Random music news for Friday, July 24, 2020
Here’s a gift for making it through another week. WARNING: It’s so sweet that it’ll make your blood sugar spike. Worth it, though. Once you’re done, proceed to music news for July 24, 2020.
- Coronavirus update 1: Here’s a massive spreadsheet with data on how COVID-19 has affected the music industry.
- Coronavirus update 2: Two more Canadian venues are permanently closing because of the pandemic: Toronto’s N’Awlins Jazz Bar & Grill and the Starlight Social Club in Waterloo.
- Coronavirus update 3: And here’s a farewell to Hamilton’s This Ain’t Hollywood.
- Last night, Jesse Reyez won the 2020 Prism Music Prize for the best Canadian music video of the year.
- Some people are calling today’s surprise Taylor Swift album Folklore “alternative.” Uh, no. But it does have a lot of swear words.
- And Tay-Tay won another–the fourth–plagiarism suit against “Shake It Off.”
- The Weeknd won a plagiarism suit, too.
- These artists have changed their racially insensitive names.
- This indie record label is shutting down completely after a ton of #MeToo allegations.
- FOUR internets? Yes.
- There’s a new Dolly Parton-inspired rooftop bar in Nashville. It’s as OTT as you’d expect.
- Prince Andrew’s secret service detail apparently didn’t like New Order much.
- Nick Nurse, head coach of the Toronto Raptors, gifted a Mississauga music teacher with $25,000 to buy new instruments. The Arkells were part of this, too.
- This is fun: Songs from the 90s that are now larger than life.
- Jarvis Cocker is working on his memoir.
- And here’s how Liam Gallagher is living these days.
