Music News for March 13, 2026

Exclusive Premiere: Chinese American Bear serve up a nostalgic groove on new single ‘Mama’

• Today’s Headlines

• Ex-Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra hospitalized after stroke

• Alice Cooper announces tell-all memoirs and UK book tour

• Britney Spears arrested for alleged DUI

• MX LONELY filter big feelings through even bigger riffs

• Wu-Tang Clan’s Oliver “Power” Grant dead: Method Man, Raekwon, more pay tribute

• Phil Collins, Mariah Carey, Sade, and Oasis nominated for Rock Hall

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• New Albums and EPs

• Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & Surf Gang announce double LP & tour, share ‘Minty // Earth’

• Keanu Reeves’ Dogstar announce new album and tour, share title track

• Honey Dijon announces new album NightLife: Hear ‘Just Friends’

• Fugazi’s Shelved In On The Kill Taker sessions with Steve Albini have finally been officially released

• Etched in stone and lunar light, Paper Wings navigate the human experience on Mountains on the Moon

• Sturgill Simpson releases new Johnny Blue Skies album, Mutiny After Midnight, early on YouTube

• Oasis have contributed an exclusive live track to War Child’s star-studded HELP(2) album

• Ritt Momney rebuilds from the ground up on BASE

• Trxy! confronts darkness on debut album Drowning In Bliss

• Listen to Nine Inch Nails’ TRON:Ares Divergence remix album ft Boys Noize, Arca, Danny L Harle, Jack Dangers, more

• Gorillaz release new album The Mountain: Listen and read the full credits

• HEALTH have released a new remix EP, R-TYPE 1

• Squarepusher announces new album Kammerkonzert: hear ‘K2 Central’

• The Claypool Lennon Delirium announce new concept album (new single & exclusive vinyl)

• Social Distortion announce first album in 15 years, Born To Kill, share title track (exclusive vinyl)

• Bon Iver to launch archival series with new live album

• New Tracks

• The Academy Is… ride the memory of Chicago nights on ‘L Train’

• Robber Robber unravels tension and uncertainty on new single ‘Pieces’

• Midnight Pool Party returns with quiet heartbreak into dance floor glow on ‘NOTICE ME’

• runo plum finds fragile emotion on new single ‘butterflies’ ahead of Bloom Again EP

• Really Good Time channel pop culture chaos on new single ‘Bob Dylan Was On Pawn Stars in 2010’

• Kim Gordon releases ‘PLAY ME,’ announces new tour dates

• Exclusive Premiere: beaming reflects on emotional stalemates in new single ‘Stuck (here)’

• Girl Scout releases sharp industry critique with new single ‘Crumbs’

• Archspire unleash blistering new single ‘Red Goliath’ ahead Oo Too Fast To Die

• Kaskade and EZI mark three decades of dance with ‘Freedom’

• Benny Benassi and Axis Zero return to electro house roots with ‘Aku Aku’

• Max Rad captures the afterglow of romance with new single ‘a love letter’

• Cass McCombs and Chris Cohen explore dignity and madness on new collaborative 7-inch

• Arky Waters delivers club-ready texture on new single ‘OMG’

• nimino debuts ‘Orla’ single inspired by London architecture

• Metric confront mortality with high energy single ‘Time Is A Bomb’

• Tycho reimagines recent collaboration with new instrumental single ‘Forge’

• Monsieur Mellow and Taj Ralph capture late-night vibes on ‘Slow Down’

• zzzahara navigates dream worlds with new single ‘I Can Be Yours’

• villagerrr keeps the circle tight with new single ‘Locket’ and album announcement

• Stephen Becker explores the complexity of change in new single ‘Bad Idea’

• Cashier drop ‘Part From Me’ before The Weight EP release

• Bory sharpens focus with ‘Exactly What I Needed’ before releasing Never Turns To Night

• Exclusive Premiere: Iguana Death Cult unleash their explosive new single ‘Guns Out’ with raw energy and introspection

• José González unveils ‘A Perfect Storm’ ahead of fifth studio album

• PinkPantheress drops Four Tet remix of ‘Illegal’

• Lamb Of God unleash new single, ‘Blunt Force Blues’

• Sepultura announce final EP, share ‘The Place’

• Gnarls Barkley return with dreamy ‘Pictures’ from first album in 18 years, Atlanta

• Courtney Barnett shares latest two cuts from new album Creature of Habit

• The Daily Music Report Updates

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• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 3/9/2026: Depeche Mode, Loraine James, Peter Gabriel, Daniela Andrade, Flying Lotus, and more!

• New and notable album releases (2026)

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• Festival Updates

• Aftershock reveals 2026 lineup

• Primus, Janelle Monae, Kurt Vile, Bouncing Souls, Hot Mulligan, more playing NJ’s North 2 Shore

• Sharon Osbourne confirms Ozzfest’s return — ‘We’re gonna do it’

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Lamb of God announces pop-up performance in Philadelphia to celebrate Into Oblivion album release

• Marilyn Manson announces Antichrist Superstar 30th anniversary shows

• Jill Scott announces summer US tour

• Watch Gorillaz play ‘Clint Eastwood’ and ‘The Moon Cave’ on SNL debut

• Arlo Parks announces North American tour

• Built to Spill announce 2026 spring and summer US tour

• Courtney Love teases Hole tour with Melissa Auf der Maur

• Sebastian Bach says he got Dee Snider’s ‘full blessing’ to front twisted Sister: ‘I have tears in my eyes right now’

• Trent Reznor doesn’t know if Nine Inch Nails will continue to tour