Random music news for Friday, August 23, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes is modifying its rating system away from “Certified Fresh.” That might help you selecting something to watch over the weekend. Music news for August 23, 2024, might help with something, too.
- Bruce Foxton, ex bass player with The Jam and currently touring with From the Jam, had to be rushed to hospital for an “immediate procedure.” (Via Christopher)
- Beyonce 1, Trump 0.
- This is worrisome: A new study says that AI could risk up to 23% of music creators’ earnings in three years.
- Are these the most annoyingly catchy songs of all time?
- Love K-pop? There’s a new game where you can build your own K-pop act.
- X/Twitter’s revenues continue to be in freefall. Nice one, Elon.
- Apple Music has a plan to record some spatial audio DJ sets. That should sound cool.
- A de-aged Fred Durst is going to play himself in a horror movie.
- Thirty Seconds to Mars shows how you can sell millions of records and still end up in debt.
- Taylor Swift set another record with the last day of the European part of her Eras tour.
- The Reading and Leeds Festivals will have a stage devoted to…podcasts? Yes.
- A venue where The Beatles used to play back in the day has been turned into an Airbnb.
- Want to live in The Dakota in a unit next to one where John and Yoko used to live? It’s for sale.
- A Chik-fil-A TV streaming service? Maybe.
- It’s still just August, but TikTok has released its Songs of the Summer list.
BONUS: Very funny, German Navy.
