Random music news for Friday, September 18, 2020
Here comes Playstation 5. And here comes music news for September 18, 2020.
- Coronavirus update 1: A safe music festival will be launched in Australia.
- Coronavirus update 2: Canadian’s National Music Centre has laid off 30 staffers.
- Coronavirus update 3: Don’t do this.
- Coronavirus update 4: Michael Stipe isn’t happy with how the virus is being handled in his old home town.
- Streaming now accounts for 85% of all revenue for US record labels.
- The number of heavy podcast listeners (i.e. those who listen 6+ hours a week) is on the rise.
- When acts get back to touring, the biggest ones will be able to play this new 100,000 capacity venue in Italy.
- I had no idea that Burton Cummings was once on The Dating Game. Here’s video proof.
- I wonder of Queen guitarist Brian May is flattered by this?
- Heavy metal love.
- Some recordings of Joni Mitchell made in 1963(!!!) have been found.
- Back to video games: The release of first-ever vinyl version of the Quake soundtrack–written by Trent Reznor–is imminent.
- Another Beatles book, this time to go with Peter Jackson’s Get Back documentary.
- The Prodigy are back in the studio for the first time since Keith Flint’s death.
- Is the Internet conscious?
- Taylor Swift’s stalker has been sentenced to 30 months in jail.
- Black Sabbath’s Paranoid at 50.
- Nicki Minaj 1, Tracy Chapman 0.
- There’s a big Elton John box set on the way.