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Anybody who thought the vinyl resurgence was just a fad was mistaken: The industry has experienced a legitimate revival. As a result, music fans are interested in physical media in ways they may not have if the decades-old medium hasn’t made a comeback. That doesn’t mean everybody is listening to just their parents’ old music, though. That’s part of it, sure, thanks to rereleases that present classic albums in new ways. A vital part of the renewed vinyl wave, though, is new projects being released as records, of which there are plenty.

Whatever you might be into, each month brings a new slew of vinyl releases that has something for everybody. Some stand out above the rest, naturally, so check out some of our favorite vinyl releases of September below.

Cardi B — Am I The Drama?

Whether Cardi B is indeed the drama remains to be seen. What we do know is that she’s offering cool vinyl options for her new album, which was one one of the most anticipated of the past few years. The deep red-colored vinyl is a particularly striking pressing.

Get it here.

Wednesday — Bleeds

In his review of Bleeds, Uproxx’s Steven Hyden dubbed Wednesday “a defining band of 2020s indie.” Of the album specifically, he declared, “Bleeds remains a defiant statement of artistic and regional specificity that could not come from any other band.”

Get it here.

Yusuf/Cat Stevens — On The Road To Findout: Greatest Hits

Yusuf/Cat Stevens has a new memoir, Cat On The Road To Findout, dropping next month. That’s good news for readers but also for listeners, as they’re an accompanying greatest hits album. It’s truly comprehensive, featuring songs spanning from 1967 to 2023.

Get it here.

Vince Guaraldi Trio — A Charlie Brown Christmas (Reissue)

It was just summer, and yet, it’s also nearly the holiday season. No winter is complete without A Charlie Brown Christmas and its beloved soundtrack, which is actually one of the best-selling jazz albums ever. This year is the 60th anniversary of the special and the 75th anniversary of Peanuts more broadly, so now we have a special zoetrope reissue of the album.

Get it here.

Coolio — “Gangsta’s Paradise (Reissue)”

It turns out we’ve been spending most of our lives living in a gangsta’s paradise as Coolio’s iconic hit turns 30 years old in 2025. The song, along with the instrumental, is getting a reissue on 7-inch vinyl, and that follows a greatest hits collection that came out earlier this year.

Get it here.

Slipknot — Slipknot (25th Anniversary Edition)

Slipknot have carved out their own special place in contemporary music history and it all started 25 years ago, with their self-titled debut album. The new anniversary edition is a must-have for fans, a box set that has exclusive new artwork, 59 recordings (40 previously unreleased), collectors photo cards, and more goodies.

Get it here.

Buckingham Nicks — Buckingham Nicks (Reissue)

Pre-Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks actually released a self-titled album as the duo Buckingham Nicks. That project has historically been a tough one to get your hands on, but now the duo have finally decided to revisit it and give it a wide release.

Get it here.

David Bowie — I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016)

Bowie’s estate has been pumping out a series of box sets and the latest tackles his final era. Spanning from 2002 to 2016, it features his final four albums and more material spread across the 18-piece set. Included are bonuses like a previously unreleased live set and a collection of 41 rare non-album tracks. David Bowie’s final output was appreciated at the time of release, but the loss of him makes this collection resonate even more.

Get it here.

The Monkees — Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd (Reissue)

The Monkees were pop titans in the 1960s, even during more experimental eras like Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. This new reissue marks the first time the album has been pressed to vinyl from the original analog stereo master reels. It’s also limited to just 5,000 individually numbered copies.

Get it here.

My Morning Jacket — Z 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

My Morning Jacket is going all out for the 20th anniversary of Z. In addition to a run of anniversary shows, the band is also releasing an expanded deluxe edition. The 3LP set comes with outtakes, previously unreleased material, and demos from the era. One of the best indie albums of its era, this version is essential for your collection.

Get it here.

