Random music news for Friday, February 7, 2025
What is the happiest time of day? Let’s ask science! Let’s now try some music news for February 7, 2025.
- RIP Irv Gotti, producer and founder of Murder Inc. He was 54. It appears to have been the result of a stroke.
- Flogging Molly has canceled their 2025 tour because frontman Dave King is very ill.
- It’s Black History Month. There’s a great new series about Black music in Canada called Sounds Black.
- It’s intersting how the price of concert tickets varies from city to city in Canada.
- Let’s look at the list of companies in the running to buy TikTok’s American operations.
- What’s this new TikTok licensing platform?
- Fran Healy of Travis had to be carried offstage on a stretcher when he injured an ankle during a show.
- Chris Martin will appear at the 2025 Invictus Games in Vancouver. His gig will be Saturday at BC Place along with Katy Perry, Noah Cahan, and Nelly Furtado.
- “Stop calling it a ‘world tour,’ you liars!” Discuss.
- A Fox streaming service? Maybe this year.
- Are songs hitting a billion streams faster than ever? Let’s examine that.
- Bob Marley would have turned 80 this year. A 12-month celebration of Bob has kicked off.
- Why are French Canadians listening to fewer podcasts? Let’s take a look.
- Testy Elton. He had a really bad day in the studio.
- Occult Elvis. It is said he was telepathic, could control the weather and heal the sick. No, really.
BONUS: Got kids? You might appreciate this glossary of some of the words they’re using. Skibidi, you gigachats! Did I get that right?
