Random music news for Friday, April 23, 2021
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- RIP Les McKeowan of 70s boy band The Bay City Rollers.
- RIP Shock G of Digital Underground.
- Iced Earth guitarist (and US Capitol rioter) Jon Schaffer is out of jail and cooperating with authorities.
- Has Osheaga been canceled for 2021? It looks like it.
- Radio is dead? Hardly. See?
- Would you like any of these bands to reunite?
- Music supervisors deserve more love. Here’s why.
- If you’re a John Lennon fan, you’ll need to take a look at this.
- Amidst COVID, the BRITS are going to take place in front of 4,000 live fans. It’s research!
- Meanwhile, Bonnaroo, set for September, has sold out…
- …but Wil Butler of Arcade Fire says he’s not ready to perform live yet.
- This is how TikTok is changing the face of guitar music.
- And TikTok is helping to drain teens away from Instagram.
- Well, that’s one way to recycle an old obsolete New Order song.
- That’s one dark tattoo, dude.
- Rammstein–in Russian.
- Universal Music Group released their Q1 results. It brought in US$1 million per hour.
- Not happy with your Canadian wireless service? You’re not alone.
- A new book on The Fall is coming.
