Random music news for Saturday, March 28, 2020
How will this COVID-19 nonsense finally end? Here are some predictions. One you’re finished, come back for music news for March 28, 2020.
- Coronavirus update 1: You go right ahead, MIA.
- Coronavirus update 2: A song for the self-isolating.
- Coronavirus update 3: The US is offering some help to musicians.
- Coronavirus update 4: With some London streets closed, workers have taken the opportunity to refurbish the famous Abbey Road crosswalk.
- Coronavirus update 5: David Coverdale’s new song, “Coronavirus Blues.”
- Coronavirus update 6: Disturbed “Down with the Sickness” has spiked in sales and streams.
- Coronavirus update 7: R Kelly wants out of jail because he’s afraid of getting COVID-19.
- Coronavirus update 8: NYC’s Governor’s Ball has been canceled.
- Coronavirus update 9: Liam Gallagher says that an Oasis reunion to benefit the NHS will go ahead with or without Noel.
- Coronavirus update 10: Bruno Mars made a US$1 million donation to help laid off workers in Las Vegas.
- Coronavirus update 11: Manu Dibango, a great African jazz musician, was felled by COVID-19. He was 86.
- Coronavirus update 12: Jackson Browne is recovering in hospital after testing positive.
- Coronavirus update 13: Morrissey fans are having fun with his lyrics.
- Coronavirus update 14: Out of work musicians and actors have a new place to turn in Toronto.
- Coronavirus update 15: The singing surgeon has gone viral (but in the old-fashioned non-deadly social media way.)
- Here are my weekly music picks for GlobalNews.ca.
- Weird record alert: Record Without a Cover (1985).
- Radio: Still very much a thing. See?
- This is a cool new Marshall Bluetooth speaker.
- Music experts vs. the sound of car exhaust: This is interesting. (Via Walter)
- Bored? Try using your melon(s). (Via Tom)
