Random music news for Friday, September 26, 2025

This guy really hates 5G cell towers. Only in America… Now for some high-speed music news for September 26, 2025.

D4vd, the rapper whose Tesla was found at an impound lot with a missing girl in the boot, has cancelled his world tour.
Two Colombian musicians went missing in Mexico. They’ve been found dead.
Dua Lipa fired her agent over his pro-Israel stance. Wait! She didn’t!
MAGA is mad at GWAR. The band is okay with that. They’re non-discriminating aliens.
Diddy has asked for a 14-month sentence, saying that he has “serious substance abuse issues.”
Morrissey has resumed his tour after that death threat scare.
Fender has had to increase the price of its guitars in the US. Why? Trump’s tariffs on parts used to make them.
“Concert tickets are underpriced.” Wait–what?
Coachella 2026 sold out less than a week after the lineup was announced. The festival hadn’t sold out in 2024 and 2025.
It looks like The Cure has a busy 2026 planned. However, will this be a farewell?
There’s currently a big crackdown on people selling bootleg artist merch. Here’s the latest.
There are worries about the future of the Broadway musical.
Social media wars! Bluesky aims to reduce the number of toxic posts. (Yay!) Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Xitter continues to see revenue shrink. (Yay! Yay! Yay!)
I haven’t heard of any radio stations flipping to all-Christmas music yet (any second now, though), but I do have these online Halloween stations.
Can AI write TV? Well…