Random music news for Monday, November 7, 2022
Don’t worry. Contrary to a previous story, research says that picking your nose WON’T cause Alzheimer’s. A relief, no? Now let’s try some music news for November 7, 2022. And there’s a lot.
- There was a near disaster at a K-pop show in Indonesia with another crowd crush situation.
- What do you get when you crossbreed Slipknot with Ozzy? We’ll soon find out.
- Abbey Road’s “Amplify” event is on this week. Details here.
- Jay-Z and Jeff Bezos are looking into buying the Washington Commanders.
- Apparently Diddy helped Elon Musk take over Twitter with a US$10 million investment.
- Meta researchers say that they’ve come up with a compression algorithm that shrink digital files 10X more than MP3s.
- Interesting: This Australian guy says he was hired to make sure Kurt Cobain didn’t OD.
- If you’re into radio, here’s some lovely nostalgia.
- Selena Gomez named her donated kidney after Fred Armisen. Thanks?
- Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen is missing a few shows after undergoing a “minor procedure.”
- Who’s the biggest artist in the world right now? This guy.
- Uh, there’s no such thing as “Ticketfaster.” You’ve been scammed, kid.
- Need some winter reading? Here are some of the best music memoirs of all time.
- Here’s the story of how Johnny Cash came to cover NIN’s “Hurt.”
- This is a vicious takedown of the kind of Twitter Elon Musk wants us to have.
- Peter Jackson’s AI tech used for the Get Back documentary was also used on the new Revolver reissue. Here’s why that’s interesting.
- With the US midterms coming up tomorrow, Joe Biden is going after “hidden junk fees” on concert tickets.
- Parts of Glastonbury 2023 have already sold out.
- Norway is one of the countries with the most electric cars per capita. That revolution was inspired by…A-ha? Apparently.
- Spotify data shows what’s going on with the decline of English.
- Noel Gallagher’s handwritten lyrics for “Wonderwall” sold at auction for £46,875.
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