Random music news for Friday, June 9, 2023
The biggest announcement from Apple this week? Auto-Correct will no longer default to “ducking.” About ducking time. Moving to some ducking music news for June 9, 2023…
- The US State Department is the latest organization to call out Roger Waters as antisemitic.
- Noel has challenged Liam to call him to talk about an Oasis reunion…
- …and then Liam responded.
- Mike Ness of Social Distortion has been diagnosed with tonsil cancer.
- Is Taylor Swift going to mess with the NBA playoffs? (Via Rick J)
- Need to keep your drinks cold this summer? There’s now a Slayer cooler.
- France-based Deezer has a strategy to identify and label “illegal and fraudulent” AI musical content.
- Reddit is laying off about 5% of its workforce.
- Are you an artist having a hard time making sure your royalties (a complex thing) are coming in? Take a look at this company.
- Here are the new features of iOS 17 that Apple didn’t make a big deal about this week. Some are related to music.
- A bit inside baseball, but interesting: The complex history of digital rights management (DRM).
- Spotify has predictions for the Song of the Summer of 2023.
- Here’s another look ahead at the next edition of Apple CarPlay.
- Yes, it’s very possible that Queen’s catalogue may sell for north of US$1 billion.
- Jared? You okay?
- The Rolling Stones are now offering an iced coffee kit. You read that right.