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in October. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, October 3

• Adekunle Gold — FUJI (Somtin Different)
• AFI — Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… (Run For Cover Records)
• Agriculture — The Spiritual Sound (Flenser)
• Ann Annie — El Prado (Nettwerk)
• The Bloody Beetroots — Forever Part One EP (Out Of Line Music)
• Blue Lake — The Animal (Tonal Union)
• Carter Faith — Cherry Valley (MCA)
• Cory Marks — Sorry For Nothing Volume 2 (Better Noise Music)
• Deaf Havana — We’re Never Getting Out (So Recordings)
• dodie — Not For Lack of Trying (Universal)
• Dolo Tonight — DVD Rental Store (Epitaph)
• Gatlin — The Eldest Daughter (Dualtone)
• Harrison Storm — Empty Garden (Nettwerk)
• Haerts — Laguna Road (HAERTS)
• Ink — BIG BUSKIN’ EP (Mercury Records)
• James Morrison — Fight Another Day (Cooking Vinyl)
• Jamie Woon — 3, 10, Why, When (Also Can)
• Johnny Clarke — African Roots (Cleopatra Records)
• Joseph Arthur and Peter Buck — Arthur Buck 2 (Megaforce)
• Ledisi — For Dinah (Candid Records)
• Lovejoy — One Simple Trick (Anvil Cat Records)
• Marta — Out the Way (False Idols)
• Matisyahu — Ancient Child (Fallen Sparks)
• Max Pope — Praise Animal (Kartel Music Group)
• Mayday Parade — Sad (Many Hats Endeavors)
• Michael Schenker Group — Don’t Sell Your Soul (Ear Music)
• Moon Panda — Dumb Luck (Moon Panda)
• Nicki Bluhm — Rancho Deluxe (Nicki Bluhm)
• Noah Floersch — Francis Aquarius (Concord)
• Prewn — System (Prewn)
• Rachael Yamagata — Starlit Alchemy (Jullian Records)
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus — X’s For Eyes (Better Noise Music)
• Richard Ashcroft — Lovin’ You (Virgin Music Group)
• The Rions — Everything Every Single Day (Community Music)
• Rocket — R Is for Rocket (Transgressive)
• S. Carey — Watercress EP (Jagjaguwar)
• Snooper — Worldwide (Third Man)
• Sparks — MADDER! EP (Transgressive)
• Stay Inside — Lunger (Tiny Engines)
• Taylor Swift — The Life of a Showgirl (Taylor Swift)
• teethin — Greed Between The Lines EP (Silent Kid Records)
• Thrice — Horizons/West (Epitaph)
• Upchuck — I’m Nice Now (Domino)
• Vitamin String Quartet — VSQ Performs Billie Eilish (Vitamin Records)
• Waylon Jennings — Songbird (Thirty Tigers)
• Will Anderson — How Little Love Is / How Worth Everything (Independent Co.)
• Worthitpurchase — Worthitpurchase (Worthitpurchase)

Friday, October 10

• Amber Mark — Pretty Idea (Interscope)
• The Antlers — Blight (Transgressive)
• The Autumn Defense — Here and Nowhere (Yep Roc)
• Blawan — SickElixir (XL Recordings)
• The Besnard Lakes — The Besnard Lakes Are the Ghost Nation (Full Time Hobby)
• Black Eyes — Hostile Design (Dischord)
• Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe — Liminal (Verve)
• dust — Sky Is Falling (Kanine)
• Electric Guest — 10K (Independent Co.)
• Flock of Dimes — The Life You Save (Sub Pop)
• Forrest Day — Right On Time (Forrest Day’s Playground)
• The Grahams — The Bridge (Three Sirens Music Group)
• Greyhaven — Keep It Quiet (Solid State Records)
• Guitar — We’re Headed to the Lake (Julia’s War Recordings)
• HAAi — HUMANiSE (Mute)
• Jay Som — Belong (Lucky Number)
• Hannah Frances — Nested in Tangles (Fire Talk)
• Jay Worthy — Once Upon A Time Vol. 2 (GDF Records/EMPIRE)
• Jerskin Fendrix — Once Upon A Time… In Shropshire (untitled (recs))
• John 5 — Ghost (60 Cycle Hum Records)
• Khalid — After the Sun Goes Down (RCA Records)
• Madi Diaz — Fatal Optimist (Anti)
• Madison Cunningham — Ace (Verve)
• Mansionair — Some Kind of Alchemy (Sony Music)
• Mella — Or So I’ve Been Told… (Kill Iconic Records)
• The Necks — Disquiet (Northern Spy)
• Niia — V (Candid Records)
• NoSo — When Are You Leaving? (Partisan Records)
• Priscilla Block — Things You Didn’t See (UMG)
• Rhett Miller — A lifetime of riding by night (ATO)
• Robert Finley — Hallelujah! Don’t Let The Devil Fool Ya (Easy Eye Sound)
• Sanguisugabogg — Hideous Aftermath (Century Media Records)
• Silly Goose — Keys to the City EP (Blue Grape)
• SOHN — Albadas (Dawn Songs) (APM Records)
• Soul Blind — Red Sky Mourning (Closed Casket Activities)
• St. Paul & The Broken Bones — St. Paul & The Broken Bones (Oasis Pizza Records)
• The Telephone Numbers — Scarecrow II (Slumberland)
• Weakened Friends — Feels Like Hell (Don Giovanni Records)
• Wilby — Center of Affection (Harmonia Mundi Usa)

