Random music news for Saturday, July 26, 2025

Here’s a job for AI: Growing mushrooms. Leave me to compile music news for July 26, 2025.

Hard rock and metal are having a good run this summer when it comes to streaming. Just wait until the Ozzy/Sabbath numbers are reported.
An AI-generated song briefly turned up on Toto’s Spotify page. It’s gone now, but…
“How GenAI music is hacking the system–and getting paid.” Discuss.
Trump doesn’t understand AI. Did you think he would?
The Dropkick Murphys were supposed to play a punk festival. Then they found the organizer donated to Trump. Buh-bye!
Kanye’s former assistant is in hiding because she fears retribution as a result of her lawsuit.
Fifty years ago, someone stole Kim Mitchell’s guitar. His biographer is on a mission to get it back.
Festival d’été de Québec is accused of not paying all the licensing fees it’s supposed to.
When Coldplay was in Toronto earlier this month, Chris Martin took a Second City improve class.
There’s now a MuchMusic Rewind channel on YouTube that features interviews from over the decades.
Nick Cave donated thousands of books to a charity book shop.
Three stills have been released from the upcoming Spinal Tap II. Here they are.
Here’s a new job: “AI Music Designer.”
American guitarists could soon pay more for strings. Why? Trump tariffs.
Another group has withdrawn its music from Spotify over the platform’s connection to military hardware,