Random music news for Monday, May 15, 2023
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- Sharon and Ozzy are selling one of their places. Wanna buy their condo?
- We always hear about insanely expensive concert tickets, but we never hear about situations where tickets are insanely cheap because of low demand. Case in point: A recent Duran Duran show in Glasgow where a ticket could be had for £7. (Via the Popbitch newsletter).
- The former president of Croatia has written an opera about the death of John Lennon.
- Report: Britney Spears is addicted to caffeine.
- If you’re going to reunite the band, best not get into a fight on stage during a reunion show.
- How bad a customer do you have to be to get blacklisted by a vinyl company?
- The EU is closer to implementing rules over the use of AI. Humans gotta be supervisors.
- Meanwhile, Facebook is using AI to help advertisers write ads for the platform.
- This vinyl company has been fined US$25 million for promising all-analogue releases when in fact some digital steps were involved.
- TikTok is now making it easier to track new music on the platform. Use the hashtag #NewMusic.
- That mystery book Swifties thought was written by Tay-Tay? Nope. It’s actually a BTS book.
- Have you heard all the bonus material from the 10th anniversary edition of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories?
- Wait: Prince was offered a part in The Fifth Element and passed because he didn’t like the costumes?
- Poison’s Brett Michaels is selling this place in LA.
- Adidas will try to sell US$1 billion worth of Yeezy shoes.
- Is Twitter becoming an adult site? Some people think so.
- With fans like this, who needs enemies?
- Jesus? Is that you?
BONUS: There’s a mystery gimp on the loose in the UK.
BONUS: Need some old-fashioned cooking? Here you go.
