Random music news for Friday, April 30, 2021
She smuggled a gun into jail HOW? Oh. Sorry for the mental image. Distract yourself with music news for April 30, 2021.
- Canadian radio listening has been steady (and even going up) during the pandemic. Here are the latest figures.
- Florence Welch has a new project: scoring a Great Gatsby musical.
- Will people pay for podcasts? Apple and Spotify are banking on that. But will it work?
- Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will release a greatest hits album on June 10. That’ll mark the band’s 10th anniversary.
- This woman has set a world record for the lowest note sung by a female (C1, the lowest C on the piano, which is at 34.21 hertz.)
- Rapper Kodiak Black has pleaded guilty to assault charges. Remember that he was pardoned by Donald Trump on weapons charges. (Via Sean)
- This is interesting: The “sachetization” of music.
- Into songwriting? Into tech? Into AI? Then the AI Song Contest might be for you.
- Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says he’s “secured the funds” to make a bid for Arsenal of the EPL.
- And here comes the Genesis tour. (Sean again)
- Apparently, you can identify a creator of a playlist by looking at just three songs.
- What, exactly, does a music publicist do? This.
- There’s a new documentary on the history of the DC punk rock scene. Dave Grohl will love it.
- These bands are all fronted by animals.
- Wanna buy a sweaty (and rather ugly) satin jacket once owned by Keith Richards? It’ll cost you.
- How about going to a rave in the Chernobyl exclusion zone? No need to bring glowsticks, I guess…