Random music news for Friday, August 30, 2019
Labour Day weekend already? Jeebus. It feels like we were just talking about May 2-4. Here’s what I’ve got for music news for August 30, 2019.
- This is a fantastic article detailing the earliest days of Weezer
- Does Tool earn more in streaming revenue for the 10-minute-and-22 second “Fear Inoculum” than Lil Nas X’s 1-minute-and-57 second “Old Town Road?” Here’s the answer.
- A cool look at Pachyderm Studios where Nirvana recorded In Utero.
- Here’s the latest installment of Often Forgotten Canadian Hard Rock and Metal Bands: Lee Aaron.
- Two large unauthorized US streaming services have been busted.
- Had Woodstock 50 been pulled off, it might have looked like this.
- Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, The 1975 and more have signed a petition in support of Planned Parenthood.
- The “Spotify for News” did not work. This might.
- Here is a very good idea that could reduce trash and waste at music festivals.
- Confused about how the album charts work these days? This should explain the current methodology.
- The story of political hip-hop.
- Oasis: The musical? Noel says it’s just a matter of time.
- The night Lars Ulrich of Metallica went AWOL.
- Are midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in trouble? Perhaps–and for a very strange reason.
- Well, this is a nice neighbourhood.
- This is a different sort of photographic exhibition involving musicians.