Random music news for Friday, October 9, 2020
If he were still with us, John Lennon would have turned 80 today. If you’re a fan, you might want to listen to this. Moving on to music news for October 9, 2020…
- Coronavirus update 1: Here are some Canadian pandemic music heroes.
- Coronavirus update 2: The Foo Fighters are among the acts that will participate in a virtual festival.
- Coronavirus update 3: The Flaming Lips are going to hold a concert where the audience is protected by dozens of bubbles.
- Coronavirus update 4: Here are some of the hard realities of life in a band these days via Mastodon.
- Wow. Eddie Van Halen lived HARD.
- Surprise! Van Halen streams, downloads, and sales are going through the roof.
- “See you on the other side.”
- Thought experiment: What if Eddie Van Halen had played the solo in “Stairway to Heaven?” (Via Fred)
- This is good: He and Sammy Hagar quietly made up before he died.
- Another reason to give the kid music lessons: Children who learn an instrument can “focus for longer and remember more throughout their lives.”
- Music piracy is still a problem–and Apple is apparently distributing music piracy apps.
- Is pop music getting bad? Are we seeing the rise of the music snob?
- Here’s an interesting contest: How would you like to be able to name a new song?
- Can music make you sick?
- What?
