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