Music News for June 8, 2025

Scott Evil delivers raw emotion and shoegaze grit on debut album Big Dipper

• Today’s Headlines

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

• Billy Joel details two suicide attempts after affair with bandmate’s wife in And So It Goes documentary

• Jay-Z bets millions on NBA Finals outcome

• Watch a new mini-documentary on the rise and revival of hard house

• Heart’s ‘irreplaceable’ instruments stolen before Atlantic City show

• The Game lists the top 100 LA rappers of all time (in response to Complex’s list)

• Thom Yorke issues statement discussing Israel, Gaza & “social media witch-hunts”

• Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer accepts plea deal in vehicular manslaughter case

• Man assaulted at Punk Rock Bowling for wearing a Nazi suspect shirt

• The self-destruction of Skinny Puppy 1984-1996

• Billy Joel cancels all upcoming performances due to medical condition

• All-American Rejects’s viral house party shows are kind of punk

• Kid Cudi testifies at Diddy’s trial

• Kesha unveils new platform for music creators, SMASH

• Fan Poll: Top 5 Trent Reznor vocal performances

• Rod Wave arrested for aggravated assault, possession of a firearm or knife and 12 other serious charges

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• New Albums and EPs

• Renforshort confronts girlhood with poise and power on new EP a girl’s experience

• On Japanese Breakfast’s melancholic record, Michelle Zauner might be ‘the happiest’ she’s ever been

• Lil Wayne gets back to business with new album Tha Carter VI

• Turnstile release new album Never Enough: Listen and read the full credits

• Little Simz – Lotus

• Madonna announces release of remix album, Veronica Electronica

• Big Thief announces first album as a trio, Double Infinity

• Cate Le Bon announces new album Michelangelo Dying and unveils lead single ‘Heaven Is No Feeling’

• Nilüfer Yanya announces new EP Dancing Shoes, reveals new song ‘Where to Look’: Stream

• Superchunk announce new album Songs In The Key Of Yikes: hear ‘Is It Making You Feel Something’

• Keep finds its stride with expansive third album Almost Static

• Pry channels inner turmoil and raw energy on debut album Wrapped in Plastic

• Munan blends genres and emotions on reflective new EP Everything in Between

• Clipse officially announces new album

• New Tracks

• ThxSoMch wrestles with inner demons on the explosive ‘Would You?’

• The Starting Line reignites their pop-punk spark with ‘Sense of Humor’

• Boris Way accelerates into festival season with tech-house heater ‘Uber On Call’

• Johan Lenox and KayCyy join forces on haunting new single ‘Eclipse’

• Emma Harner confronts homesickness with grace on ‘False Alarm’

• Billy Dodge Moody offers summertime empathy with his latest single ‘Nobody’

• Luke Tyler Shelton reflects on life on the road with latest single ‘A Bus Ain’t A Home’

• Listen to Napalm Death & Thurston Moore cover Ramones’ ‘Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue’

• Sabaton releases new single and cinematic video ‘Hordes Of Khan’

• Purity Ring returns with two-part single, ‘many lives’ and ‘pt ii’

• Grandbrothers break new ground with pulsing single ‘We Collide’

• The All-American Rejects drop anthemic new single, ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’

• Snuggle captures summer’s fleeting magic on new single ‘Sun Tan’

• Pickle Darling leans into luminous vulnerability on ‘Massive Everything’

• Mo Lowda & the Humble close a chapter with fiery single ‘Northside Violet’

• Coral Grief embraces the shifting notion of home on ‘Latitude’

• Starling reflects on small-town love with ‘No Frown’

• Ganser grapples with language, power, and instinct on ‘Black Sand’

• Flyte shares an unvarnished anthem for love on ‘I’m So Down’

• Ax and The Hatchetmen channel heartache and horns on infectious new single ‘Hotel Room’

• Yumi Zouma embraces raw rock swagger on explosive ‘Blister’

• strongboi shares dreamy, soul-infused ‘special’

• Cafuné dives into digital dread on ‘e-Asphyxiation’

• The Cure share awesome Daniel Avery remix of ‘DRONE:NODRONE’ from Mixes of a Lost World

• HAIM release new single ‘Take me back’: Stream

• Listen to Clipse’s new comeback song ‘Ace Trumpets’

• Bruce Springsteen Releases ‘Adelita’ from lost album Inyo: Stream

• Lorde – ‘Man Of The Year’

• World News grapple with isolation on jangly new single ‘Don’t Want To Know’

• Why Bonnie strips it all back on ‘Fake Out’ – Bedroom Version

• Sea Fever channel synth-punk intensity on ‘Able Eyes’

• Poptones navigate new emotional depths on ‘Skin of Sea’

• Vera Daisies debuts with defiant indie rock anthem ‘Chess Game’

• Thom Yorke shares ‘Dialing In,’ the theme song to new AppleTV+ series Smoke

• Wet Leg share heart racing single ‘CPR’ ahead of highly-anticipated sophomore album

• Far Caspian shares expansive new single ‘An Outstretched Hand / Rain From Here To Kerry’

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• The music that influenced Steel Wool’s eponymous debut EP

• New and notable album releases

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Aesop Rock, Swans, and Matt Berninger

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 6/2/2025: Wet Leg, Thom Yorke, Alex G, Lorde, Aesop Rock, Sea Lemon, yeule, Matt Berninger, and more!

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• Festival Updates

• 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)

• Watch Tomorrowland 2025’s official festival trailer

• Muse are going to headline Portugal’s NOS Alive festival alongside Nine Inch Nails

• Sabrina Carpenter fills out BST Hyde Park lineup with Clairo, Beabadoobee, Olivia Dean, Sola and more

• Final names announced for Massive Attack’s LIDO Festival 2025 line-up

• Kneecap removed from Scottish Music Festival over police’s safety concerns

• Rod Stewart confirms Faces reunion with Ronnie Wood for Glastonbury 2025 slot

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Bruce Springsteen rocks with Paul McCartney in Liverpool

• Setlist + video – Sleep Token debut several Even In Arcadia songs live during first show of 2025

• Guns N’ Roses announce fall 2025 Latin American tour

• Ozzy and Sabbath confirm global livestream of their farewell show

• Queens of the Stone Age release Alive in the Catacombs concert film and accompanying documentary

• Watch Turnstile debut 2 new Never Enough songs on Fallon

• Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR announce U.K. and European tour

• Lil Wayne announces Tha Carter VI Tour in summer 2025

• Wednesday announce fall 2025 tour

• Coheed And Cambria reveal Welcome To Forever UK and European tour

• Peter Murphy cancels summer shows due to “recent health issues”

• E-40: Tiny Desk Concert