Random music news for Friday, November 7, 2025
It’s almost ski season. How about a giant hamster wheel that could revolutionize indoor skiing? Now let’s try some music news for November 7, 2025.
- This bothers me: The number of AI “artists” that have songs on the charts.
- Amazon Web Services plans to lay a new cable across the Atlantic that will be able to stream 12.5 million HD films at the same time.
- Still with Amazon, Amazon Music’s mobile app has new Alexa+ features.
- Netflix plans to launch video podcasts.
- This is good: Three labels that built alternative rock.
- Older hits will fall off the Billboard Hot 100 more quickly. Here’s why.
- Nick Cave’s novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, has been made into a TV series. It’s coming soon.
- It’s not just record suing AI companies for training their models on copyright material. It’s happening with photo archives, too.
- Gen Z LOVES Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album. Let’s explore why.
- TikTok has nominated these people as Artist of the Year nominees. How many do you know?
- The Tragically Hip is on board for a 2026 World Cup project.
- Dan Mangan’s alternative booking/promotion company Side Door Access is shutting down. I bet I did a hundred speaking gigs through them.
- Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye working together? Yes, please.
- Some kids were having a guitar lesson as a music store. Then Metallica’s Robert Trujillo unexpectedly showed up to explain how “Enter Sandman” should be played.
- How to ruin a US$2,000,000 studio mixing desk with a cheeseburger.
BONUS: Hudson’s Bay: Not quite dead yet. In fact, there’s something of a resurrection going on.
