Music News for June 29, 2024

Ben Parker discusses the sonic influences that shaped My Best Unbeaten Brother’s latest mini-album Pessimistic Pizza

• Today’s Headlines

• Rob Stone, 1968-2024

• Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock dead at 49

• New AI lawsuit values hit songs at $150,000 each

• XXl Freshman Class 2024

• Billie Eilish becomes third artist to reach 100million monthly Spotify listeners – and with just 82 songs

• Watch Kendrick Lamar shoot ‘Not Like Us’ video in Compton

• Queen’s Catalog acquired for $1.27 billion, most expensive music sale ever

• Travis Scott arrested for disorderly intoxication and trespassing in Miami

• Swizz Beatz and Timbaland land new Verzuz deal with Elon Musk and X

• Justin Timberlake arrested for “driving while intoxicated”

• St. Vincent opens Up: ‘I’m queer. I know how to code-switch’

• Aphex Twin teasing something?

• Nas is bringing the classic hip-hop film Beat Street to broadway

• New Albums and EPs

• Tycho announces new album Infinite Health, shares ‘Phantom’

• Bright Eyes announce new album Five Dice, All Threes

• X announce final album and farewell tour, share video for new song ‘Big Black X’: Watch

• Boris and Melvins to release a split album called Twins Of Evil

• SOPHIE to receive posthumous self-titled album this fall

• X announce final album and tour

• PVRIS announces forthcoming mixtape, F.I.L.T.H. and shares new single featuring ‘LIGHTS’

• King Krule unveils surprise EP, SHHHHHH!

• Thurston Moore details new album Flow Critical Lucidity, shares song ft. Lætitia Sadier

• Post Malone announces new album F-1 Trillion

• Bright Eyes confirm new album coming this fall

• Tones And I announces new album, Beautifully Ordinary

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• New Tracks

• Drake gets back into pop music with guest appearances on two songs on Camila Cabello’s new album

• First Jay-Z and Nas Collab ‘No Love Lost’ hits streaming with Shaq’s 1996 album

• Listen to Clairo’s new song ‘Nomad’

• SUUNS share new single and video ‘Doreen’

• Indie-Pop Star, Lily Kincade kicks off 2024 with heartfelt new single ‘Let Me Leave’

• Luís Fernandes shares new breakup anthem ‘Try, Try, Try’

• Thank You Lord for Satan shares new single ‘Wake up, Cariño’ in collaboration with Prado

• Blusher embraces club chaos with ’24 Hours in Paris – Miranda’s Version’

• Cleveland art-rock duo Mr. Gnome announce album ‘A Sliver of Space’ / Share swirling, hypnotic new single ‘Nothing and Everything’

• NYC-based indie rockers Closebye share album title track + video

• Nick Zanca shares ‘You Two’ single and video

• Julia-Sophie releases new single ‘telephone’ from upcoming debut solo album

• Bloc Party drop surprise new single ‘Flirting Again’

• Leyya swaps vulnerability for hedonistic self-assurance in new single ‘Pumped Up High’

• Land of Talk shares electric and acoustic versions of ‘Magnetic Hill’

• Allegra Krieger announces new album / Shares new single ‘Never Arriving’

• The Waeve announce new album ‘City Lights’ / Share new single ‘You Saw’

• Kim Gordon shares new song, ‘ECRP’

• Frozemode releases new single ‘BLACK HOLE’

• gavn! shares new single ‘Jealous Guy’

• Heiko Maile & Julian Demarre share new single ‘REFLECTION (DARK HORSES)’

• ROREY unveils new single ‘Sleepwalking’ from upcoming EP Dysphoria

• Pop-country singer Lily Meola shares new single ‘Gasoline’

• Weston Estate finds peace of mind on new single ‘Petra’

• Nathan Ball releases new single ‘Stateline’

• Violet Sands shares new single ‘Are You Still Watching?’

• Francesca Bono shares the lead single ‘Velvet Flickering Heart,’ from her upcoming debut album

• Hii Spirits shares new single ‘2young’ featuring Rromarin

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• The Daily Music Report Updates

• The music that influenced Max Blansjaar’s False Comforts

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Peso Pluma, Jahnah Camille, and King Krule

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 6/24/2024: Peso Pluma and Cardi B, Fontaines D.C., JPEGMAFIA, King Krule, and more!

• Track By Track: Agnes Hartwick talks about each track from her debut album, Space Age Country Girl

• Track By Track: Waiting for Smith discusses his debut album, Raised Up

• Notable album releases for 2024

• Festival Updates

• Dua Lipa brings out Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker at Glastonbury

• Rick Rubin threw an under-the-radar festival in Tuscany last weekend

• Tyler the Creator cancels Lollapalooza & Outside Land sets, replacements announced

• Tash Sultana, Sublime, Killer Mike, Chris Lake, Black Pumas & More Lead Hulaween 2024 lineup

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Pearl Jam cancels London concert due to illness

• Watch: Geezer Butler joins Foo Fighters on stage for ‘Paranoid’ cover

• André 3000 announces another New Blue Sun tour

• Watch: Megadeth performs ‘Kick The Chair’ for first time in 15 years

• Cloud Nothings announce Here and Nowhere Else anniversary tour

• The Black Dahlia Murder announces fall 2024 tour with Dying Fetus

• St Vincent announces All Born Screaming autumn 2024 UK and EI dates

• Tycho announces first North American tour in 5 years

• Soul Coughing reunite, announce first tour in 25 years

• Kendrick Lamar performs ‘Not Like Us’ five times at The Pop Out Concert after song introduced by Dr. Dre

• The Jesus & Mary Chain and The Psychedelic Furs announce co-headlining tour

• KMFDM announce fall 2024 US 40th anniversary tour