Music News for January 3, 2023

What We’re Listening To Playlist for 1/2/2023: The Afghan Whigs, Hardwell and Metallica, Caroline Polachek, Sauce Walka and Babyface Ray, and more!

• Today’s Headlines

• Earth, Wind & Fire drummer Fred White dies at 67

• Modest Mouse Drummer Jeremiah Green Dies at 45

• Gangsta Boo dead at 43

• Former Overkill + Anvil guitarist Sebastian Marino dies at 57

• Foo Fighters: ‘We’re going to be a different band going forward’

• Queen’s Brian May becomes “Sir Brian Harold May” with knighthood honor

• Hear David Byrne’s isolated vocals in Talking Heads’ ‘Road to Nowhere’

• Dancing Astronaut presents the Top 100 Dance Tracks of 2022

• 5 albums i can’t live without: Hardwell

• Every album by The Replacements ranked from worst to best

• Vivienne Westwood, Fashion Designer and Punk Icon, Dies at 81

• Ex-Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee pays tribute to Lemmy on seventh anniversary of his death

• The most streamed Jamaican reggae/dancehall artists on YouTube in 2022

• Randy Blythe names the most complicated part of being in a major band

• Pop Smoke mural vandalized in Brooklyn

• Tiësto, Fatboy Slim, Sub Focus, Martin Garrix & more offer up exclusive NYE 2023 mixes

• Powerman 5000 is ‘in the middle’ of working on new album: ‘The goal is to have it done quickly’

• All the new metal albums coming out in 2023

• Jo Mersa Marley, Son Of Stephen Marley, Dead At 31

• New Tracks

• Babdbadnotgood – ‘Love Proceeding’ (Macroblank Remix)

• Wiz Khalifa drops new track ‘Never Drinking Again’

• Bad Bunny drops new single ‘Gato de Noche’: Stream

• 93FEETOFSMOKE releases a new single, ‘FEEL SOMETHING AT ALL’

• kid apollo release new track ‘btw’

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• Best Albums of 2022

• Best Songs of 2022

• cln tells the story behind every song on his sophomore album Over, All Again

• Notable album releases for 2023

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Hildur Guðnadóttir, Weezer, and MIKE

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 12/26/2022: The Afghan Whigs, MIKE, The Mallrat & Chainsmokers, Day Wave, and more!

• New Albums

• Armin van Buuren releases A State of Trance 2022 mix: Listen

• Michael Stipe set to release first solo album in 2023

• MIKE drops new album Beware of the Monkey

• Festival Updates

• Pantera to headline Japan’s Loud Park festival in March 2023

• Deadmau5, Porter Robinson, & more headline debut Jackpot NYE in Las Vegas [Interview + Giveaway]

• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Daft Punk shares rare live performance video of ‘Rollin’ & Scratchin’’ with no helmets

• Watch Lizzo perform ‘Break Up Twice’ and ‘Someday at Christmas’ on SNL