Random music news for Monday, February 15, 2021
This is a great article on how social media and public outrage have come together–and it’s not good. Once you’re done with that, move to music news for February 15, 2021.
- Do the Ramones’ people know about this?
- Nicki Minaj’s father has been killed in a hit and run.
- Pharrell Williams just won a victory in a hangover from the “Blurred Lines” plagiarism trial.
- Now Jay-Z is into bitcoin with a big investment.
- A good interview with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee Todd Rundgren.
- Rupert Neve, creator of some of the most iconic recording consoles of all time, has died at age 94.
- This product exists. It’s weird, but I can understand its utility.
- Here’s a t-shirt I can get behind. (Via Larry)
- An Eddie Van Halen photo book is coming later this year.
- There’s a Netflix true crime documentary that falsely implicates a metal musician.
- Gene Simmons once wrote to Marvel in hopes of getting into a Fantastic Four movie.
- That’s a lot of coke.
Larry and Alan, thank you for sharing Music Declares Emergency. Yep, it was a t-shirt (and hoodie!) I could get behind too. Plus I joined the group. I liked that they included fans in the mix rather than it just being made up of music industry professionals.
Some of their message is really appropos re something I had to deal with in December and just thoroughly disgusts me. It goes against everything I ever believed in but someone else was handling things because I wasn’t able to do it myself. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fully forgive myself for what that person did on my behalf because I didn’t handle everything myself. At the time, I thought I was making the right decision and it wasn’t. Unfortunately, there’s only a minor learning lesson for my takeaway but it has to be enough.