Random music news for Monday, October 17, 2022
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- Haitian singer Mikaben died onstage in Paris this weekend.
- This is quite brilliant: The full and largely untold story behind Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).”
- Looks like we may have a track listing for U2’s Songs of Surrender album. (Via Aaron)
- Beck has dropped off the North American leg of Arcade Fire’s tour.
- More hotel rooms should be like this.
- Ads on Netflix? Yep. Coming to Canada November 1.
- A 25th-anniversary edition of Green Day’s Nimrod album is coming on November 14.
- Greg Graffin of Bad Religion has a book coming out called Punk Paradox.
- There’s now a street named after Fats Domino in his hometown of New Orleans. About time.
- Wu-Tang clan has a new line of merch with the New York Knicks.
- Tina Turner: The Barbie doll.
- I can see how this could come in handy…
- Ringo Starr tested positive AGAIN for COVID. The rest of his North American tour has been called off.
- Any of these nine artists might be picked for the next James Bond theme. I vote Radiohead.
- So THAT’S how the ear works! Cooooool.
- This Mac once owned by Steve Jobs is going up for auction. It won’t go cheap.
- Notice Drake’s OVO logo on the jerseys of FC Barcelona?
- On a related note (but on a somewhat lesser scale), the Route 19 bus in Calgary has been named after Tegan and Sara’s new album.
- Anxious? Paranoid? Listen to some birds singing.
BONUS: Any idea what the most popular website in Canada is? This map lays things out.
BONUS BONUS: It’s probably too early, but here’s an unreleased version of “The Christmas Song” from that Charlie Brown TV special.