Random music news for Saturday, June 8, 2024
Here’s something useful: The definitive guide to loading a dishwasher. You’re welcome. And here’s your definitive collection of random music news for June 8, 2024.
- RIP the Singing Beagle
- Diddy’s empire is crumbling. The signs were already there.
- Cool: “The secret Kyiv techno club that does not exist.“
- Is it possible to avoid Taylor Swift for an entire month? This guy tried an experiment.
- Toronto is hoping that Taylor Swift will inject some life into a weak tourist industry.
- No one is really sure what to make of Drake’s remix of “Hey There Delilah.” Should we laugh? Or cry?
- In other Drake news, he’s dropped US$1 million in bets for the Oilers to win the Stanley Cup and the Mavericks to take the NBA title.
- The title of the upcoming Blur documentary is ominous. What are they trying to tell us?
- If you like statistics about podcasts, download platforms, and listeners, fill your boots with this
- “Manipulated streams” and “modified audio” continue to be a big deal for some songs on Spotify and elsewhere. There’s a new study on the problem.
- Stable Audio is a program that can generate musical sounds up to 47 seconds long. This could be very good for beat makers.
- There’s an audiobook for Serj Tankian’s memoir. Listen to a sample here.
- Someone has re-ranked Apple’s Top 100 albums list. Did they do better?
- A new Beatles biopic project is a step closer to going into production.
- A music festival in Chicago is being drowned out by the sound of cicadas.
- This should be good: An oral history of The Blues Brothers.
BONUS: Robots have won Rubik’s cube. Give up, silly humans.