Friday, October 17

• All Time Low — Everyone’s Talking! (Basement Noise/Photo Finish Records)
• Anne Wilson — Stars (Capitol)
• Ashnikko — Smoochies (Parlophone)
• bar italia — Some Like It Hot (Matador)
• The Bats — Corner Coming Up (Flying Nun Records)
• Battle Beast — Steelbound (Nuclear Blast)
• Biohazard — Divided We Fall (BLKIIBLK)
• Brògeal — Tuesday Paper Club (PIAS)
• Carter Vail — Coydog EP (RCA Records)
• Casey Dienel — My Heart is an Outlaw (Jealous Butcher Records)
• Chicks on Speed — HEARTopia (Greenland)
• Chrissie Hynde & Pals — Duets Special (Parlophone)
• Cusp — What I Want Doesn’t Want Me Back (Exploding In Sound Records)
• Dear Boy — Celebrator (Last Gang Records)
• Good Luck — Big Dreams, Mister (Specialist Subject)
• Harmless — By Them, By You, By Me (Nettwerk)
• I, Jordan — Free Falling EP (Ninja Tune)
• The Last Dinner Party — From the Pyre (Island)
• Living Hour — Internal Drone Infinity (Keeled Scales)
• Mariel Buckley — Strange Trip Ahead (Birthday Cake Records)
• Militaire Gun — God Save the Gun (Loma Vista Recordings)
• Monkey on Mars — Monkey on Mars EP (Mrs Red Sound)
• Nathan Sykes — Ultraviolet (Nathan Sykes)
• Of Monsters and Men — All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade (Atlantic)
• PARTYOF2 — AMERIKA’S NEXT TOP PARTY! (Def Jam)
• Poliça — Dreams Go (Memphis Industries)
• Rachel Bobbitt — Swimming Towards the Sand (Fantasy Records)
• Ron Gallo — Checkmate (Kill Rock Stars)
• Ruel — Kicking My Feel (Recess Records)
• Ruen Brothers — Awooo (Yep Roc)
• Sam Ryder — Heartland (Artist Theory)
• Scorpions — From The First Sting (BMG)
• Skullcrusher — And Your Song is Like a Circle (Dirty Hit)
• Silvana Estrada — Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Altafonte)
• Soulwax — All Systems Are Lying (Because Music)
• The Subways — When I’m With You (Cooking Vinyl)
• Sudan Archives — The BPM (Stones Throw)
• Suzie True — How I Learned To Love What’s Gone (Get Better Records)
• Tame Impala — Deadbeat (Columbia)
• Todd Snider — HIGH, LONESOME AND THEN SOME. (Aimless Records)
• Ty Dolla Sign — Tycoon (Atlantic)
• Wicca Phase Springs Eternal — Mossy Oak Shadow (Run For Cover Records)
• William Prince — Further From the Country (Six Shooter Records)

