Random music news for Monday, March 31, 2025

If you’re thinking that you need a new game of celebrity Simon says, try this. Once you wrench yourself away from that, head on to music news for March 31, 2025.

1. There are a lot of cheap tickets available for Beyonce’s upcoming tour. Does this mean something for the touring industry at large.
2. The first concerts for the newly refurbished Hamilton arena (once known as Copps Coliseum) have been announced.
3. If you’re interested in how royalties are paid to musicians in Canada, take a read of this.
4. Let’s keep on top of who’s playing at NXSW in Toronto this year.
5. Want to smell like Duran Duran? Now you can!
6. Most of the growth in music is coming from the “global south.” Here’s what that means.
7. Bishop Briggs is getting threats from Kanye fans because she wouldn’t let him sample her music. She doesn’t like Nazis.
8. Dua Lipa has emerged victorious in a copyright infringement lawsuit.
9. K-pop is in crisis. Here’s what’s going on.
10. This is an excellent example of history repeating itself in a cool way. IYKYK.
11. A lot of American white people were angry at the lack of DEI in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show. Wait–what?
12. There’s an interesting re-evaluation of Yoko Ono going on. Here’s what that means.
13. Roger Daltrey of The Who says he’s slowly going blind.
14. Here’s an update on the health of Dave King, frontman of Flogging Mollys.
15. Trump shut down Radio Free Europe. Here’s why that’s awful.

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