Random music news for Saturday, November 2, 2024
Here’s your chance to buy Captain Kirk’s actual phaser from Star Trek: TOS. But it’ll sell at auction for at least US$100,000. Music news for November 2, 2024, is much more reasonably priced.
- Why are concert ticket prices still going up 10% a year post-pandemic? It depends whom you ask.
- Here’s a breakdown of why bands are finding it so hard to tour.
- Sarah McLachlan had to cancel her Canadian tour because of a bad bout of laryingitis.
- Is MTV Canada shutting down at the end of the year? That’s the story. Just as well. How many repeats of Ridiculousness does one nation need?
- Kanye’s neighbours in Beverly Hills are fed up with him. Here’s his latest scheme.
- For the first time in Coldplay’s history, they had to play a gig down one member.
- Spare a thought for Blur drummer and his terminally ill (now deceased) wife. Here’s what I mean.
- Billy Corgan’s mother-in-law was visiting his tea shop in Chicago when a car drove through the front door.
- The next entrant in the music streaming space is…Nintendo? Yep.
- Threads continues to be a growing competitor to Leon Mush’s Twitter (I will never call it X). It now has 275 million monthly users. And it’s making money. A lot of it, too.
- Good Canada ban TikTok like the US wants to? Well…
- Amazon Alex was supposed to have new AI capabilities by now. That’s all stuck in the lab.
- This is sobering: Culture is vanishing on the internet.
- Gift idea! A Pet Shop Boys hand-crafted, 22-karat gold-plated fine bone china tea set.
- A lot of Gordon Lightfoot’s possessions are going up for auction.
BONUS: How surface noise from vinyl means something. (Via Peter)
