Music News for September 17, 2023

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• MTV VMAs

• SZA’s manager says MTV VMA Artist of the Year snub was “disrespectful”

• ILLENIUM announces upcoming “Starfall” graphic novel with Z2 Comics

• Ice Spice tears up after winning Best New Artist award at 2023 MTV VMAs

• The full list of 2023 VMA winners

• 2023 MTV VMAs performances: Watch them all

• Today’s Headlines

• Bob Boilen (All Songs Considered, Tiny Desk) retiring from NPR after 35 years

• New documentary about The Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala & Omar Rodríguez-López premiering this fall

• *NSYNC to reunite onstage at 2023 MTV Video Music Awards

• Killswitch Engage decided to have everybody in the band become a part of the lyric writing’ for next album

• Amy Fleisher Madden has made the ultimate emo book

• Thom Yorke discusses his five favorite singers, crying over ‘Fake Plastic Trees,’ and the time he was too high to sing ‘Everything In Its Right Place’

• Here are the best song collaborations between female rappers this year

• Watch R.E.M’s Michael Stipe and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke swap bands for one night only in this rare archive footage

• Billie Eilish and Peter Gabriel join music coalition against gun violence

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Playboi Carti debuts new music with Travis Scott & Lil Uzi Vert at secret birthday show

• BTS’s V performs Tiny Desk Concert: Watch

• Olivia Rodrigo announces 2024 tour dates with The Breeders, Pinkpantheress

• Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist announce fall 2023 Voir Dire Tour

• Indigo De Souza: Tiny Desk Concert

• Festival Updates

• Riot Fest 2023 day 1 pics (Foo Fighters, Turnstile, The Breeders, Kim Gordon, Quicksand, Code Orange, more)

• Megan Thee Stallion drops off Global Citizen Festival

• Big Ears announces 2024 lineup

• Storm wreaks havoc as Blue Ridge Rock Festival calls for evacuation, attendees lodge complaints

• New Tracks

• Nas & Lil Wayne reassert ‘Icon’ status on dazzling ‘Magic 3’ collab: Listen

• Drake & SZA drop ‘Slime You Out’ collab: Stream it now

• J Balvin shares a new song with Usher and DJ Khaled: Watch the ‘Dientes’ video

• Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist share song ft. Vince Staples; ‘Voir Dire’ coming to streaming

• Denzel Curry links up with Kenny Mason on menacing track ‘SKED’: Stream

• ODESZA – ‘In The Rain’

• Deftones frontman’s Crosses shares two more songs from upcoming second album

• All Time Low and Avril Lavigne team up for new song ‘Fake As Hell’

• FIDLAR unveil electrifying new single ‘Nudge,’ announce autumn tour

• *NSync announce first new song in over 20 years

• Wilco share new song ‘Cousin’: Listen

• Big Thief – ‘Born For Loving You’

• Aesop Rock – ‘Mindful Solutionism’

• Snail Mail – ‘Easy Thing’ (Demo)

• Bombay Bicycle Club share new single ‘Turn The World On’ and announce four intimate acoustic shows

• Beth Orton and Skinny Pelembe cover Leonard Cohen’s ‘Who By Fire’

• Fiiz share new single ‘Phantom Limb’

• Daffo releases new single ‘Poor Madeline’

• School Disco release their final single from their upcoming record – ‘Victory Day’

• Drake says he’s dropping new For All the Dogs track this week

• Jockstrap – ‘Red Eye’ (Feat. Ian Starr)

• Loraine James – ‘I DM U’ (Feat. Black Midi’s Morgan Simpson)

• Buzzy London newcomers Flat Party release new single ‘I’m Bored, Give Me Love’

• Flo Milli – ‘Chocolate Rain’

• Hojean slows everything down on his latest single ‘Cruel’

• DAGNY releases new single ‘Ray-Bans’ / Announces trilogy of mini-albums

• Bekah Bossard shares a delicate new track, ‘Stranger To Myself’

• Humane The Moon shares his new single ‘I Saw A Dog’

• Code Orange ditch unbridled fury to explore a softer side in ‘Mirror’

• Overmono share standalone single, ‘Blow Out’

• YAOUNDÉBOXINGCLUB shares new single ‘Another Victim’

• Leeds-born, London-based artist Eden Rain releases ‘I Found My Brain’

• The Coral travel to ‘Faraway Worlds’ on their latest single

• Militarie Gun announce split 7” with MSPAINT, release new video

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• New Albums and EPs

• The National announce surprise new album Laugh Track

• Killer Mike’s Deluxe Edition of Michael Album Introduces 4 Bonus Tracks

• Aesop Rock announces new album ft. billy woods, Hanni El Khatib & more, shares trippy song & video

• RL Grime raises the curtain on three-part, concept-guided LP, PLAY

• Fatboy Slim announces 25th anniversary edition of You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby

• Corey Taylor releases sophomore solo album CMF2: Stream

• The Rolling Stones confirm Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney appearances on new album

• Track By Track: Munan takes us through his new EP, Tranquillity

• Sia announces new album Reasonable Woman, shares ‘Gimme Love’: Stream

• Bad Bunny could be releasing a new album this fall

• Snail Mail announces Valentine Demos EP, shares previously unreleased song ‘Easy Thing’: Stream

• Nas announces Magic 3, his last album with Hit-Boy

• Cat Power announces live Bob Dylan covers album, Los Angeles shows (hear 2 tracks)

• Lil Uzi Vert gives update on when Barter 16 will drop

• Listen to The Chemical Brothers new album For That Beautiful Feeling

• mietze conte – dreaming of your latte art (ep)

• SZA announces SOS deluxe edition, titled Lana

• James Blake releases new album, Playing Robots Into Heaven: Listen

• Slowdive’s Neil Halstead on their new album everything is alive

• Slick Rick reportedly readying first album in 24 years

• Killer Mike announces MICHAEL DELUXE, shares ‘Maynard Vignette’: Stream

• The Rolling Stones announce Hackney Diamonds, their first album in 18 years

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• The Daily Music Report Updates

• Track By Track: Ed Prosek discusses his new EP, The Foreigner

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Tirzah,aOlivia Rodrigo, and Sparklehorse

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• Notable album releases for 2023