Random music news for Saturday, April 13, 2024

Who’s buying shares of Donald Trump’s dog of a media company? No one seems to know. Meanwhile, over in reality, here’s what’s happening with music news for April 13, 2024.

1. How many genres of music are there? Glenn McDonald probably as a better idea than anyone.
2. Coachella: Not cheap.
3. Toronto’s St. Lawerence Centre–a great venue–is going to get a massive facelift.
4. Tay-Tay is on the billionaires list.
5. She’s also back on TikTok even though she’s signed to Universal Music which is boycotting the platform. How is that possible? Oh.
6. Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains) got his beloved guitar back. It wasn’t stolen after all. (Via Tom)
7. Is the era of the diss track over? Maybe.
8. Spotify plans to allow users to speed up tracks–but there’s a catch.
9. This year’s Coachella? Meh.
10. Related to that topic, the average US music festival emits 228 metric tons of CO_2.
11. The first trailer for the Michael Jackson biopic is out.
12. The Lenny Kravitz workout: Don’t do it, say trainers.
13. Which Beatle had the best solo album? Let’s look at the data.
14. Blame radio. It used to be a thing.
15. Despite its best efforts, Apple is still a defendant in the Astroworld disaster case.
16. Twitter X is still on the hook in a US$250 million copyright lawsuit filed by music publishers.

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