Music News for January 1, 2025

Best Albums of 2024: We’re excited to unveil our curated list of the 24 best albums of the 2024!

• Best of 2024

• Explore our curated roundup of 2024 year-end music lists from across the industry

• Today’s Headlines

• Diplo tells Andy Cohen & Anderson Cooper he was on LSD during CNN’s New Year’s Eve Special

• 2024 tour totals: Nicki Minaj, Doja Cat, Missy Elliott, and Megan Thee Stallion grossed over $220 million touring this year

• Karol G announces Netflix documentary for 2025: A story born from dreams

• Fatboy Slim No Longer Feels “Passionate” About Making Music

• SZA announces abrupt split from longtime TDE Manager Punch

• Songs that hit hard in 2024

• Chic singer Alfa Anderson dies at 78

• Barack Obama reveals his favorite songs of 2024

• Prince, The Clash, Frankie Valli & more to receive 2025 Lifetime Achievement Awards from Recording Academy: Full list

• On the rise – Maruja

• It looks like Drake is working on new music

• The Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap dead at 73

• Lil Baby says losing $8 million in one day made him quit gambling

• Rush’s Alex Lifeson presented with ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ by National Guitar Museum

• DIIV tell us about their favorite albums of 2024

• Robert Smith is hoarding “Loads” of iPods, doesn’t “stream music on principle”

• Report: Lil Wayne, Chris Brown received millions from COVID relief fund meant for struggling venues

• New Avicii documentary, I’m Tim, trailer released: Watch

• Stereo MC’s on ‘Connected’

• Ruth McArdle (Ruthie/Lady Galore/Cherrie Blue), the unforgettable frontwoman of Lords of Acid during our iconic VooDoo-U era has passed away

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• New Tracks

• Little Simz – ‘Hello, Hi’

• Tyler, The Creator freestyles over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Hey Now,’ reflects on Bastard 15th anniversary

• Your Old Droog – ‘Suspects’

• Ten Fé closes out the year with disco-pop with ‘All Night’

• d4vd explores love’s fragility in ‘Where’d It Go Wrong’

• Pavement to release first new song in 25 years for upcoming movie soundtrack

• chest. channels anxiety and liberation in ‘Aceta’

• Ed Maverick shares ‘Violento’ from upcoming album

• The Weather Station – ‘Body Moves’

• Camille Schmidt’s ‘Stanley’ ignites with raw emotion and indie rock fire

• Bloke Explores Capitalist Conditioning in New Single ‘Money Says’

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

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

• New Albums and EPs

• Jay Weinberg is working on his debut solo album

• Yasiin Bey and The Alchemist Form New Group, Announce Joint Album

• Rediscovering Movieland’s lost soundscapes in Then & Now

• Kodak Black drops new album Gift for the Streets

• Bad Bunny announces Debí Tirar Más Fotos album

• L.A. Guns to release new album Leopard Skin in April 2025

• SZA unveils new album LANA (SOS Deluxe): Stream

• Katy Perry drops seluxe version of latest album, 1432, including previously unreleased song ‘OK’

• Burna Boy announces his eighth studio album, No Sign of Weakness

• Aphex Twin drops surprise compilation, Music From The Merch Desk (2016-2023)

• 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

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• Best Songs of 2024

• 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

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 12/23/2024: SZA, Burna Boy, J. Cole, The Weather Station, SAULT, and more!

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

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• Festival Updates

• Mad Cool reveal first names for 2025 including Weezer, Thirty Seconds To Mars and St. Vincent

• Pitchfork Music Festival CDMX to Return in 2025

• Massive Attack turned down Coachella due to environmental impact

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

• Remi Wolf to headline Treefort Music Fest 2025

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Primus return to the stage for first show since departure of drummer Tim Alexander

• The Soft Boys reunited for Yo La Tengo’s Hanukkah Night 4 show (pics, video, setlist)

• Paramore’s Hayley Williams teases first-ever solo tour in 2025

• Alabama Shakes reunite for first time since 2017

• Billie Eilish teams with Massive Attack to make tour more sustainable

• Green Day side-project The Coverups announce 2025 London show

• Ice Nine Kills announces The Silver Scream-A-Thon spring 2025 U.S. tour

• Watch Soundgarden’s surviving members play a show with vocalist Shaina Shepard