Random music news for Saturday, November 8, 2025
Want an AI assistant wrapped around your finger? You can. Literally. Music news for November 8, 2025, is not quite that bendy.
- An ex-manager of Guns N’ Roses is suing the band for them blocking his memoir.
- Rapper Royce Da 5’9″ has been diagnosed with lingual dystonia. It’s a neurological condition that interferes with talking and single.
- To the shock of absolutely no one, Morrissey has canceled all his concert dates in South America. Why would any promoter work with him?
- The first Canadian radio station has flipped to all-Christmas music–and they did it on Halloween.
- I’ve been saying this about radio for years.
- Yo Gabba Gabba has a new Christmas album featuring members of My Chemical Romance, Devo, and more.
- Folk legend Joan Baez wrote a poem to Donald Trump. It’s not flattering.
- One of Canada’s most important campus radio stations needs saving. Here’s the story.
- Toronto Metropolitan University has been named as one of Billboard’s best music business schools.
- It’s tough enough to get into music journalism. Now comes the AI “workslop” taking the place of human writers.
- If you use Shazam on your iPhone, it just got a makeover.
- It can take a long time for a song to go viral. Just ask Sabaton.
- Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi is going to auction off one of his guitars to raise money for cancer research.
- Is this what comes after Auto Tune? Jeebus, save us.
BONUS: Oh, HELL no!
