Random music news for Friday, March 8, 2024
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- RIP Ronnie King, the bass player for The Stampeders, one of Canada’s most successful bands of the 70s.
- After six years of dating, Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson are now engaged.
- The Israel-Hamas-Palestine crisis is affecting SXSW.
- Taylor Swift’s US$21,000/night Singapore villa is really something.
- Re: Taylor. Her Eras tour is distorting the attempts at concert ticket reform. Discuss.
- Researchers at Sony have created an AI bassline generator. They’ll never replace Flea, though.
- What demographic is most finicky about subscribing to a streaming music service? Millennials.
- How much are you paying for Netflix? This chart looks at what it costs around the world.
- What in the world is going on inside Sublime? There’s some new legal action.
- Two singers are about to be honoured with Barbie dolls.
- Can anything be done to lure teens back to radio? Read this.
- Elon Musk and X have won a victory against music publishers. Kind of.
- This is good: The number of independent record shops in the UK has hit a ten-year high.
- On that note, these are the most-collected vinyl records of all time.
- Oopsie, Spotify. What are you going to do about this?
BONUS: Could a movie about a new American civil war cause a new, real civil war? That’s the concern.
BONUS BONUS: Will this new Steve Martin documentary cause a new civil war? No. But it’ll be fun. (Via Sean)
