Random music news for Friday, December 24, 2021
It may be Christmas Eve, but there’s still music news being made.
- Mark Lanegan tells the horror of being infected with COVID-19. Not vaxxed? Read this.
- How does Spotify Unwrapped work? Like this.
- I had no idea that the MegaUpload case was still dragging on.
- How about a Mariah Carey Christmas pun? Here you go. (Via Tom)
- Imagine finding any one of these toys under the Christmas tree.
- Fake, fake, fake.
- Too soon?
- You gotta admire the musical tastes of Chile’s new 35-year-old president.
- Need some heavy Christmas music? Check out this playlist.
- So that’s where the “I want my MTV” lyric came from.
- These are the 21 biggest rock acts that haven’t toured since COVID hit.
- REM’s Peter Buck tells the story of the time a Finnish biker game stole his favourite guitar.
- Before there was Mariah Carey and “All I Want for Christmas is You,” there was Slade and “Merry Xmas Everybody.“
- And finally, here is a playlist of 17,000 holiday songs. That’s more than five weeks of uninterrupted listening.
BONUS: Modern devices that we really don’t use anymore.
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