Random Music News for Monday, October 5, 2015
On this day in 1984, Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space. And now, in music news…
- Glastonbury tickets went on sale yesterday and sold out in 32 minutes without any announcement of headliners–or any acts, for that matter.
- Muse really, really, really wants to headline…
- …but so does Coldplay.
- Someone was paid $9,000 to put together an official campaign playlist for Hillary Clinton.
- And in case you missed it, Hillary was on SNL this past weekend.
- Former Partridge Family dude arrested for a hit-and-run.
- Iggy Pop will guest on Kyle Minogue’s Christmas album. No, really.
- I don’t want to know what’s going on with this Justin Bieber picture. (Why, Tom? Why?)
- Maybe the Chavril split is a friendly sort of thing.
- So maybe Avril isn’t dead as the tinfoil people would have us believe.
- Now that we’re at the 20th anniversary of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory from Oasis, here are 20 facts about the album.
- British Prime Minister David Cameron is obsessive about Phil Collins. Is that worse than the pig thing?
- Meanwhile, British Chancellor George Osborne is a fan of gangsta.
- Some classic rock stars aren’t happy with Kanye.
- An interesting story about a very successful British pop producer who is almost completely unknown.
- A good interview with Patti Smith.
- This choir is making an album in the most beautiful recording studio in the world.
- Snoop Dogg pushed a German club into bankruptcy–but it really wasn’t his fault.
- I bet that John-Claude Van Damme wants this dance footage back. (More Tom)
- This new music app called Crowdmix looks interesting. It sure has a lot of money behind it even though it hasn’t been launched yet.
