Random music news for Saturday, December 21, 2024
Happy solstice. And with Festivus just around the corner, the days will start getting longer. Meanwhile, we can cram a bunch of music news into December 21, 2024, the shortest day of the year.
- RIP Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap. He was 73.
- Apparently Liam Payne was really struggling with drugs in the time leading up to his death.
- Nirvana’s Nevermind has now spent 700 weeks on the Billboard album chart. Only eight other albums have done that.
- Noel Gallagher has finally come out and admitted that there could be a new Oasis album in our future.
- How things change: Rob Halford and Alice Cooper–once two very scary rockers in their own way–have teamed up for a Christmas song for children.
- Questlove is directing a documentary on Saturday Night Live.
- AI-generated concert listings is now apparently a thing.
- Luigi Mangione and copyright infringement is also a thing.
- You can tell we’re getting very close to the holidays when stuff like this makes music news.
- GROSS, dude!
- Still like the idea of stage-diving? Read this. And once you’re done that, read this.
- Sam Goody, once a major record store chain in the US, will soon be gone for good.
- Here’s a radio station with a format that harkens back to the way things were sixty and more years ago.
- Here’s the annual “all-the-stuff-that-happens-on-the-internet-in-a-minute” survey.
- And finally, how about this bit of internet nostalgia?
BONUS: Damn kids. What’s wrong with them these days?
