Random music news for Monday, August 18, 2025
Forget the regular Olympics. Your new jam is the Humanoid Robot Olympics. Then jam on music news for August 18, 2025.
- Who didn’t see this coming? Rising prices for streaming services are sending people back to music piracy.
- The Drake vs. UMG lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar’s “One of Us” continues to heat up. Here’s the latest.
- Liam Gallagher has been banned from throwing his tambourine into the crowd at Oasis shows after some unfortunate fan interactions.
- “Baby Shark” is free and clear from a plagiarism charge after a six-year fight.
- The rise and fall of luxury in music.
- Are podcast listener numbers accurate? Let’s look into that.
- Slipknot might just be about to sell its catalogue of songs for US$120 million. Who had that on their bingo card?
- Threads has 400 million users and growing. That means it could pass X/Twitter as early as next year.
- Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine says that he’s retiring. (Via Tom)
- Is corpse paint for black metal bands going out of style? Well, yes and no.
- John Fogerty reminisces about his really, really, REALLY bad record deal.
- Here’s a new use for AI: Dubbing foreign languages for TV and movies.
- AI band The Velvet Sundown’s time seems to have passed. Good.
- YouTube Music is testing a new “daily discovery tool.” Spotify doesn’t have this.
- The governor of a Mexican state has come out in defense of Marilyn Manson.
BONUS: This is a pretty cool mashup. (Via Ed and Eve)
