Random music news for Saturday, January 4, 2025
Just two more days before Divorce Day, the day of the year divorce lawyers get a ton of business. Couples hang on through Christmas and then file papers the first Monday back to work. You’ve got less than 48 hours to work out your differences. Meanwhile, here’s music news for January 4, 2025.
- Indie labels are under increasing pressure. This could mean very bad news for new music. Here’s why.
- There may be a very troubling music royalty embezzlement situation in the UK.
- This is the final interview with Canadian music journalist David Farrell who died on December 19.
- Now we hear that Liam Payne died while trying to escape from his hotel room over the balcony.
- Want to avoid dementia? Listen to more music.
- It went like this. (a) Trump: “Ban TikTok!” (b) TikTok visits Trump and political donations come from somwhere, and (c) Trump: “TikTok’s not so bad.” See how it works?
- If you buy an LG smart TV, you’ll get an in-house streaming and podcast service with it.
- VR and MR headsets saw shipments rise 8.8% in 2024. That translates into 9.6 million units. I’m still waiting for prices to come down.
- Alice Cooper has been sober for a long time, so if he wants to get into the beverage business, it has to be a non-alcoholic cocktail.
- British rapper Stormzy has been banned from driving for nine months for using his phone while driving his Rolls-Royce.
- So what to Dylanologists think of Timothée Chalamet and the biopic A Complete Unknown? Let’s find out.
- Finally, let’s bet on this: Will it be Threads of Bluesky to overtake Twitter/X?
BONUS: The spiciest chicken sandwich EVER!
