Random music news for Saturday, February 29, 2020
Look at it this way: Get past today and we won’t have to deal with another extra-long February until 2024. That means we won’t have to deal with music news for February 29 for a while.
- Here’s a fun February 29 story to get us started.
- Coronavirus update 1: There are whispers that SXSW might be canceled. (Note that the massive Geneva Auto Show has definitely been canceled this year.)
- Coronavirus update 2: BTS has canceled their South Korean tour.
- Coronavirus update 3: SiriusXM has quarantined a top executive and some staffers over an infection scare.
- Coronavirus update 4: Green Day has canceled their Asian tour.
- Coronavirus update 5: Here’s a summary of music events that have been canceled.
- Coronavirus update 6: A DOG has come down with the disease in Hong Kong.
- Coronavirus update 7: If you’re going out for drinks this weekend, don’t be afraid to drink Corona beer like some people. Seriously.
- Here are my weekly music picks for GlobalNews.ca.
- A new British club night will feature nothing but material from Oasis.
- There are now more than 900,000 different podcasts with 27 million episodes available through Apple Podcasts.
- RZA from Wu-Tang Clan has just released a recording of guided meditations. It’s…interesting.
- Good news for the Toronto music scene: The ancient Wheat Sheaf Tavern will soon reopen.
- Meanwhile, staff is still hopeful that Clinton’s can be saved.
- A beloved downtown Ottawa record store is going to close to make way for a pot shop.
- Here comes the tax on Netflix and Facebook.
- Bon Jovi was probably chuffed by this. He also met Prince Harry at Abbey Road for this.
- This will be one big music venue.
- Musicians share their air travel horror stories. A forklift?
