Random music news for Friday, August 8, 2025

So is 3I/ATLAS natural or not? It’s definitely not a comet. An asteroid? A Rendezvous with Rama interstellar ship? I suppose we’ll find out soon enough. No waiting or music news for August 8, 2025.

1. “What we’re seeing now is the failure of new music.” Discuss.
2. This has been the summer of rock and resistance: How the situation in Gaza has affected music.
3. Is Spotify going to label AI-generated music? (My take: It had better.)
4. Humanable is a site that promises to “preserve human creatitivy in music.”
5. Meanwhile, Chat GPT-5 is here. The big feature? Fewer hallucinations.
6. Why do so many people hate Creed? Let’s ask statistics!
7. Arctic Monkeys have launched their own record label.
8. JP Saxe has had to cancel his North American tour after social media appeals to fans to buy tickets didn’t work.
9. So is Beyonce going to record a rock album? Apparently.
10. Here come the Ozzy documentaries. First out of the gate: The BBC.
11. What are the odds of the NFL hiring a rock band to play the halftime show at the Super Bowl next year? Not real good, actually.
12. There’s a new literary trbute to Sinead O’Connor.
13. This guy is on a mission to save 20,000 tapes of underground music for everyone for all time.
14. I love the cover for the new Spinal Tap album–and you will, too.
15. Need a new “RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES” song for today? Here go you. IVia Rick J

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