Random music news for Friday, August 1, 2025
Next week’s episode of South Park will, in fact, feature more appearances by Donald Trump. And Mr. Mackie gets a job with ICE. Moving on to music news for August 1, 2025.
- RIP Jock McDonald, frontman for iconic cult punk band, The Bollock Brothers. It was a freak swimming pool accident.
- Diddy has filed for bail again. His lawyers say, “If released on these conditions, Sean Combs will not be violent to anyone.”
- Be it resolved that nu metal and metalcore are now both official in the realm of dad music. Change my mind.
- What city is the number three live music market in the world? It’s probably not the city you’re thinking about.
- If you’re a fan of the history of radio, then check out this amazing site: The Radio Historian.
- If you’re a fan of The Grateful Dead and play guitar, then you’ll be interested in these new models.
- If you’re a musician looking to get paid, you might want to look into the problem of duplicate data. That could be slowing things down.
- Then there’s the case of Canadian JP Saxe. It’s rough out there.
- How frustrating is it to try to make a living as a musician these days? Here’s another look at that.
- Imagine playing this guitar onstage. I’d be too nervous to pick it up. (Via David)
- Donald Trump isn’t going to like this version of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
- Chappell Roan seems to have a thing for Saskatchewan. (Via Taron)
- Yeah, Las Vegas has The Sphere. But have you heard of the freakin’ Holosphere?
- Still hoping for another System of a Down album? I wouldn’t hold your breath.
- Gawd, more AI slop. This time, it hurt Tyler, the Creator.
