Random music news for Saturday, January 11, 2025

Here’s a list of some of the celebrities who have been impacted by the wildfires around Los Angeles. Moving to music news for January 11, 2025…

1. Here are the biggest concert tours coming to Canada in 2025–so far, that is. Toronto will lalso have its new Rogers Stadium and Hamilton will eventuall have its downtown arena back after a $300 million renovation.
2. Three months later, we now know the official cause of Liam Payne’s death: “Polytrauma.”
3. What’s older music’s best friend? TikTok.
4. I had high hopes for Threads. But now that it’s getting rid of fact-checking, it’s headed in the same sad direction as Xitter.
5. I’d always suspected this: Rush admits “incorrectly” deciding to shorten their farewell tour.
6. There’s a book coming in August about the toxic relationship between Elvis Presley and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
7. Here’s another opinion on the practice of dynamic pricing.
8. I’d forgotten that the owner of CNN once had a video music channel. (Via Rick J)
9. “Your next AI wearable will listen to everything all the time.” Discuss.
10. And finally, the 31 best gadgets from CES 2025.
11. Music class in school is a lot different than it was in my day. See? (Via Sean)
12. In copyright infringement news, Travis Scott, Future, and SZA have a problem over the song “Telekenisis.”

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BONUS BONUS: Hot dogs are now banned in North Korea. It’s supposed to be a push back on Western influences, but I fear it’s because they’ve eaten all the actual dogs in the country.