Music News for June 18, 2025

Dean Johnson shares ‘Before You Hit the Ground,’ a bittersweet single from upcoming LP I Hope We Can Still Be Friends

• Today’s Headlines

• First official trailer for Ozzy + Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning livestream arrives

• Liquid Death to release limited-edition ice-tea cans containing Ozzy’s DNA

• Jeremy Allen White becomes Bruce Springsteen in Deliver Me from Nowhere Trailer: Watch

• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus ban Trump supporters from attending their shows

• R Kelly overdoses in prison, claims it was part of plot by prison staff to kill him

• New Talking Heads biography highlights the band’s early days in New York City: Where to get your copy online

• Wiz Khalifa reveals the amount of blunts he smokes a day

• Green Day hit out at Trump and Musk at Download 2025: “We are slipping into fascism. It’s up to us to fight back!”

• The Beach Boys singer Brian Wilson dead at 82

• Nitzer Ebb Frontman Douglas McCarthy Dead At 58

• Sly Stone, legendary funk musician, dies at 82

• Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video surpasses two billion views on YouTube

• Snoop Dogg honored with Ultimate Icon Award, performs medley of hits with songs ‘Drop It Like Its Hot,’ ‘Nuthin But a G Thang” and more at 2025 BET Awards

• The Questlove interview

• Tony Wilson Archive announces first-ever public exhibition in Manchester

• Aphex Twin and The Orb feature on new Telepathic Fish compilation

• Eminem’s ‘Rap God’ flipped into hilarious weather forecast by L.A. meteorologist

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• New Albums and EPs

• Sea Lemon navigates uncertainty and wonder on debut LP Diving For A Prize

• The Wants confront isolation and legacy on uncompromising sophomore album Bastard

• Sabrina Carpenter responds to claims of Man’s Best Friend artwork “reducing women to pets”: “I can not give a fuck about it”

• Every Fugazi album, ranked

• Sabrina Carpenter is already on to the next album

• New Tracks

• Fred Again.., Skepta, & Plaqueboymax debut new song and stream Brooklyn pop-up on Twitch

• Asher White explodes boundaries on ‘Beers with my name on them’

• Retail Drugs shares explosive new single ‘manny’ ahead of upcoming album rECKless dRIVing

• The Roebucks illuminate with gritty ‘Mona’ ahead of UK tour

• Powfu unveils ‘the songbird & the bookworm,’ lead single from upcoming EP the life of a lofi boy

• Four Tet channels Mazzy Star’s beauty with ‘Into Dust (Still Falling)’

• NEWS: bar italia share new single ‘Cowbella’ with tour dates and twisted fashion video

• Biohazard returns with first new single in over 13 years, ‘Forsaken’

• Moon Panda shares dreamy new single ‘Lost World’ from upcoming album Dumb Luck

• U.S. Girls share new single ‘No Fruit’ ahead of 2025 album Scratch It

• Mind-melting melodist Raz Ohara shares ‘Beyond and Deep Down’

• Minais B unveils final single ‘3 Phases’ ahead of new album release

• Cass McCombs announces new album, shares video for new song: Watch

• Alison Goldfrapp shares new track, ‘Sound & Light’

• Your Favorite Color’s ‘Less in Love’ is a defiant alt-rock breakup anthem

• Magenta Moon breaks free with hypnotic anthem ‘You Like Me’

• heddlu confronts fractured love on stirring new single ‘Wish You Were Her’

• Buscabulla tease intimate new album with bass-driven single ‘Miraverahí’

• HO99O9 streams ‘Upside Down,’ announces new record Tomorrow We Escape

• Kim Gordon reworks ‘Bye Bye’ into Trump protest song, shares new video: Watch

• Pearly Drops drift into dreamlike disillusionment on ‘Ratgirl’

• Lei Hope delivers a soulful meditation discussing the lost time between siblings on ‘Little Sign’

• Mal Blum unveils bittersweet breakup anthem ‘Must Get Lonely’

• Bruce Springsteen shares previously unreleased track ‘Sunday Love’

• Lil Wayne drops surprise Future & Lil Baby collab

• Suede release new single ‘Trance State’ ahead of tenth studio album Antidepressants

• Primal Fear unveils ‘The Hunter’ single from upcoming Domination album

• Pyncher unearths dark beauty on expansive new single ‘At The Seaside’

• Tora Luna dives into surreal heartache on ‘Venus, Temptress’ featuring ANELIE

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• New and notable album releases

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Nxdia, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, and Queens of the Stone Age

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 6/16/2025: Daphni, Nxdia, Small Forward, Japanese Breakfast, Ho99o9, and more!

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• Festival Updates

• Wilco announce Sky Blue Sky 2026 lineup (Dr. Dog, MJ Lenderman, Waxahatchee, Yo La Tengo, more)

• Watch Alex G debut a new song at Outbreak Fest

• Bonnaroo 2025 now cancelled

• Riot Fest announces 2025 set times

• Chappell Roan sings the hell out of Heart’s ‘Barracuda’ at Primavera Sound: Watch

• Linkin Park are going to headline Rock in Rio Lisbon festival in June 2026

• Burberry’s festival campaign features a star-studded lineup

• Corona Capital 2025 lineup (Chappell Roan, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Deftones, QOTSA, Weezer, more)

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Watch Haim chat and perform ‘Down to Be Wrong’ on Fallon

• The Offspring perform ‘Come Out and Play’ and three other dongs on Kimmel: Watch

• SZA says she was anxious that people would only go to the Grand National Tour to ‘see Kendrick’

• The Violent Femmes announce fall tour

• yeule announces fall tour with Fish Narc

• Addison Rae announces tour

• PinkPantheress announces 2025 North American tour dates

• Devo and the B-52’s announce joint headline tour of North America

• Trivium announces fall 2025 North American tour with joiner and Heriot

• Tune in to a mini-concert with Miya Folick