Random music news for Saturday, November 1, 2025
Now THIS is what AI is good for! More of this, please. Well, some of it, anyway. And here’s more music news for November 1, 2025/
- This is interesting: For the first time since 1990–35 years!–there are no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100 top 40. Discuss.
- Maybe this has something to do with something: A new survey on music listening habits.
- Wait: A pro-Palestinian group is pushing for a boycott of the upcoming Radiohead tour even though the band has spoken out against Israel? What’s going on?
- Here’s a problem: German neo-Nazi rappers and their hate speech.
- How have the Rush rehearsals been going? Geddy Lee has this behind-the-scenes look.
- Drake wants to revive the “Not Like Us” lawsuit.
- Arcade Fire’s Régine Chassagne and Win Butler, married for 22 years, are separating.
- A Paul McCartney photo exhibit is coming to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
- A good question: Why do Japanese websites look so different?
- Gee, people are using Meta Ray-Ban glasses to film and harass massage workers? What a shock.
- Sora AI’s text-to-video app is now available pretty much everywhere, but…
- Meta says that Threads now has 150 million daily users.
- The Special Olympics vs. Kid Rock: You can probably guess who’s in the wrong here. Yeah.
- Limp Bizkit proves once again that death is good for business.
- Performers throwing a full can of beer into the crowd and causing injuries is bad for business.
BONUS: This sort of redefines street music, doesn’t it?
