staff List: The 50 best albums of 2024 (Billboard)

• 124 best songs of 2024 (NPR)

• Gorilla Vs. Bear’s albums of 2024

• The Best Albums of 2024, Part 1 (NPR)

• The 50 best songs Of 2024 (Stereogum)

• The 100 best albums of 2024 (Rolling Stone)

• 50 best albums of 2024 (NPR)

• The 100 Best Songs of 2024 (Pitchfork)

• 50 best punk & emo albums: 2015-2019 (Brooklyn Vegan)

• The Year In Music, 2024: Albums of the Year (Spin)

• Today’s Headlines

• Zildjian brand cymbals are everywhere. But how they’re made is a 400-year secret

• Taylor Swift is Billboard’s Top Artist of 2024

• Armin van Buuren releases 113-track A State Of Trance Year Mix 2024: Listen

• Artists on the radar for 2025

• Nine Inch Nails on the current state of the music world: “Music now feels largely relegated to something that happens in the background”

• Billy Corgan says Metallica’s ‘Fuel’ sounds ‘awfully close’ To Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Tales Of A Scorched Earth’

• André 3000 gets interviewed by Nardwuar: Watch

• Yard Act’s James Smith tells us about his Top 10 songs of 2024

• YoungBoy Never Broke Again sentenced to 23 months in federal prison for gun possession

• Spike Lee confirms A$AP Rocky plays a lead role in his next movie

• Kerry King talks Slayer’s future: ‘Mark my word: We’re never gonna make a record again; We’re never gonna tour again’

• Here are the lawsuit details Jay-Z and Diddy are accused of in alleged rape of 13-year-old girl

• How Wunderhorse’s Jacob Slater found his voice and made an indie-rock breakthrough

• Matthew Sweet says he ‘may never play guitar again’ following stroke

• Who is Simon Dawson, Iron Maiden’s new drummer? What you need to know

• Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBain to “take a step back from the grind of the extensive touring lifestyle”

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• New Tracks

• Alice Ivy energizes MSTRKRFT’s ‘Easy Love’ in Last Gang’s 20th anniversary series

• Julien Baker & Torres share debut single ‘Sugar in the Tank’

• Baths return with unbridled honesty in ‘Sea of Men’ / Announces first new album in seven years

• Midnight Pool Party releases new single ‘BOYS LIKE YOU’

• Ed Maverick’s ‘Nadie Va a Pensar en Ti Mejor Que Yo’ brings intimacy to the fore

• daste. dive into vulnerability with new single ‘River’

• Cathedrale delves into temptation with lead single ‘The Setting Sun’

• Drop Nineteens unearth hypnotic single ‘Shannon Waves’ from lost 1991 album

• A.M. Architect’s ‘Avenir’ blends lush electronic soundscapes with thoughtful reflection

• Onat Önol unveils haunting single ‘To the Siren’

• WILDES and St Francis Hotel explore the depths of connection on ‘Are You Gonna Speak?’

• The Lathums release an emotionally charged single ‘Long Shadows’

• Underoath channels defiance and power in ‘Generation No Surrender’

• New Albums and EPs

• Slipknot’s Jim Root says he’s threatened to leak Look Outside Your Window

• Fred again.. – two more days (EP)

• Tycho – Where You Are (EP)

• Röyksopp surprise-release new ambient album: Listen

• Brooklyn-based Filipino-American indie artist CIAO MALZ (Malia DelaCruz) discusses the influences that shaped CIAO MALZ’s debut EP, Safe Then Sorry

• SZA begins countdown to new album: “Clock starts now”

• Robert Smith talks about two more Cure albums soon…

• Roc Marciano & The Alchemist releasing new album next week, share ‘Chopstick’

• Lil Baby announces new album Wham releasing early 2025

• Ciao Malz – Safe Then Sorry (Audio Anti Hero)

• The Cure announce new live album, Songs of a Live World

• Ben Lukas Boysen explores his roots and beyond in Alta Ripa

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• Interview: How Heiko Maile + Julian Demarre Transform Number Stations into Modern Soundscapes

• The music that influenced Stephen Becker’s latest album Middle Child Syndrome

• Track By Track: Devarrow takes us through the tracks that make up his latest album, Heart Shaped Rock

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: total tommy, Alffa, and VIAL

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• Festival Updates

• YUNGBLUD’s Bludfest to return in 2025 with Chase Atlantic, Denzel Curry, blackbear and more

• Remi Wolf to headline Treefort Music Fest 2025

• Movement Fest 2025 initial lineup: Jamie xx, HiTech, Carl Cox, John Summit, more

• Def Leppard, Nickelback, Mötley Crüe, Shinedown to headline inaugural Boardwalk Rock

• J. Cole’s 2025 edition of Dreamville Fest will be his last, tickets on presale today

• Slam Dunk Festival announces new 2025 European events

• QOTSA, Refused, Sisters Of Mercy, Joey Valence & Brae and loads more for 24-hour-a-day fest Electric Castle

• Reading & Leeds confirms Chappell Roan, Travis Scott, Bring Me The Horizon, and Hozier as 2025 headliners

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Watch Kendrick Lamar debut ‘Squabble Up’ live at TDE Christmas

• Beach House announce 2025 tour dates

• Billie Eilish: Tiny Desk Concert

• Bruce Dickinson announces first solo concert of 2025

• Kamasi Washington crushes performance of ‘Lesanu’ on Fallon: Watch

• Julien Baker and Torres saddle up for ‘Sugar in the Tank’ debut on Fallon

• Elvis Costello to play early classics on 2025 tour with The Imposters

• Coheed and Cambria and Mastodon team for 2025 co-headlining tour

• Deftones have announced two more summer headline shows in England

• Guns N’ Roses announces 2025 tour of Europe and Middle East

• System of a Down announces summer 2025 stadium shows with Deftness, Avenged Sevenfold, and Korn

• Viagra Boys announce 2025 tour