Friday, October 24

• Alexander Stewart — What If? (Alexander Stewart)
• Alice Phoebe Lou — Oblivion (Nettwerk)
• Antibalas — Hourglass (Daptone)
• Bahamas — My Second Last Album (Republic)
• Begonia — Fantasy Life (Birthday Cake Records)
• Billy Currington — King Of The World (UMG)
• Brandi Carlile — Returning to Myself (Interscope Records/Lost Highway)
• Brainwasher — 39 Lightyears from Heaven (Mothland)
• Circa Waves — Death & Love ([PIAS])
• Courting — How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story (Lower Third)
• Cowboy Junkies — More Acoustic Junk (Cooking Vinyl)
• Crayon — Home Safe (Erased Tapes)
• Daniel Caesar — Son Of Spergy (Republic)
• Dayseeker — Creature In The Black Night (Spinefarm)
• Demi Lovato — It’s Not That Deep (Island Records)
• Dion — The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philosopher (KTBA Records)
• Eliza McLamb — Good Story (Royal Mountain Records)
• Erika Dohi — Myth of Tomorrow (Switch Hit Records)
• Flycatcher — Wrench (Memory Music)
• girlfriends — There Goes the Neighborhood (Big Noise)
• Hannah Jadagu — Describe (Sub Pop)
• Home Counties — Humdrum (Submarine Cat Records)
• iLe — Como las canto yo (La Buena Fortuna Music)
• Jesca Hoop — Selective Memory (Last Laugh)
• Jim Keller — End Of The World (Jim Keller Music)
• Jim White — Inner Day (Drag City)
• Joelton Mayfield — Crowd Pleaser (Bloodshot)
• Joshua Hedley — All Hat (New West Records)
• Joyer — On The Other End of the Line… (Julia’s War Recordings)
• Just Mustard — WE WERE JUST HERE (Partisan Records)
• The Lemonheads — Love Chant (Fire Records)
• Machine Girl — Psycho Warrior (MG Ultra X) (Future Classic)
• Major Stars — More Colors of Sound (Drag City)
• Mammoth — The End (BMG)
• Max Winter — Mourning Routine EP (Secret Friend)
• Natalie Jane — the world i didn’t want (Capitol)
• Nell Mescal — The Closest We’ll Get EP (Finmara Songs)
• Nitty Gritty Dirty Band — After Night EP (NGDB Records)
• Low Girl — Is It Too Late to Freak Out? (Low Girl)
• Roddy Ricch — The Navy Album (Atlantic)
• Ronnie Romero — Backbone (Frontiers Records s.r.l.)
• Serj Tankian — Covers, Collaborations & Collages (Serjical Strike Records)
• Sigrid — There’s Always More That I Could Say (Universal)
• Spiritual Cramp — RUDE (Blue Grape Music)
• The Strumbellas — Burning Bridges Into Dust EP (Glassnote)
• Tortoise — Touch (International Anthem)
• Yazmin Lacey — Teal Dreams (AMF)

Friday, October 31

• Anna von Hausswolff — ICONOCLASTS (YEAR0001)
• The Belair Lip Bombs — Again (Third Man Records)
• better joy — at dusk EP (Better Joy)
• The Charlatans — We Are Love (BMG)
• Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo — In the Earth Again (Computer Students/Modulor)
• Danheim — Heimferd (Season of Mist)
• Daniel Avery — Tremor (Domino)
• Eleni Drake — CHUCK (MNRK Records)
• Florence + The Machine — Everybody Scream (Universal)
• Greensky Bluegrass — XXV (Big Blue Zoo Records)
• Guided By Voices — Thick Rich And Delicious (GBV Inc)
• Holy Sons — Puritan Themes (Thrill Jockey)
• Howling Giant — Crucible & Ruin (Magnetic Eye Records)
• keiyaA — hooke’s law (XL Recordings)
• Lydia Luce — Mammoth (Tone Tree Music/Lydia Luce)
• Maps — Welcome To The Tudor Gate (Mute)
• Primitive Man — Observance (Relapse)
• Roger Eno — Without Wind/Without Air (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Saintseneca — Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs (Lame-O Records)
• Shad — Start Anew (Secret City)
• Trivium — Struck Dead EP (Roadrunner)
• Zach Hill and Lucas Abela — Bag of Max Bag of Cass (Warp)

To be a successful musician today, it’s essentially a requirement to have some sort of online presence. Ethel Cain is going through those motions, but she’s not a big internet fan. In fact, Cain says she’s “anti-internet.”

