Random music news for Friday, January 27, 2023
Evil chess-playing cats. Now that you’re apprised of that, here’s music news for January 27, 2023.
- Ryan Dahle of Limblifter had successful heart valve replacement surgery at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. He should be as good as new in a few months. (Via Johnny)
- The BBC has this take on how buying concert tickets could be made better.
- On that note, here’s more on Ticketmaster’s current woes.
- Fall Out Boy kidnapped Rivers Cuomo. (Relax. It’s just a music video.)
- The Foo Fighters have added another festival date. Still no word on a drummer.
- I was on KNX radio in LA talking about Justin Bieber’s catalogue sale. Here’s audio from the interview.
- Marilyn Manson has settled one of his sexual assault charges.
- Assault charges filed against Tool drummer Danny Carey have been dismissed.
- Speaking of Tool and beating people up, you can now have Maynard James Keenan teach you Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
- Meat Loaf’s band has fixed a 44-year-old problem.
- RIP Anthony “Top” Topham, guitarist for The Yardbirds.
- Is this the world’s greatest home stereo system? It might be. (Via Rick J)
- TikTok can be the musician’s friend. Here are some examples.
- The big MSG Sphere project has hit some snags. U2’s residency may have to wait.
- This law firm seems to be stuck with Kanye for now.
- No thanks.
BONUS: If you don’t have enough to worry about this weekend, how about a doomsday asteroid swarm?
