Random music news for Monday, March 17, 2025
What’s on the menu for today? OH GOD NO! NO! NO! NO! WHY WASN’T ANYONE WATCHING THIS GUY? Moving to music news for March 17, 2025…
- Spotify does the right thing and took down Andrew Tate’s “pimping” podcast. Good.
- Meanwhile, Spotify is trumpeting what it’s doing with audiobooks.
- Not good: The giant Cosmo Music store north of Toronto is closing down. The companyhas been in business for 57 years.
- RIP Carl Lundström, co-founder of music piracy organization The Pirate Plane. It was a plane crash.
- Google and OpenAI have some ideas on AI and copyright–and the music industry isn’t happy.
- Radiohead? Are you teasing a return? It’s possible because they’ve just formed this new legal entity.
- Real time language translation with a new verson of AirPods? Yes, please!
- John Lennon will soon be honoured with a commemorative coin.
- A posthumous Marianne Faithful album will be released on Record Store Day.
- New Van Halen? What?
- Rik Emmett of Triumph: Not a fan of the Republicans.
- Bob Dylan’s earliest known recording just sold for US$39,325.
- Goth Cyndi Lauper? Yes.
- WTF, CBS?
- Such a shame, huh?
BONUS: Need a reminder to put stop working to step away from all the screens? There’s an app for that.
