Random Music News for Saturday, May 31, 2025.

The hottest trend in plastic surgery? Mar-A-Lago Face. I wish I was making this up. And I didn’t make up any of music news for May 31, 2025.

1. Smokey Robinson has answered those allegations of sexual assault laid by some employees.
2. The Download Festival seems to have stepped in it with this year’s bathroom policy as it pertains to trans artists and fans.
3. There’s a new Nova Festival memorial site that recognizes the 364 festivalgoers killed in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack.
4. Zak Starkey had more to say about being “retired” from The Who.
5. If you’re a serious musician and songwriter, you’ll need a publishing deal. Here’s the latest on how to do that in Canada.
6. When Bono had his heart issues in 2016, he acquired an addiction–but not to drugs of any sort.
7. Meanwhile, Bono has this update on the next U2 album.
8. Apple is changing the way they name their operating systems.
9. Here’s an update on Ozzy and his health as the final Black Sabbath show approaches.
10. Kings of Leon has canceled some UK and European shows because Caleb Followill had some kind of “freak accident.”
11. Rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again has been pardoned of his federal weapons charges by, yes, Donald Trump.
12. A group of artists are pushing the UK PM to do something about the suffering in Gaza.
13. Metallica’s black album has now officially sold 20 million copies in the US alone. Worldwide, the number is somewhere around 31 million.
14. Let it GO, Dave Mustaine!
15. This company wants to bring back the cassette boombox. Here’s what they’re selling.

BONUS: Tell me again how climate change isn’t real and then look at this.