Random music news for Friday, July 26, 2019
Happy 76th birthday, Mick Jagger! In other music news for July 26, 2019…
- John Fogerty is the first artist to publicly pull out of Woodstock 50. Smart.
- Ozzy, the biopic. This could be good.
- U2 and Elton John, together at last.
- Here’s a good story about the early years of The White Stripes.
- Analysts are split over the future of Spotify.
- They should look at how Spotify is catching up to Apple when it comes to providing podcasts.
- What’s coming after streaming? Maybe this.
- Sometimes the best songs are spoken.
- Question: How long does it take to make a classic album?
- Here’s an interpretation of George Thorogood’s “Bad to the Bone” you may have never considered. Weird, but…
- Prince apparently wasn’t much of a Flaming Lips fan. See?
- George Michael’s former lover is very, very angry about being left out of George’s will. He even got himself arrested over it.
- How many bands are using backing tracks in live performance? Too many according to these musicians.
- Ed Sheeran has a new pub that he named after his wife.
- What is the future of physical music formats? Probably not so good.
- Streaming has pretty much killed the greatest hits CD. Yet they’re still being made. Why?
- Kid Rock just sold this house.
- The latest installment of Often Forgotten Canadian Hard Rock and Metal Bands looks at Mushroom Trail.
- Thieves broke into a Toronto school and stole a bunch of instruments from kids. Bastards.
- No. Just no. (Via Tom)
- Remember the file-sharing program Audio Galaxy? It was one of the better illegal programs. Here’s its story.
