Random music news for Monday, February 10, 2025
Americans are so freaked out about the price of eggs that they’re renting chickens. And we’ve been boiling eggs all wrong. Music news for February 10, 2025.
- RIP producer Dave Jerden who worked with Jane’s Addiction, Alice in Chains, and many others. He was 75.
- Ozzy will probably have to perform that Sabbath reunion this July sitting down. He can’t walk.
- Here’s how that Ozzy/Sabbath show will play out.
- What was the story behind last year’s canceled Black Keys tour? Let’s ask Dan and Patrick.
- The Chinese government isn’t keen to talk about a sale of TikTok because of Trump’s new tariffs. (Via Olie)
- Kanye is demanding that Diddy be released from prison. Sorry, Ye. No one takes you seriously.
- This music streaming fraudster appealed his sentence in The Netherlands. Upon appeal, his sentence was increased.
- A good read: “DeepSeek is a wake-up call for the music industry.”
- The estate of Isaac Hayes refuses to back down to Donald Trump in a lawsuit over unauthorized use of the song “Hold On, I’m Coming.”
- These are the nominations for the 2025 Women in Music Canada Honours.
- So much for that nine-hour Prince documentary on Netflix. It’ll never be released.
- How about some rejected Weird Al songs? Here you go.
- Coldplay just shot a video in Singapore. Talk about an ad for the city-state.
- How about a emo-themed Caribbean cruise?
- Johnny Marr says that the struggles music venues are experience are the result of “unregulated capitalism.”
BONUS: The Price is Right is about to celebrate 10,000 episodes. I wonder how many pets have been spayed or neutered over that time?
