Random music news for Monday, November 18, 2024

I don’t think anyone asked for this: An AI program that allegedly writes better poems than Shakespeare. Again, I want AI to do the drudgery so humans have more time to make art. Moving to music news for November 18, 2024…

1. Here’s your mind-blowing stat for the week: “More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989.” Read about it here.
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has a soundtrack just for 90s kids.
3. There’s a new book on Richard Manuel of The Band coming.
4. A stolen watch given to John Lennon worth US$4.5 million is being returned to Yoko. It’s quite the story.
5. Bjork is helping the environment again with this “immersive sound piece.”
6. The largest radio station in American may soon be owned by…7-Eleven? And it’s not what you think.
7. The first batch of Glastonbury tickets sold out in about 30 minutes.
8. This is a nice honour for a one-hit-wonder.
9. “How REM created alternative music.” Discuss.
10. Rage against the election, metal version. (Via Walter)
11. Adam Clayton appeared on Irish TV and had some news for fans. Watch here.
12. AI doesn’t like humanity very much. Here’s proof. (Via Tom)
13. The CRTC wants to redefine the nature of Cancon. This should be interesting.
14. “Three or four records” of unreleased Van Halen music? Whoa.
15. That’s a LOT of My Chemical Romance tickets, don’t you think? It’s enough to make even the most emo person sadder.

More music news? Go here.

BONUS: Octopus. The answer is octopus.

BONUS BONUS: A guy died in a tanning bed at a Planet Fitness location. He wasn’t discovered for three days. Can you imagine if the bed didn’t have a timer?