Random music news for Saturday, December 7, 2024
Thieves made off with 2,500 pies from a Michelin-starred chef. No leads yet. Moving to music news for December 7, 2024…
- Coachella 2025: Still not sold out yet. This is the second year in a row sales have started slow.
- UK band Sports Team was robbed at gunpoint on the very first day of their US tour.
- A Taylor Swift ticket dispute in BC had to be settled by a tribunal.
- Musicians have experienced a lot of disruptive change. Here’s what could be coming next.
- Speaking of which, it’s estimated that music sector workers will lose almost 25% of their income to AI over the next four years.
- Amazon is building a massive AI supercomputer. Feel free to guess how that will change things.
- Here’s the latest #MeToo allegations. This case involves teen pics and the singer of a band.
- Meanwhile, Axl Rose has settled a s*xual assault lawsuit.
- Lindsey Buckingham has filed for a restraining order against a stalker.
- Interesting: Live Nation just bought a big chunk of a Hollywood influencer management company.
- Rolling Stone has a list of the 100 best albums of 2024. How many of these artists will we even be thinking about in a year?
- Hypelist is the latest app to promise better music recommendations.
- In addition to Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music dropping their year-end summary lists, so has SoundCloud.
- Jeezus. What’s going on with Britney now?
- Billboard says that Beyonce is the number one greatest pop artist of the century–and it’s only still 2024.
BONUS: How about a ska-punk cover of The Kinks’ “Father Christmas?”