In a new Cosmopolitan interview, after sharing some of her thoughts about being online, Cain was asked point-blank if she’s anti-internet and she responded:

“I’m anti-internet. I think that the internet is a breeding ground for all of the worst parts of human nature. I think that the internet will be the death of society and human beings as a species. You can quote me on that when we’re all dead.”

That said, she’s a big Pinterest fan: “I love Pinterest. I’m on Pinterest right now. It’s like Tumblr, but I don’t have to talk to people. I have a lot of boards for weird sh*t. I just love to look at pictures.”

Elsewhere, she discussed some resurfaced posts of hers from years ago, saying, “The things from my past were hateful, and I was responsible for taking accountability no matter how they came to light. In my statement, I said, ‘I’m deeply ashamed and deeply regret that that was ever a part of my history.’ But it was strange addressing it because I have intimate knowledge of this campaign against me. While some of those screenshots were mine to bear the brunt of responsibility for, the people who leaked them were not leaking them with any kind of sense of justice in mind. They were leaked to hurt me.”

She added, “I admitted to saying racist remarks. I cannot think of something that didn’t come out of my mouth at that time, which is so embarrassing. It’s just a dark part of my life that I look back on. The fact that I would’ve said anything like that to impress my friends is probably the most embarrassing thing that I can imagine.”

Find the full interview here.

A quick note for this week’s episode of Sound Check: Yes, Jeremy is still the host. Mr. Hecht just looks a little different after losing his bet with Coco Jones and having to shave off his beard. We are all very sorry for his loss.

The guest this week is DJ Snake, the French DJ, record producer, and songwriter responsible for hits like “Turn Down for What” with Lil Jon, “Lean On” with Major Lazer, and “Taki Taki” with Selena Gomez, Ozuna and Cardi B. He’s also a versatile music head, so the Sound Check challenge takes him from Michael Jackson to Clipse, hitting a lot of stops between.

Here’s how it works: Jeremy plays two songs for the guest artist, who has to choose one and explain their choice, giving Jeremy a chance to learn their musical taste. Jeremy then has to guess the artist’s life anthem, the song they’d take to a desert island, which the guest wrote down earlier on a piece of paper. Our production team has also given him a decoy song, and Jeremy has to guess which is correct based on what he’s learned in the previous rounds.

Watch DJ Snake take on the Sound Check challenge above. New episodes of Sound Check drop every Wednesday at noon ET/9 a.m. PT on Uproxx’s YouTube.

Nine Inch Nails crushed it on the Peel It Back Tour this year. Good news: They’re doing it again next year. Today (October 1), the band announced a new run of North American tour dates for 2026, from February to March.

Tickets go on sale starting October 8 at noon local time via the band’s website. Boys Noize will support on all dates.

Uproxx’s Josh Kurp was at a recent NIN show and he wrote, “The immersive Peel It Back Tour is a triumph of sound, obviously, but also sight. It could have been a movie, and Nine Inch Nails were the stars.”

Check out the tour dates below.

Nine Inch Nails’ 2026 Tour Dates: Peel It Back Tour

02/05/2026 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center
02/07/2026 — Jacksonville, FL @ VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
02/10/2026 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
02/11/2026 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
02/13/2026 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
02/14/2026 — Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
02/16/2026 — Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
02/18/2026 — Hamilton, ON @ TD Coliseum
02/20/2026 — Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center
02/22/2026 — Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena
02/23/2026 — Milwaukee, WI @ Fiserv Forum
02/25/2026 — St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center
02/27/2026 — Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center
03/01/2026 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
03/03/2026 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
03/06/2026 — Glendale, AZ @ Desert Diamond Arena
03/07/2026 — Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena
03/09/2026 — San Diego, CA @ Pechanga Arena
03/10/2026 — Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center
03/13/2026 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Delta Center
03/15/2026 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
03/16/2026 — Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 Center

Nine Inch Nails’ Tron: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Tracklist

