Random music news for Saturday, May 3, 2025
You know how some businesses incorporate puns into their name? Someone is now keeping track of them. As for music news for May 3, 2025…
- Hey, PM Mark Carney! The Canadian music industry has some asks of you.
- If you’re under the mistaken impression that radio is dead, you need to read this and this.
- Speaking of radio, it’s terribly sad to see what Trump did to Voice of America. The frequencies have been taken over by Russia and others.
- Still with radio, one of the blocks to making Daylight Saving Time permanent is religious broadcasters. Here’s why.
- Canadian radio and media company Stingray has launched a deal with a robotaxi company called Zoox. They will supply music for riders via ZooxFM.
- Interesting. We may get more earworms during stressful times. This needs to be studied.
- Fun fact: Coldplay performed a stadium gig in Ahmedabad, India, that attracted 222,000 fans.
- Here’s an excellent deconstruction of the issue of streaming fraud.
- About 1.5 Americans now work as “digital creators” or, as we used to call them, “influencers.”
- Threads now has 350 million monthly users. Elmo and X have to be concerned.
- Anyone interested in a Taco Bell playlist?
- Country music is really having a moment in the UK.
- Arcade Fire is mounting a comeback after frontman Win Butler’s #MeToo problems. Shows may be sold out but the fanbase is deeply divided.
- All the controversies involved the sale of Canadian Music Week and its transition into Departure have been resolved. The conference starts in Toronto on Tuesday.
- What has Sheryl Crow been up to? Oh.
