Random music news for Friday, April 3, 2020
Stay inside. Take it from Samuel L. Jackson.
And now, music news for Friday, April 3, 2020.
- Coronavirus update 1: This was an April Fool’s story, but knowing Dave Grohl, you kinda wanted to believe it. (Via Tom)
- Coronavirus update 2: Singer-songwriter John Prine seems to be recovering from COVID-19.
- Coronavirus update 3: Sony has launched a fund worth US$100 million to help the entertainment industry.
- Coronavirus update 4: Here’s another look at how COVID-19 has affected the concert industry.
- Coronavirus update 5: This nice: Taylor Swift is helping a famous Nashville indie record store during this crisis.
- Coronavirus update 6: Justin Bieber has canceled 2020. (Well, not quite, but it’ll seem that way for his fans.)
- Coronavirus update 7: Dolly Parton is donating US$1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center to help fund vaccine research.
- Coronavirus update 8: Soft 103.8/Kelowna is expected to stop broadcasting today, bankrupted by a soft advertising market caused by COVID-19.
- Coronavirus update 10: Here’s a list of celebrities who have died from the disease so far.
- Flavor Flav says that the Public Enemy hoax is a hoax. (I can’t keep all this straight, either.)
- Jules Hollands is offering boogie-woogie piano lessons online.
- Stressed? These are the top meditation apps in the US.
- This looks like a great podcast: The Sound of the Hound talks about the history of the music business.
- Elon Musk, DJ. (Another one from Tom)
- Cardi B is working hard to be the Queen of Quarantine. See?
- Okay. I laughed. And at this, too.
- Would you pay this much of an example of Kanye’s high school artwork?
- This turntable allows you to cut your own 7-inch singles.
- Goddammit. Kerrang is suspending operations until July–but only the magazine, not online.
