Random music news for Monday, August 10, 2026

Back in the home office after a two-week trip to Asia. Let’s find out what’s happening with music news for August 10, 2026.\

1. RIP producer William Orbit (Madonna, Prince, Blur, and many more.) He was 69.
2. Taylor Swift 1, Donald Trump 0. It was a copyright smackdown.
3. Morrissey did another very Morrissey thing. With just days to go, he cancelled his sold-out Las Vegas residency due to “unforeseen logistical challenges.” Because of course he did.
4. Universal and Sony have banded together to sue Musi, the rogue music app.
5. Kanye has been sued by an anonymous producer who says Kayne stiffed him on work he did on two albums.
6. A Canadian hacker has pleased guilty to breaking into Ticketmaster to steal data and extort customers
7. Veeps, a subsidiary of Live Nation, has gutted the editorial team of music sites Alternative Press, Brooklyn Vegan, Revolver, and Goldmine. It’s a VERY hard hit to music journalism.
8. Oasis at Knebworth next year? You can probably bet on that now.
9. Winnipeg’s Brent Fitz, drummer for Slash and Triumph, has had a street named after him in the city. (Via Tom)
10. So have Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham made up after all these years? It looks like it.
11. Meanwhile, Lindsey’s long-term stalker has been ruled mentally unfit to stand trial. (Via Rick J)
12. Scientists say that birdsong is remarkably similar to human language.
13. Got a Roku device? It now as a 24/7 AI slop channel. Why?
14. Meta is paying out money to neo-Nazi pages. Wait–what?
15. In 1888, Mark Twain wrote about the internet. Again, wait–what?

BONUS: Is MySpace about to make a comeback? That seems to be the plan.