Random Music News for August 11, 2014
This is the start of Elvis Week in Memphis. Details here.
- There’s a new book on the making of David Bowie’s Hunky Dory album.
- Here’s an interesting feature on thirty years of hip hop advertising.
- We found Lewis. He’s okay. (Here’s the full back story on this weird search.)
- Why are music industry jobs getting trounced by tech? Is it because the music biz has lost all its glamour?
- Black Sheep Records has launched a project designed to help indie artists become familiar with the business end of the music business. Everyone could benefit from something like this. Give it a look.
- Morrissey has been dropped by another record label. That didn’t take long, did it? And even with a critically-lauded album, too.
- Michael Jackson’s maids reveal that the King of Pop was disgusting.
- Kings of Leon’s Nathan Followill was injured in tour bus. The driver had to hit the breaks when a fan got in the way. Nathan fell over and broke a couple of ribs.
- ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons tries his hand at EDM with David Guetta. Wait–what? (Via Tom.)
- Heard of that Calgary radio station that plays nothing but songs edited down to their essence? Jann Arden hates it and wants nothing to do with it.