Random music news for Monday, December 4, 2023
This is fun: A story from 1983 that talks about a new thing called “electronic mail.” Quaint, no? As for music news for December 4, 2023…
- Since the death of Shane MacGowan last week, some old stories are back–like the time he got into a fight with Kiefer Sutherland.
- And a new story: He spent his last months bingeing this TV show.
- RIP Chad Allen, founder of Chad Allen and The Expressions who would morph into The Guess Who.
- Avril Lavigne and a few others have been inducted into the Canada’s Walk of Fame.
- People can’t seem to get enough of the legal fight between Hall and Oates. See?
- An Andy Warhol portrait of Mick Jagger is going up for auction this week. You’ll need deep pockets.
- Peter Gabriel: “AI is about to turn our world upside down.”
- Here come the AI-powered stars.
- Phish has been signed to play The Sphere in Las Vegas for four nights in April.
- The new Offspring podcast features the “Keep ‘Em Separated” guy. Watch/listen here.
- Sony Music has issued nearly 10,000 deepfake takedowns.
- Interesting perspective: “Live music is a time machine.”
- The Weeknd donated US$2 million of humanitarian supplies to Gaza.
- Mississauga, Ontario, has a crazy-guy-with-speakers-on-a-cart-blaring-loud-music problem.
- This is a weird computational quirk of the latest iPhone cameras. (Via Rick J)
- E Street drummer Max Weinberg is not happy about the restoration work done on his Mercedes.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber–yes, him–has formed a “supergroup” with a very special mission.
- Britney had a dog emergency.
BONUS: Having a dog is good for your brain. Well, duh.
