Random music news for Friday, June 1, 2018
Five months down, seven to go. Here’s music news for June 1, 2018.
- Advance tickets for Coachella 2019 go on sale today.
- Spotify now wishes that they had rolled out their “hateful content” policy a little more carefully.
- Here’s a study of contextual playlists on Spotify. WARNING: Statistics ahead!
- Meanwhile, Apple Music has launched a new global division to look after songwriters and publishers.
- Here are five things to watch for in the world of music streaming.
- Remember those NIN shows where fans had to stand in line to get physical tickets? How did that go? Here’s a report.
- Liam Gallagher’s son is the new face of Saint Laurent menswear.
- Got a premature baby? Sing. It’ll help.
- The apartment downstairs from Bowie’s old NYC penthouse is for rent. Just $28,000 USD/month.
- Want to see Kendrick Lamar accept his Pulitzer Prize? Go here.
- It seems that organized crime has found ways to smuggle drugs into Australian music festivals…
- …which is all the more reason we need a proper pill-testing procedure.
- Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion and Epitaph records is going to get a lifetime achievement award.
- Your spinning class could be bad for you–and not in ways you might think.
- Gen Z is moving away from Facebook. Zuck should be worried.
- The George Michael shrine has been cleared.
- This Swedish orchestra turns homophobic hate mail into music.
- After lots and lots of criticism, the head of the Grammys has announced that he will leave at the end of 2019.
