Music News for May 14, 2025

Frances Mistry captures queer longing on glistening new single ‘when i look in her eyes’

• Today’s Headlines

• Tory Lanez hospitalized after prison stabbing

• Queens of the Stone Age announce catacombs concert film

• Lil Wayne accused of abusing ex-girlfriend, kicking her out of house

• Robert Fripp recovering from emergency heart surgery

• Steve Albini’s stuff (LPs, books, posters, more) being sold online to benefit his estate

• ‘I’ve met people with tattoos of it’: Andy Vella on shooting the Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry album cover

• Adam Duritz: ‘It’s my world and I love it’

• Nardwuar to receive his own Nike SB Dunk Low collaboration

• Remembering Pere Ubu’s David Thomas, a frontman who preserved chaos

• Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil names 6 bands he’d like to see in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• 50 best hip-hop diss songs of all time

• Massive Attack throw their support behind Kneecap: ‘Gaza is the story’

• The Alarm singer Mike Peters dead at 66

• Fugazi to release archival concert recordings on streaming services

• Matt Pinfield says he is “slowly but surely recovering” after two months in coma

• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2025 includes OutKast, Soundgarden and Cyndi Lauper

• Al Jourgensen is saying goodbye to Ministry — for real this time: “My ears are tired from music”

• Kneecap say they’ve faced “coordinated smear campaign” since Coachella

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• New Albums and EPs

• Shunkan wrestles with duality and catharsis on Kamikaze Girl

• Motörhead to release “lost” 1976 album The Manticore Tapes

• Turnstile announces Turnstile: Never Enough 14-song visual album set to debut At Tribeca Festival 2025

• Soccer Mommy announces Evergreen (Stripped) EP, shares new song: Listen

• Yungblud announces part one of his new double-album, Idols

• André 3000 surprise releases new project 7 piano sketches

• Men I Trust share their second album of 2025, Equus Caballus

• Every INXS album, ranked

• Teether & Kuya Neil build a dark, vivid world on YEARN IV

• Wishy explore new dimensions on Planet Popstar EP

• R.E.M. release Radio Free Europe benefit EP as Trump moves to cut PBS & NPR funding

• Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts announce new album, reveal Elon Musk diss track “Let’s Roll Again”: Stream

• Lorde announces new album Virgin

• New Tracks

• Calvin Harris and Clementine Douglas link up for new single, ‘Blessings’: Listen

• Horsepower unleashes raw emotion on new single ‘Excalibur’

• Home Counties embrace darker terrain on bold new single ‘Spain’

• Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard present new track, ‘The Spirit’

• Broken Social Scene offshoot CVCHE share new single ‘Bitcoin Takes A Hit,’ memecoin

• Garbage’s Shirley Manson takes on “the absolute war on women in America” on defiant new single ‘Get Out My Face AKA Bad Kitty’

• Of Mice & Men drop new single, announce 2025 tour

• Sophia Kennedy confronts grief and illusion on ‘Imaginary Friend’

• Frankie and the Witch Fingers sharpen the blade with ferocious new track ‘Dead Silence’

• Cola embraces medieval imagery on latest single ‘Mendicant’

• Dead Tooth lashes out with dance-punk fury on ‘You Never Do Shit’

• Fiona Apple drops first new song in 5 years, intense tribute to mothers trapped in detention, ‘Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)’

• Anamanaguchi usher in a new era with ‘Darcie,’ the lead single from upcoming album Anyway

• U.S. Girls shares expansive new single ‘Bookends’ ahead of forthcoming album

• shower curtain shares dreamy ‘tell u’ Crate Remix ahead of deluxe album release

• Flooding confronts male fragility on new single ‘your silence is my favorite song’

• Brutus VIII confronts body image head-on in harrowing new single ‘My Eating Disorder’

• Rico Nasty has shared new single ‘Butterfly Kisses’ ahead of her third album Lethal

• HEALTH and Chelsea Wolfe deliver industrial collab on new single ‘MEAN’

• Newton Faulkner returns with explosive new single ‘Alright Alright Alright’

• Grant Pavol taps into ’90s guitar glory with latest single ‘He Ain’t Right’

• Damiano David unveils infectious new single ‘Voices’ ahead of debut solo album

• Rebūke and P.T. Adamczyk explore dystopian emotion on double single ‘Forever / Chaos’

• AViVA unleashes a fierce critique of the industry with new single ‘Heaven & Hell’

• Subtronics and Flowdan reunite on relentless new single ‘Hunter’

• Mon Rovîa shares stirring new single ‘Oh Wide World’ in support of mental health awareness

• Todd Modern returns with fuzzy, emotional new single ‘break the glass <333'

• The Cure share ‘Warsong’ remix by Deftones’ Chino Moreno

• Flume X Jpegmafia – ‘AI GIRLFRIEND’

• Primus & Tool’s Maynard James Keenan team up on ‘Little Lord Fentanyl’

• Westside Gunn drops ‘Egypt’ remix with some help from Doechii

• 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: Jenny Hval, Blondshell, and Car Seat Headrest

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 5/5/2025: Alison Wonderland, Sufjan Stevens, Turnstile, The Cure and Chino Moreno, Damiano David, and more!

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• Festival Updates

• Nine Inch Nails announce lineup for new festival, Future Ruins

• Farm Aid 2025 lineup: Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Waxahatchee, Margo Price, Billy Strings & more

• Iggy Pop, Jack White, and Sex Pistols to play new CBGB festival

• Open’er confirms Future as 2025 headliner

• Weezer, Car Seat Headrest, Janelle Monáe, Aurora, Bright Eyes to Headline 2025 Bumbershoot Festival

• 7 bands that defined Incineration Festival 2025

• ACL Fest 2025 lineup (Sabrina Carpenter, The Strokes, Doechii, Doja Cat, Rilo Kiley, Mk.gee, more)

• Kendrick Lamar and Doechii to set to Headline Spilt Milk 2025

• The bands you need to see at Mad Cool 2025

• Tony Hawk announces ‘Pro Skater’ music festival

• Pitchfork Festival booker launches new Chicago fest

• Coachella 2026 Tickets: Complete buying guide, dates & pricing

• Flow Festival Helsinki announce new names for stacked 2025 line up

• Roskilde reveals full line-up for 2025

• Open’er unveil Muse as 2025 headliners

• Lana Del Rey debuts new music at Stagecoach, says she “Kissed Morgan Wallen”

• Mumford and Sons added to Stagecoach 2025

• Riot Fest reveals full 2025 20th anniversary lineup

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Foo Fighters announce first 2025 concert

• Mumford & Sons announce 2025 Railroad Revival tour

• Bullet For My Valentine release statement about the sudden end of their tour with Trivium

• Melvins & Redd Kross announce US tour dates

• Watch Turnstile’s insane Baltimore gig in full now

• Beth Gibbons: Tiny Desk Concert

• Alice In Chains cancels their immediate shows due to drummer’s health

• NEWS: Lorde announces major tour

• The Who announce their Truly Grand Finale tour

• Descendents announce summer tour with Teen Mortgage, Liquid Mike & MattstaGraham

• The Chemical Brothers announce DJ dates

• Big Thief announce fall 2025 tour

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club announce Howl 20th anniversary UK and European tour

• Grandaddy playing ‘The Sophtware Slump’ in full on first North American tour in 21 years