Random music news for Friday, November 15, 2019
A long-haul trip home today: SIN-HKG-YYZ. Shouldn’t take more than 23 hours or so. But before I left, I had time to compile music news for November 15, 2019.
- Who says teens don’t listen to the radio? That’s not what this study says.
- Apparently Freddie Mercury suffered the loss of a foot when he battled AIDs.
- Trent Reznor had some fun on Instagram after he became a Country Music Awards winner.
- Paul McCartney initially was not a fan of the idea of the movie Yesterday.
- The Velvet Underground as Peanuts characters. Hey, I laughed.
- An auction of Olivia Newton-John memorabilia netted US$2.4 million.
- It’s coming up to Christmas, so there’s gonna be another massive Pink Floyd box set, right? Right.
- If you’re ever thinking about going clubbing in Manchester…
- Just because you’re dead doesn’t mean that you can’t release new music. But is that music any good?
- Here’s a good interview with Michael Stipe and Mike Mills about the history of REM.
- How did Spotify finally end up being profitable? Here are three ways it happened.
- This new British radio station will play nothing but songs from musicals.
- This young drummer is amazing–and she’s only 9.
- Nirvana’s lawsuit against designer Mark Jacobs is going ahead.
