Music News for May 21, 2024

3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Crumb, Billie Eilish, and Shellac

• Today’s Headlines

• Tom Hanks asks Chet Hanks to explain Kendrick vs Drake feud

• Marvel pays tribute to MF DOOM in first DOOM comic since 2000

• Waxahatchee: Midnight Chats – Episode 132

• Staind’s founding drummer Jon Wysocki has died at age 53

• Franchino, Italian dance music pioneer, dies aged 71

• Thundercat on sobriety: “I decided to stop drinking in the apocalypse, which wasn’t great timing”

• Steve Albini’s bands Shellac and Big Black return to Spotify & other streaming services

• Lauryn Hill hints that she’s dropping new music soon

• Guns n’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan talks mental health, love, sobriety and martial arts

• A.G. Cook: Blurred Lines

• U.S. House of Representatives passes TICKET Act calling for better pricing transparency

• Marilyn Manson signs with Nuclear Blast

• Three people shot at Lil Baby music video shoot in Atlanta – Report

• Tame Impala catalog acquired by Sony Music Publishing

• Eminem kills off his alter ego with Slim Shady obituary in Detroit newspaper

• Rosalía is the new global ambassador for Dior and face of the Lady Dior campaign

• Dennis Thompson, MC5 drummer and last surviving original member, dead at 75

• The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson will enter conservatorship, judge rules

• Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61

• New Albums and EPs

• Slash says Guns N’ Roses are ‘trying’ to make a new album

• Vince Staples announces his final Def Jam album, Dark Times

• Neil Young + Crazy Horse announce archival album Early Daze

• Mc Lyte announces first album in almost a decade

• Mach-Hommy taps Black Thought, Roc Marciano & more for new album #RICHAXXHAITIAN

• Lupe Fiasco announces new album Samurai with soulful first single

• Shellac: To All Trains – Album review

• The The announce tour and first album in 24 years, share song: Listen

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• New Tracks

• Mike Lindsay releases new single ‘Pretender to Surrender’ Featuring Anna B Savage

• Heiko Maile and Julian Demarre, pop musicians turned film composers, release new single ‘Melancholia’

• Your Old Droog – ‘Mercury Thermometers’

• Allday reveals expansive new single ‘Miss You Still’ featuring Cub Sport

• Jake Bugg announces new album ‘A Modern Day Distraction’ / New Single ‘Zombieland’ Out Now

• Las Nubes return with electrifying new single ‘Pesada’

• Max Blansjaar shares ‘Red Tiger,’ the final single from debut album ‘False Comforts’

• M. Vaughan captivates with emotive indie electronic single ‘Cold Read’

• Silent Mass releases third single of 2024, ‘The Great Chaos’

• Indie-folk star Chris Lanzon champions infinite relationships in new single ‘Lilo’

• Manchester-by-Calderdale’s Splint hit the road with new single ‘Continuing Endless’

• Nashville’s Wila Frank releases captivating new single, ‘Light of the Moon’ / Announce upcoming EP

• Dr. Dog shares new single ‘Tell Your Friends’

• Young Jesus shares ‘Am I the Only One’

• Beachwood Sparks share new single ‘Falling Forever’ ahead of first album in 12 years

• Nashon ignites the summer with thrilling new single ‘runaway’

• daste. shares new single ‘Around’

• Jessica Boudreaux shares powerful new single/video ‘Back Then’ from her upcoming solo album

• John Myrtle delivers sunshine-filled folk pop with latest single, ‘How Do You Break a Heart?’

• Baltimore’s Moon Tide Gallery releases new single ‘Television’

• Martial Arts strikes again with explosive new single ‘Defector’

• Michael Bernard Fitzgerald releases new single ‘After A While’ / Announces upcoming album Horizon Lines

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• Festival Updates

• Pavement, James Blake, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile to headline Bumbershoot 2024

• Primavera Sound renames one of its stages for Steve Albini

• Pale Waves to headline Manchester’s Neighbourhood Festival

• John Legend, Jill Scott & more set for Blue Note Jazz Festival Presents: The Black Radio Experience

• Watch Ministry perform songs from With Sympathy, Twitch, and more during their Cruel World 2024 set

• San Francisco’s Portola Festival has Jamie xx, Four Tet, Justice, M.I.A., & much more for 2024

• Watch Bauhaus offshoot Tones on Tail play their first show in 40 years at Cruel World 2024 (full video, setlist)

• Blue Ridge Rock Festival 2024 is cancelled

• Austin City Limits taps Dua Lipa, Tyler, the Creator, Chris Stapleton

• Governors Ball announces 2024 After Dark shows

• Tomorrowland Winter 2025 dates announced

• Cherym, Desert Sharks, Murder Club, The Amniotics among first wave of artists announced for Loud Women Fest 2024

• Knotfest Iowa 2024 lineup revealed – Who’s joining Slipknot?

• Summer Smash 2024 lineup (Travis Scott’s Catcus Jack, Chief Keef, Denzel Curry, JID, Flo Milli, more)

• III Points initial lineup (Arca, Justice, Jamie xx, Bad Gyal, Toro y Moi, JUNGLE, more)

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Nas to Celebrate 30th anniversary of Illmatic with three Las Vegas shows featuring live orchestra

• EMF announce first US tour dates in over 30 years

• Watch IDLES perform ‘Gift Horse’ and ‘A Gospel’ on Later… with Jools Holland

• Neil Young and Crazy Horse whip up a rock n’ roll storm during rainy NYC show

• Thievery Corporation announces 2024 European tour

• The New Pornographers announce summer tour

• The Daily Music Report Updates

• Jonas Saalbach shares the stories behind each track from his latest EP, Acceleration

• juicer unveils the intriguing story behind each track from their debut album, retire the fences

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 5/20/2024: Maria Becerra, Your Old Droog and Conductor Williams, Jonas Saalbach, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Billie Eilish, and more!

• Notable album releases for 2024