BRIT Award winner Dave has returned to announce his long-awaited third studio album, The Boy Who Played The Harp. Due on October 24, the album be his first full-length release since his 2021 album We’re All Alone in This Together. Since then, he’s proven to be an in-demand collaborator, appearing on albums from Burna Boy last year, and “Sprinter” collaborator Central Cee earlier this year. He also teamed up with Central Cee in 2023 for the Split Decision EP. That effort was followed the same year by “Stop Giving Me Advice” with Jack Harlow and Lyrical Lemonade.
Dave
Outside of music, Dave has spent the past two years building out his philanthropic, filmographic, and athletic portfolios, donating money to families affected by conflict in Congo, Palestine, and Sudan, walking in Louis Vuitton’s 2023 Paris Fashion Week show, and managing Santan FC, one of the 12 teams in Baller League UK. Just picture something like BIG3, but for soccer (football), with six players on each team.
Dave’s first two albums both debuted at No.1 on the UK albums charts and broke all sorts of records, so it’s be interesting to see the response to his new album later this month.
The Boy Who Played The Harp is out on 10/24 via Capitol Records. You can find more info here.
Artemas had a viral smash last year with “I Like The Way You Kiss Me,” which peaked just outside the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and has over 1.3 billion streams on Spotify alone. Since then, he has released a number of singles and the Yustyna, and the train keeps on rolling: Today (October 1), Artemas announced Lovercore, a new mixtape.
Arriving alongside the news is three new songs: “Superstar,” “Take It Easy On Me,” and “This One’s Gonna Hurt Me.” The first song got a video, too, and the tune is a techno-inspired anthem.
In a recent interview, Artemas spoke about making his first album, saying, “It’s daunting to create something that cohesive, but it excites me, too. I want to put my flag in the sand. I think I’m making some of the most exciting alt-pop music out there. And I do it all myself. I just haven’t communicated that clearly enough yet.” He also said of the success of “I Like The Way You Kiss Me,” “It would be the death of me to chase that again. Those songs are so random. You just have to stay honest.”
Of the modern music industry path, he added, “I just turned my nose up at it all. I made music in my room, mixed it myself, didn’t care about playlists. It was about finding my fans.”
Listen to the new songs above and below.
Lovercore is out 10/24 via Artemas. Find more information here.
In 2025, the old rock-and-roll blueprint – empty bottles, late-nights, hellish hangovers, and barely-remembered shows – is getting a sobering remix, and it comes courtesy of some of the biggest names in music. Everyone from Miley Cyrus, Florence Welch, Tyler, the Creator and more are quietly rewriting the industry’s touring lifestyle, trading it for cleaner, more intentional routines on the road – think sober-friendly studio sessions and pre-show rituals designed around mental health and stamina.The goal isn’t restriction, it’s sustainability — figuring out how to stay healthy, inspired, and energized when the schedule doesn’t slow down. It’s a survival strategy, really. With festival appearances, arena dates, and nonstop concert stops packed into every year, musicians simply don’t have as much time to be battling the post-party fog anymore.
But that shift in backstage behavior isn’t happening in a vaccuum; audiences are taking a more mindful approach to drinking, too. A large percentage of Millennials and Gen Z are being more selective when it comes to alcohol intake, opting for quality over quantity with most citing mental health benefits as the biggest reason why. And whether they’re being influenced by the artists they love (or vice-versa) the results on the ground are the same: alcohol-free festival activations, wellness-minded brand collabs, and on-tour initiatives that make mindful living part of the new concert experience.
It all ties into a wider movement that’s been gaining traction recently — a more flexible approach to drinking that emphasizes choice over habit. The term “sober curious” was coined in 2018 by author Ruby Warrington to describe a mindset that questions alcohol consumption without demanding full abstinence. Since then, it’s snowballed, especially among post-pandemic Millennials and Gen Zers, who are rethinking the old social script that always equates partying with heavy drinking. This isn’t about giving up on fun, it’s about swapping hangovers for better focus and hazily remembered late nights for real connection. Social media has supercharged the trend, turning mocktails, dry-festival activations, and wellness rituals into cultural currency. But while fans scroll through recipe TikToks and Instagram feeds filled with glossy visuals of influencers at yoga retreats, artists are incorporating the movement into their work-life balance.
Some of music’s biggest names have been surprisingly frank about how dialing back alcohol helps their work. Cyrus, sober since 2019, has dubbed abstinence a grounding “medicine,” noting that the nonstop touring schedule can make staying clean complicated. In place of alcohol, she resets through more holisitc practices – meditation, regular exercise, and gardening are her go-tos. And she limits her touring schedules, preventing vocal burnout by prioritizing her physical health. For Welch, sobriety was more of a creative lifeline, crediting it with giving her more artistic freedom, saying, “I’m so much more in tune with what I want, what I like and what I want to make.”
Tyler, the Creator is an artist who has never really bought into the hard partying-rapper stereotype either. “I’ve never been drunk in my life,” he told Vice, explaining that booze and blunts feel more like distractions in the studio booth than fuel. Hip-hop peer Kendrick Lamar feels the same. “Everybody’s fun is different. Mine is not drinking,” he once told Rolling Stone, explaining he only drinks casually, if at all. That restraint lines up with the way he’s long centered mental health in his work. From high-profile headliners like Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey, Kid Cudi, Logic, Jack Harlow, Calvin Harris, Coldplay, and Eminem to indie voices such as Bartees Strange, Waxahatchee, and Julien Baker, selective sobriety has emerged as a deliberate tool – an instrument artists are wielding to sharpen focus and elevate both creative output and performance.
For many musicians, “sober-curious” is less a mandate and more a flexible playbook for better habits. Functional routines are replacing backstage chaos, helping artists stay energized, sleep better, manage anxiety, and recover quickly. Stars like Rosalía juice, supplement, and train doggedly to sustain stamina during marathon shows. Phoebe Bridgers relies on yoga and EMDR therapy. Chance the Rapper incorporates spiritual practices to stay centered and avoid anxiety, and Billie Eilish credits light exercise, plant-based meals, and intentional downtime for maintaining her concert-ready energy.
Others bring adaptogenic tonics, mushroom coffees, CBD-infused topicals, vitamin stacks, and functional mocktails in their backstage kits. Some artists hire tour nutritionists or on-call herbalists, structuring meals, supplements, and sleep schedules with military-like precision. When you consider the grueling schedules, long flights, and back-to-back performances, touring musicians are basically athletes – it makes sense they’d gravitate towards rest, nutrition, mental focus, and vocal care as a part of the playbook.
Ditching the chaos doesn’t make shows boring — it makes them better, more inclusive, and worth remembering. The effect isn’t just on stage either. Non-alcoholic drinks, on-call wellness experts, and artist-led support programs are creating a new touring ecosystem. When performers embrace sustainable routines, venues and festivals follow, and fans pick up the habits too. Not every artist goes fully dry, but then again, that’s not really the point. The point is choice: everyone’s finding ways to protect their bodies, stay mentally present, and fully enjoy the ride.
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?
Cardi B
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.
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.”
Yusuf/Cat Stevens — On The Road To Findout: Greatest Hits
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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.
Vince Guaraldi Trio — A Charlie Brown Christmas (Reissue)
Craft Recordings
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.
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.
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.
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.
David Bowie — I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016)
Parlophone
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.
The Monkees — Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd (Reissue)
Rhino
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.
My Morning Jacket — Z 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
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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.
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)
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.”
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.”
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