Random music news for Friday, March 5, 2021
SpaceX Starship go BOOM! Now some not-quite-as-explosive music news for March 5, 2021.
- Ian Brown of the Stone Roses is against COVID vaccination requirements. Great.
- First Dolly Parton turned “Jolene” into “Vaccine” to encourage people to get their COVID-19 shots. Now someone has taken Bob Marley’s “Jamming” and turned it into “Jabbing.“
- New York is reopening music venues with limited audiences. Is that a good idea?
- Machine Gun Kelly’s drummer was robbed, assaulted, and hit by a car. He’ll be fine.
- Here’s more on the MA on The Beatles being offered by Liverpool University. It costs £9,000 ($15,800) or £18,900 $33,300) for overseas students.
- Speaking of academic things, this neuroscientist wanted to know if he could make zebrafish dance to MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This.” It’s science, brah.
- They don’t make expensive music videos like this anymore.
- Wow. I need to learn more about grunge pioneer Tina Bell. Who? That’s the problem.
- A Janet Jackson documentary is in the works.
- Jay-Z has sold a majority interest in Tidal, in his streaming music service, to Square for US$297 million. The buyer? Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
- And speaking of that sale, how much do Tidal’s musical partners (including Jack White) stand to make?
- The app with the most in-app purchases in February? TikTok with over US$110 million.
- How big is Rod Stewart’s model train collection? It took seven shipping containers to transport it.
- This woman immigrated to Canada from India. Here’s how she came to understand Canada’s love of The Tragically Hip.
- This is a good watch: Dre the Music Man.
- Pussy Riot is back with a wild video.
- And is the Mars Volta coming back? Well, kind of.