Random music news for Saturday, October 19, 2024
A live action film based on the View-Master? (IYKYK) Yes. Let’s view some music news for October 19, 2024.
- The Australian government is going after dynamic pricing of concert tickets.
- Why can’t Spotify do anything about fake albums and the fraud that results?
- Apple Music has signed a BIG deal with a Chinese company.
- The Warped Tour will back in 2025 but only for three cities: Washington DC, Long Beach CA, and Orlando FL.
- Did you see that Talking Heads reunited? Okay, it was to read clues about the bands on Jeopardy, but still…
- More idiot concert fan behavior: Nick Jonas was forced offstage by some moron with a laser pointer.
- Yes, Mariah Carey recorded a grunge album in secret back in the 90s. She’s hoping to release it one day.
- An all-Drake-all-the-time radio station? Yes. It’s happening in Scranton, Pennsylvania. I’ll bet it’s a hit at Dunder Mifflin.
- This looks like a really cool alt-rock festival.
- Toronto is gearing up for Taylor Swift’s visit to the city next month with an event called “Taylorgate.” This is…wild.
- Speaking of Tay-Tay, she’s self-publishing a book. This has traditional publishers worried.
- 2 Live Crew is getting their songs back. Here’s why this matters.
- I have some of this 6G speed, please. Almost 1TB a second! That’s more than 9,000x the speed of the best 5G.
- Wait: David Bowie kept Picasso and Matisse paintings in his car?
- First it was Slayer. Now Avenged Sevenfold has their own virtual museum.
BONUS: Numeris, the company that measures radio listening in Canada says that 84% of Canadians over the age of 18 listen to radio every week. That’s about the same level as a year earlier. Here’s a handy chart of how radio formats line up in the country.
