Month: August 2025

Slipknot are reissuing their 1999 self-titled debut album for its belated 25th anniversary, out September 5.

The new edition will be available in digital, 2xLP, and 2xCD formats, or as a deluxe 59-track, 6xLP box set, and will feature previously-unreleased material including Indigo Ranch demos with Ross Robinson, as well as Jay Baumgardner and Lars Ulrich Wild Mixes, in addition to live recordings from three shows during the band’s first world tour. You can listen to a previously unheard early demo of album cut “Prosthetics” – HERE.

Slipknot released their latest studio album, The End, So Far, in 2022.

Preorder Slipknot (25th Anniversary Edition) – HERE.

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The Chainsmokers have officially released their new single “White Wine & Adderall” featuring vocals from Beau Nox.

Drew Taggart and Alex Pall share about the song: “It took a whole day to get the main three lines of this song. We sat with the incredible Beau Nox, scratching our heads and left the session, ultimately thinking nothing would come from the tiny hook we had written. A couple of days later Drew and I were talking about this UKG wave and I said I bet you can’t make a version of this in that world. A few hours later, it was hitting pretty hard. It wasn’t a song that we immediately imagined releasing but after playing it in many of our shows and seeing the reaction, it became clear to us it needed to come out. Last time I bet Drew he couldn’t make a certain style of song, we ended up with Don’t Let Me Down. After all these years, maybe this is how we work best.”

The release of “White Wine & Adderall” follows last year’s “Don’t Lie” with Kim Petras; see the lyric video for the track – here.

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Nickelback has released a new EP focused on their single “San Quentin.” The three-track set includes the original song (named after the infamous California prison_ as well as a radio edit and instrumental version.

“San Quentin” was first released as the lead single off Nickelback’s most recent album, 2022’s Get Rollin’ and quickly became a staple in the band’s live set during their sold-out 2023 Get Rollin’ Tour.

Stream the San Quentin EP – HERE.
See the music video for ‘San Quentin’ – HERE.

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The 2021 Tom Petty documentary, Somewhere You Feel Free – The Making of Wildflowers, will be released on blu-ray September 12th — marking the critically acclaimed documentary’s first-ever release in a physical format.

The 90-minute film, produced by Peter Afterman with executive producers Mary Wharton, Dan Braun and Tom’s daughter Adria Petty, features a collection of 16mm film that was discovered in Petty’s archive, including unseen footage captured during the making of his 1994 album Wildflowers. The documentary shows Petty at work with producer Rick Rubin, and also includes interviews with Rubin, Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, and daughter Adria.

See the trailer for Somewhere You Feel Free – The Making of Wildflowers – HERE.

Pre-order on Blu-ray – HERE.

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In honor of the 25th anniversary of The Smashing Pumpkins’ 2000 album, Machina/The Machines of God, a new deluxe vinyl box set will be available on Aug. 22 – exclusively through Billy Corgan‘s Madame Zuzu’s tea shop in Highland Park, Illinois.  The box set also includes the companion record Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music and 32 bonus tracks.

Machina/The Machines Of God was the fifth album from The Smashing Pumpkins; Madame Zuzu’s will be offering the 80-song box set exclusively, which will include a 48-track Machina as well as the 32 tracks of bonus demos, outtakes, and live performances.  The Smashing Pumpkins are also celebrating Machina’s 25th anniversary with other reissues, including a 2LP vinyl reissue, a limited-edition color 2LP in corona red/black, and on CD.

Corgan in a press release: “It’s taken some 25 years to finally release MACHINA as we in the band had hoped it would be, and with MadameZuzus.com as the only place one can get this expansive, 80-song collection, I personally could not be more proud. MACHINA was meant as our swan song, and it was truly a labor of love to bring it to fruition, however broken we were back then. But with the band about to embark on a global tour in 2025, as well as my solo tour with The Machines of God, this set stands as a celebration and testament of will, for the songs alone have helped James, Jimmy, and I keep the faith.”

Preorder the Machina/The Machines of God box set – HERE.

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Wolf Alice have shared the video for their new single ‘The Sofa’ which is taken from the north London quartet’s album, ‘The Clearing’, set for release on Friday, August 22.

Discussing the song, Rowsell said it was about “not trying so hard to figure everything out, as well as reflecting on ageing and attempting to get to grips with “things that have or haven’t happened in your life .. It’s also about trying to get to grips with the polarising aspects of one’s life when you’re in a band. You’ve just played a huge tour – and you come home, and you have your dinner on the sofa. For me, it’s summed up in how I treat TV. I used to never watch the same thing twice because I thought I’ve got so much to discover! And now I’m like, It’s okay if I just want to rewatch Peep Show for the thirteenth time.”

The accompanying video was shot by Fiona Jane Burgess, and sees the band in their native North London as Rowsell is transported on a surrealist fantasy, having never left the comfort of her sofa. See the video for The Sofa – HERE.

Wolf Alice are set to hit the road on a headlining tour of the UK and Ireland in support of their new record; for info head HERE.

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