1. “Init”
2. “Forked Reality”
3. “As Alive As You Need Me To Be”
4. “Echoes”
5. “This Changes Everything”
6. “In The Image Of”
7. “I Know You Can Feel It”
8. “Permanence”
9. “Infiltrator”
10. “100% Expendable”
11. “Still Remains”
12. “Who Wants To Live Forever?”
13. “Building Better Worlds”
14. “Target Identified”
15. “Daemonize”
16. “Empathetic Response”
17. “What Have You Done?”
18. “A Question Of Trust”
19. “Ghost In The Machine”
20. “No Going Back”
21. “Nemesis”
22. “New Directive”
23. “Out In The World”
24. “Shadow Over Me”

Tron: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is out now via Interscope Records. Find more information here.

“Birds” might well be one of the many, many euphemisms for a certain white, powdered chemical substance that is a favorite subject of Virginia rap duo Clipse’s verses, but the meaning in their new album opener “Birds Don’t Sing” is a bit more literal. The song, which features John Legend and the Voices of Fire vocal group, deals with Malice and Pusha T’s relationships with their parents — and their mixed emotions in the wake of their parents passing.

In the first verse, Push writes a regretful letter to the brothers’ mom, rapping, “You even told Dad you wished y’all never splitted / See, you were checkin’ boxes, I was checkin’ my mentions / Sayin’ you was tired but not ready to go / Basically was dying without letting me know.” In the second verse, Malice echoes the sentiment, recounting his discovery of their father’s death not long after. “Your car was in the driveway, I knew you were home / By the third knock, a chill ran through my bones,” he recalls. “The way you missed Mama, I guess I should’ve known / Chivalry ain’t dead, you ain’t let her go alone.”

“Birds Don’t Sing” is the emotional standout of Clipse’s comeback album Let God Sort Em Out, but their first album in 15 years has plenty of highlights, including “Chains & Whips” with Kendrick Lamar, “So Be It,” and “P.O.V.” with Tyler The Creator.

You can watch the “Birds Don’t Sing” video above.

Let God Sort Em Out is out now via Roc Nation. Find more info here.

For years, there has been a lot of mythology and speculation about Lana Del Rey’s past. Most notable is the idea that she grew up wealthy despite presenting herself as having had humble beginnings. Also for years, Del Rey has tried to deny this and set the record straight. Now, she has done so again.

As Stereogum notes, in Instagram comments, Del Rey addressed a resurfaced interview from Ron Pope, a musician who performed with Del Rey some in the 2000s. Pope said Del Rey had a rich upbringing, but he has since said he “was given sh*tty intel” and apologized for “spreading that nonsense!”

Del Rey wrote in part:

“I don’t remember a Ron Pope, although I might if I saw him. The only people I still know from school are from home. And I wouldn’t say I grew up anywhere other than lake placid. Whoever he was I must’ve felt comfortable to tell him that I spent a lot of time with my grandmother and that I did live for a while in a trailer Alabama not Arkansas- as well as in North Bergen, New Jersey. I sold my life rights for ten thousand dollars to pay for that trailer. These rather backhanded complimentary tales tell a larger story of the energy that still overwhelms my story. Many of the people I had to go to school with will never know what it was like to do what I had to do or go where I had to go to feel safe. One thing I can say is that if we had grown up with money- I firmly believe I would not have put myself in the position to be in the spotlight. My difficulties lead me to one concept of how I could get out of the spot I was in. The only comfort I have in my deeply misunderstood trajectory is that it lead me to Jeremy and allowed me to stay near to my siblings.”

Find more from Del Rey’s comments here.

Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber have a history of working together, most notably on their hit 2019 joint single “I Don’t Care.” (Sheeran also co-wrote Bieber’s 2015 No. 1 single “Love Yourself.”) They tried to get another track going, too, but it ended up appearing as a Sheeran solo song, “Camera” from his new album Play. There is a version of the song with Bieber floating around, though.

In a recent interview on SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up, Sheeran said, “I wrote it for = and then it ended up being a duet with Justin Bieber for Justice, and then it never materialized. I’ve got a version with Justin on it that’s… it’s pretty cool, but it just exists in the ether, and yeah, now it’s out. I think people like it.”

