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Random music news for Friday, July 12, 2024

Can AI help us translate dog barks? Possibly. Do I have music news from July 12, 2024? Absolutely.

  1. A breach involving TEN BILLION passwords? Great. Just great.
  2. If you’ve been following the news of the Ticketmaster data breach, there’s a new report on what happened with Snowflake, their cloud provider. Here is the investigative report.
  3. Billy McFarland, the convicted Fyre Festival scammer, is working with Donald Trump because of course.
  4. Speaking of fraud, a new estimate says that streaming fraud costs the music industry US$2 billion a year.
  5. Is music getting worse? Or is it a manner of genre getting worse? Discuss.
  6. This is AI voice clone is so real that it’s “dangerous.” Again, great. Just great.
  7. TikTok’s new AI chatbot is interesting.
  8. Shazam and Ticketmaster have teamed up in an interesting and possibly useful way.
  9. The Rolling Stones are looking for a “life-giving stranger” after a show in Boston.
  10. Noel Gallagher: Still pissed at Dave Grohl
  11. This Bob Dylan set is one of the biggest box sets I’ve seen in a long time.
  12. Stevie Nick, the Barbie doll.
  13. It’s cool to see a radio station celebrate 100 years of broadcasting–like this one.
  14. Here’s a list of every iconic concert for every year since 1960.
  15. And this is fascinating: A statistical analysis of how music has changed since the 1950s. (Via Peter)

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BONUS: A little moshing, anyone?

Alan Cross

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One thought on “Random music news for Friday, July 12, 2024

  • AI to translate a dog’s bark? This just in from the Westie Boyz: “Hey Dad, don’t worry ’bout what we say – watch our tails and ears! That’ll tell you everything U need to know. Now, where are the treats?

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