Music News for July 28, 2023

tmdistant releases new single ‘west end wedding’

• Today’s Headlines

• Sinéad O’Connor Dies at 56

• Arctic Monkeys, J Hus, RAYE and more nominated for 2023 Mercury Prize

• What’s it really like taking your kids to a festival?

• Rock’s 20 greatest one album wonders

• Ice Cube blown away by Harry Mack TMNT freestyle: ‘That was the truth’

• Tony Bennett, Legendary Interpreter of Great American Songbook, Dies at 96

• Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge: “I think our album coming out is probably our best album we’ve ever made”

• Travis Scott announces Circus Maximus film & teases Utopia album with multiple covers

• Rick Nielsen says Cheap Trick doesn’t use backing tracks during live shows

• Lol Tolhurst, Budgie and Jacknife Lee talk new project ‘Los Angeles’

• Randy Blythe doesn’t get stage fright: “This is where the rubber meets the road”

• 10 utterly nostalgic goth songs, picked by Rezz

• The FADER Interview: Paris Texas don’t like the movie Paris, Texas

• Kamasi Washington, Bonobo, Floating Points scoring new series by Cowboy Bebop director Shinichirō Watanabe

• G Herbo pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and making false statements, to serve five years in prison

• American punk band Anti-Flag confirm break-up

• Sepultura’s Derrick Green blasts ‘greedy’ venues for taking ‘absurd percentages’ of bands’ merchandise sales

• Cowboy Junkies – Michael Timmins on their new album “such ferocious beauty”

• Greta Van Fleet talk new album Starcatcher & what they’ve learned from Metallica

• Greta Van Fleet talk new album Starcatcher & what they’ve learned from Metallica

• The Cure left millions of dollars on the table, and still had the highest-grossing tour of their career

• Travis Scott’s Egyptian pyramid concert shut down by the country’s musicians union – Report

• Berklee College of Music launches performance Major for Electronic Digital Instrument musicians

• Tracii Guns and Todd Kerns launch new project Blackbird Angels

• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Deafheaven announce fall 2023 US tour and 10th anniversary Sunbather reissue

• Skinny Puppy announces second leg of final tour

• Paramore postpone tour dates due to illness

• Killer Mike performs at the Apollo

• Lil Durk gives update on his health status after canceling most of his tour

• Cypress Hill: Tiny Desk Concert

• Keanu Reeves’ rock band Dogstar announces first album in two decades, summer/fall 2023 U.S. tour

• Creed reunites, announces 2024 cruise with 3 Doors Down, Buckcherry & more

• CHVRCHES’ Lauren Mayberry announces first solo tour

• New Tracks

• Denzel Curry teams up with Juicy J for ‘BLOOD ON MY NIKEZ’

• Orbital share new single, ‘The Crane’: Listen

• Soccer Mommy covers Sheryl Crow’s ‘Soak Up the Sun’: Stream

• Lemonade Baby shares ‘Tints’ (feat. Kevin Collett)

• Violet Sands and Deidre & the Dark release new single ‘Desert Rental Home’

• Japan, Man delivers her second single of 2023, ‘Nowhere To Hide’

• FIIZ release new single ‘Lungs’

• James Blake – ‘Loading’

• kid apollo link up with dexter in the newsagent for new single and video ‘fantasise’

• Munan releases new single ‘Luv Me’

• Big Thief’s Buck Meek shares new song and U.S. tour dates: Listen

• The Kills share first new music in seven years with ‘New York’ and ‘LA Hex’

• Blur share 2 more new songs, ‘The Rabbi’ and ‘The Swan’: Listen

• Party Nails releases ‘Someway Somehow’

• Listen to Burial’s new track ‘Unknown Summer’

• Tame Impala – ‘Journey To The Real World’

• Travis Scott enlists Bad Bunny and The Weeknd for ‘K-POP’

• Denzel Curry drops ‘13LOOD ON MY NIKEZ’

• Will.I.Am and Britney Spears team up on ‘Mind Your Business’

• Haim – ‘Home’

• San Holo – ‘feel something real’

• The Mountain Goats release new single, ‘Clean Slate’

• A$AP Rocky shares new single ‘Riot (Rowdy Pipe’n)’: Stream

• NAMESAKE and Jewel Owusu link up for ‘IN DIFFERENT CITIES’

• Midnight Pool Party shares ‘On Your Mind’

• Humane The Moon releases debut single ‘A Track In Orbit’

• Lauren Dejey shares new single ‘I’m Not Ready’

• Alex Amor releases ‘Time To Smile’ / Announces new EP Super Sonic

• illuminati hotties – ‘Truck’

• Sody releases new single/video ‘Trust’

• Emotional Oranges link up with Zhu on ‘Not Like This’

• Blanco White shares single ‘Tarifa’

• Cosial shares new single/video ‘In View’

• Festival Updates

• Judas Priest to replace Ozzy Osbourne at Power Trip Festival: Exclusive

• Farm Aid 2023 lineup announced

• New Albums and EPs

• RAGERS share new single ‘Kill Your Politics’ / Release debut album ‘Death Blow To The Thrones’

• Mitski announces new album The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We

• Quavo Announces New Album Rocket Power

• Nas drops new album Magic 2: Listen

• The Barbie Soundtrack is a shimmering pop mixtape as joyful as the movie: stream

• Chris Stapleton announces new album Higher, Shares ‘White Horse’

• ODESZA & Yellow House – Flaws in Our Design (EP)

• Rezz releases goth-inspired EP, It’s Not A Phase

• Noname announces Sundial tracklist

• The Chemical Brothers announce new album That Beautiful Feeling

• Code Orange announce new album The Above

• RL Grime reveals release date of upcoming third album, APEX

• Nas appears to tease sequel LP to 2021’s Magic

• Explosions in the Sky announce new album, share ‘Ten Billion People’: Stream

• Braid’s Frame & Canvas at 25: the oral history of an emo landmark

• Disclosure forge fourth album Alchemy: Stream It Now

• Disclosure to release new album Alchemy this Friday

• Pixies, Margo Price, Orville Peck lead eclectic Leon Russell tribute album

• SPELLLING announces new album SPELLLING & the Mystery School

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• The Daily Music Report Updates

• Track By Track: Búho Ermitaño discuss their new album, Implosiones

• 10 Albums to Look Forward To In July 2023

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Blur, Guided by Voices, and Paris Texas

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 7/24/2023: illuminati hotties, Burial, Big Thief, Tame Impala, beabadobee, Pearla, and more!

• Notable album releases for 2023