Random Music News for Monday, June 15, 2015
Dandelions. If you think they’re so pretty, you can have all of mine.
- The guy who wrote the music for The Avengers has been hired to write a theme for the US Open Golf Championship.
- The Canadian Independent Music Association isn’t really happy with Apple’s attitude about free music. (This will be a topic at tonight’s 40th anniversary gala in Toronto.)
- There’s been another Pussy Riot arrest in Russia.
- Cream drummer Ginger Baker is as cantankerous as ever. (Via Tom)
- First U2’s Edge falls off a stage. Then Enrique Iglesias gets cut up by a drone. Then Dave Grohl breaks his leg. And now this guy from 5 Seconds of Summer gets all burned up onstage.
- This female Kurdish rapper isn’t going to find many fans within ISIS.
- Soundsgood wants to be able to help you control all your streaming music service accounts.
- These new guitar picks might end up changing the sound of a lot of guitars. It’s science!\
- Could this be the coolest music festival of the summer?
- This UK festival will be used to test face recognition technology. This seems like of narc-y.
- Metallica shredded the US national anthem before game 5 of the NBA final.
- Beyonce has been sued for plagiarism by one of her backup singers.
- If you use the smartphone navigation app Waze, you should know that Arnold has voiced it as The Terminator.
- Kanye and Oprah get “drought-slammed” for ignoring the water emergency in California.
- If you’re a convicted paedophile, you probably should write songs about your victims from jail.
