Random music news for Friday, August 16, 2024
Spare a prayer for Danny Tesler. The man who invented cut/copy/paste has died at the age of 74. Now for some music news for August 16, 2024.
- How’s this for a rumour? Taylor Swift finishes her Wembley Stadium run on Tuesday. Democratic National Convention starts in Chicago Monday. Might she drop in?
- The Sex Pistols are playing live again but without Johnny Rotten.
- Jack White dropped his NO NAME album without warning. He says he might do the same thing for dates on the NO NAME tour.
- This song broke the record for the most-Shazamed song in a single day when it was featured during the closing ceremonies of the Paris Olympics.
- A new study shows that music can be used to locate ageing areas of the brain.
- New Oasis material? Yes! Is it any good? Well…
- And speaking of them, Noel Gallagher’s Definitely Maybe guitar is going up for auction.
- Crisis in K-pop land. Suga of BTS might end up in prison over a DUI.
- When Jeff Beck died of meningitis, he left £28 million to his wife.
- New/old Lou Reed is going to be released in an new anthology.
- Apple is going to take a 30% of certain Patreon subscriptions. Cue the outrage.
- Know a teen into music? Then tell them about Canada’s Teen Jam which is coming to Toronto in October.
- SoundCloud now has a store.
- Is Tool working on new material right now? It sure looks like it.
- Not music releated, but the house where they filmed Poltergeist is up for sale. Anyone interested? (Via Dave)
BONUS: How about a jazz version of “Heart-Shaped Box?” (Via Rick J)
Shouldn’t there be outrage over the Patreon thing? Apple is providing no additional value to what we’ve all been enjoying for years, and can enjoy if we just sign up through the website (or the Android app) instead of in the iOS app.