He then said of the song:

“I think the song ‘Camera’ itself is, like, most of the best moments of my life were never caught on camera, and there is something nice about how your mind remembers stuff. I always think this when I look at my kids: When I was 11, I remember playing my first show and thinking that I was rocking out to 40,000 people and it was amazing. Had someone filmed that on a camera phone, takes the magic away, because it’s actually, like, that’s the real life and actually, it wasn’t that good and it was to 20 people in this hall and blah, blah, blah, but I think sometimes when things aren’t caught on camera… Like, I remember my proposal to my wife in a very specific way. It might have actually been completely different if someone had filmed it. I do think that cameras and videoing things sometimes take the magic away.”

Check out clips from the interview above and below.

Play is out now via Gingerbread Man Records/Atlantic Records. Find more information here.

I’ve written a bunch about the crossovers between hip-hop and comics books, from Stan Lee’s influence on rap to the comics lines created by stars like Lisa and Metro Boomin.

At New York Comic Con next week, Marvel and Mass Appeal will carry on that tradition (heh), with Legend Has It…, a new comics series inspired by Mass Appeal’s ongoing album initiative starring rap icons such as Big L, De La Soul, Ghostface Killah, Mobb Deep, Nas, Raekwon, and Slick Rick. Written by Brandon Thomas and illustrated by Sanford Greene, the series will be formally launched on October 10 at NYCC, with issue #1 available at Whatnot’s live shopping stage, Whatnot House, from 5:30–7:00 PM ET, with an exclusive variant cover following the “Comics and Hip-Hop: A Marvel x Mass Appeal Conversation” panel.

There might be no better partner to explore the intersections between rap and comics than Marvel, as the publisher already has a rich history of working with rap titans through its 2015 variant covers turning books starring the likes of Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, and ThorMidnight Marauders, 50 Cent’s Get Rich Or Die Trying, ASAP Rocky’s Long.Live.A$AP, and MF Doom and Madlib’s Madvillainy.

In a press release, Mass Appeal’s founder Nas said, “Working with Marvel on this comic is a celebration of Hip Hop and its legacy. There’s a story we tell through our music, and watching that energy come to life in these pages is a tribute to the culture that shaped us and continues to inspire generations.”

With his Forever Yung Tour kicking off this week, Swedish rapper Yung Lean has revealed his tour openers. According to a press release, he’s bringing a quartet of artists along with him that includes Niontay, Xaviersobased, Taxidermists, and ear.

ear is an elusive duo of electronic producers who will play dates in Canada. Meanwhile, rappers Niontay and Xaviersobased, both from the US, will trade off dates on the first half of the tour. Meanwhile, the final three US dates will feature Massachusetts-based rock duo Taxidermists. You’ll be able to see details below.

After completing the tour, Yung Lean is set to perform alongside Psykos collaborator Bladee to start 2026, and it looks like they could be positioning themselves for a follow-up, as well.

Yung Lean Forever Yung Tour Dates

10/4 – Detroit, MI @ Russell Industrial Center*
10/7 – Chicago, IL @ Fairgrounds at Salt Shed*
10/9 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium^
10/11 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater^
10/12 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium^
10/15 – Brooklyn, NY @ The Brooklyn Mirage^
10/16 – Boston, MA @ Citizens House of Blues Boston+
10/18 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia+
10/19 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem+
10/20 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY~
10/21 – Montreal, QB @ MTELUS~
11/09 – Prague, CZ @ Forum Karlin
11/10 – Vienna, AT @ Gasometer
11/12 – Berlin, DE @ Uber Eats Music Hall
11/13 – Warsaw, PL @ COS Torwar Hall
11/15 – Milan, IT @ Fabrique Milano
11/17 – Barcelona, ES @ Hivernacle
11/19 – Tilburg, NL @ 013 Poppodium
11/20 – Offenbach am Main, DE @ Stadthalle Offenbach
11/22 – London, UK @ OVO Arena Wembley
11/24 – Paris, FR @ Zénith Paris – La Villette
11/26 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Victoria Warehouse Manchester

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