Random music news for Saturday, July 22, 2023
Pandas at play. This will make you smile. So will music news for July 22, 2023–I hope.
- Are you a music superfan? If you are, you’re part of 15% of the population.
- This a brutal parody of Jason Aldeen’s “Try That in a Small Town.”
- More music organizations have come out demanding curbs on AI.
- Can we make any predictions about the future of music? This guy says “Not really.”
- This guy won £148 million in a lottery and used it to stage a music festival. Then his neighbours objected to the potential noise. with two weeks to go.
- So what do we think of the soundtrack for the Barbie movie? Here’s a review.
- Queen’s Brian May bought himself a £25 million birthday present.
- Noel Gallagher’s sh*tlist now features Adele.
- Have you heard the story of Mort Garson, the Canadian electronic music pioneer who composed moon landing music? (Via Andrew)
- If you’re planning to launch a podcast, you might want to try the Podcast Predictor first.
- Here come the AI-written news articles, ready or not.
- Music streamer Deezer has just launched a newversion of its app designed just for the car.
- Want some interesting music visuals? Go here.
- No pants?
- Gone all Barbie yet over the movie? Here are a bunch of songs Ryan Gosling has written.
- Good weekend listening: An eight-part series on the rise and fall of Britpop.
- Rick Astley is going to give this up.
- And Matt Bellamy is selling this house in Malibu.
- John Hinckley, the man who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan, has a new album.
BONUS: This guy may be the only person in the universe to never have heard The Killers’ “Mr. Brightside.” And yet…