Random music news for Friday, May 1, 2020
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- Coronavirus update 1: Gene Simmons of KISS has taken an interest in the COVID-19 situation in…Brampton?
- Coronavirus update 2: No big surprise here: Facebook has seen a spike in use during the coronavirus crisis.
- Coronavirus update 3: These eight songs have become more popular during these last couple of months for obvious reasons.
- Coronavirus update 4: Eminem is selling off a pair of ultra-rare sneakers to raise money for COVID-19 research.
- Coronavirus update 5: Guelph’s Hillside Festival has been canceled for 2020. But keep your tickets.
- Coronavirus update 6: During quarantine, smart speakers are hot and getting hotter.
- Coronavirus update 7: Canada’s major record labels have announced some big support for musicians in trouble via the Unison Benevolent Fund.
- Shortly after Apple Podcasts made the same claim, Spotify also says it has over one million podcasts available for distribution.
- Deezer is using AI to root out explicit lyrics in songs.
- Britney Spears set her gym on fire. Candles, apparently.
- It appears that the public’s interest in livestreaming gigs is here to stay.
- More than 2 billion people have now downloaded Tik Tok.
- Bored? Generate some memes.
- Streaming saved the music industry but not the artists: Discuss.
- This artist asked for 200 records to autograph for her label. They accidentally sent her 20,000. Oops.
- Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 has become a dad for the first time.
- Re: Radio: Yes to all of this.
- Singing gorillas. That is all.
- Here’s a new song from Thom Yorke.
