Music News for September 23, 2023

Track By Track: Babel break down their new album, Marriage

• Today’s Headlines

• DJ Drama opens up about spending six figures a year on opioid addiction

• Nine songs – CHAI

• Lorde shares painful truths in emotional letter to fans: ‘I’m living with heartbreak again’

• Krist Novoselic on 30 years of In Utero and using AI to restore Nirvana music

• 20 Questions With Fatboy Slim: What he’s learned from David Byrne, a lost night out with Cher & 25 years of You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

• Scream drummer Kent Stax has died

• Sufjan Stevens reveals Guillain-Barre Syndrome diagnosis

• Lana Del Rey explains viral Waffle House photos

• Living Colour blasts Jann Wenner over ‘absurd’ and ‘insulting’ comments about black and female artists

• BTS’ Suga reveals military enlistment date

• Minor Threat photobook by Glen E. Friedman coming (get a sneak peek)

• Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner removed from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame board after comments on black & female musicians

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

• 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

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• Tour & Live Music Updates

• Rush legend Geddy Lee announces UK spoken word tour for December

• Sky Ferreira announces fall US tour

• Queens of the Stone Age announces December 2023 west coast tour dates

• See Rick Astley cover “one of the best songs ever”, Foo Fighters’ ‘Everlong’

• IDLES announce 2024 European tour

• The Pretenders announce 2023 intimate UK club shows

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

• BTS’s V performs Tiny Desk Concert: Watch

• Festival Updates

• AC/DC, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Guns N’ Roses and Tool: Set times for Power Trip Festival revealed

• Tomorrowland Brasil announces full timetable for 2023 festival

• Riot Fest 2023 day 3 pics (The Cure, Gorilla Biscuits, AFI, Ride, Balance and Composure, more)

• 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

• New Tracks

• DJ Shadow – ‘You Played Me’

• AVIV finds her ‘Running Shoes’ on her latest single

• CLOVES shares her latest single, ‘Care’

• Hera Lind releases a sentimental new single ‘Someday’

• LU KALA releases new single ‘Hotter Now’

• Indie-rock four-piece Chasing Kites unveil energetic new single ‘Late Night’

• blink-182 share 2 new songs, recreate their classic music video scenes in ‘One More Time’

• The Breeders Enlist J. Mascis to Rework ‘Divine Hammer’

• Bleachers – ‘Modern Girl’

• Bo Milli shares her new single ‘I’m In’

• Brooklyn’s Glassio and Los Angeles-based Beauty Queen release ‘A Friend Like You’

• CHAI present the brand new track, ‘GAME’

• Of Mice & Men shares new song ‘Indigo’

• Faye Webster – ‘Lifetime’

• Today Japan, Man shares new single ‘Overdid It’ / Announces debut album, ‘Metropolis’

• Automan release ‘Peace’ – Their second and final teaser from their debut EP ‘Vegetables’

• Leeds band China Steps release new single ‘Tintwhistle’

• Brighton’s Flip Top Head share new single ‘Alfred Street’

• Chris Stapleton & Snoop Dogg reimagine ‘In the Air Tonight’ for Monday Night Football theme song

• Doechii goes hard on new single, ‘Pacer’

• The Dandy Warhols pay homage to The Damned & MC5 on new single ‘Summer of Hate’

• Keni Titus releases her third song of 2023, ‘just keep driving’

• Al Costelloe delivers a bit of sonic therapy with her latest single ‘Shrink’s Couch’

• Decant Elevates Sonic Boundaries with Latest Single ‘Passing’

• Indie-Rock Four Piece The Bedside Morale Drop Debut Single ‘Safeword’

• 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

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

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• New Albums and EPs

• MGMT tease new album reportedly titled Loss Of Life

• Zach Bryan drops new EP Boys of Faith featuring Bon Iver, Noah Kahan: Stream

• Lil Wayne announces new project Tha Fix Before Tha VI

• Deftones reveals new album producer, new music coming in 2024

• Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson announces 2024 solo album The Mandrake Project + tour dates

• Johnny Marr announces Spirit Power: The Best of Johnny Marr, shares new song: Listen

• The Polyphonic Spree announces new album, shares new song ‘Galloping Seas’

• Sleaford Mods announce More UK Grim, share ‘Big Pharma’

• Scream announce first album in 30 years ft. Dave Grohl, Ian MacKaye & more (stream a track)

• Blink-182 announce new album One More Time…

• Kim Petras Releases Surprise New Album, Problematique

• The National release surprise new album Laugh Track: Stream

• Neil Young announces 50th anniversary release of Time Fades Away

• 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

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

• 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)

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• The Daily Music Report Updates

• 3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Mitski, Nas, and Alan Palomo

• What We’re Listening To Playlist for 9/18/2023: Big Thief, Aesop Rock, Killer Mike, Jockstrap, Snail Mail, and more!

• 10 Albums to Look Forward to in September 2023

• Notable album releases for 2023