Random music news for Monday, January 2, 2023
Fun with tech: A spray-on skin that allows you to type without a keyboard. Cool. And let’s get music news going for the year with a look at random items for January 2, 2023.
- RIP Modest Mouse drummer and founding member Jeremiah Green. We heard about his stage four cancer just a couple of weeks ago. He was 45.
- RIP Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters.
- RIP Stanley Mills, the man who made the Chicken Dance a thing. It’s quite a story.
- Shane MacGowan is not well. He’s suffering from encephalitis.
- And according to some TikTok whackos, Britney is no longer with us. Right.
- These are the highest-earning songs of all time.
- A 30-year-old Spice Girls song with a naughty title has been leaked.
- I had no idea that ABBA was so charitable with this song.
- According to someone who should know, “2023 is going to be a massive year for U2.” (Via Raven)
- This could be a shortlist for Coachella headliners for 2023.
- Queen guitarist Brian May is now Sir Brian May.
- Moby will soon have a 2 1/2 hour ambient album.
- This fact about Kanye may not compute. (Via Andrew)
- Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” has passed 1 billion spins on Spotify.
- I had no idea of this connection between Paul McCartney and Barbara Walters.
- If you’re looking for the 100 best songs of 2022, you can start here.
- The Beatles now have their own graphic novel.
BONUS: Here’s a new edit of Blazing Saddles for the new woke world of 2023. This seems about right. (Via Tom)
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