Random music news for Saturday, April 4, 2020
No, it’s not your imagination. You may have seen robins earlier than usual. Let’s move to music news for April 4, 2020.
- Coronavirus update 1: Tekashi 6ix9ine is out of prison early because of COVID-9 issues. Another jailed rapper, YNW Melly, has the virus and is also petitioning for early release.
- Coronavirus update 2: Will Burning Man be canceled this year? There are hints that it will.
- Coronavirus update 3: Janet Jackson is the latest musician to plead for Americans to stay home.
- Coronavirus update 4: Andrew Lloyd Webber wants to relieve your boredom by streaming musicals.
- Coronavirus update 5: SoundCloud has added a button next to creator profiles so you can make a financial donation.
- Coronavirus update 6: How long will the music industry keep to its pre-COVID-19 album release schedule? There’s some debate about that.
- Coronavirus update 7: Canadian indie record stores are really suffering.
- Coronavirus update 8: Some good news: More than $1.5 million in emergency funds have been set aside for Canadian musicians.
- Coronavirus update 9: According to some internal documents I’ve seen, in-home tuning to radio in Canada is up 70% during the COVID-19 crisis. And it’s not just to news stations. People are tuning in more music radio as a distraction from all the bad news.
- Coronavirus update 10: Metallica is donating $US350,000 to coronavirus relief.
- Coronavirus update 11: Pink had the virus but has since recovered. She’s donating US$1million.
- Coronavirus update 12: Christopher Cross has been infected.
- Here are my weekly music picks for GlobalNews.ca.
- Interesting: New silicon-based microspeakers.
- The Weeknd has apparently co-written an episode of American Dad. See?
- Distract yourself from everything with more gossip about the Gallagher family.
- And if you’re getting married anytime soon, here are the songs that have been banned the most at the reception.
