Random music news for Saturday, October 21, 2023
This guy wants to build a house. He’s going to spend US$1 billion on it. Interest rates? What interest rates? The rich are not like you and me. Meanwhile, we can all enjoy music news for October, 21, 2023–for free, too.
- A new mobile ticketing platform is coming to Canada. Introducing Dice.
- Bruce Springsteen is going to have a university building named after him.
- Tommy Lee found a dildo buried on his new property. You ready that correctly.
- According to AI, the best place for a musician to live is…Liverpool.
- This AI program can apparently diagnose people for diabetes just by listening to a 10-second voice recording of the patient.
- And YouTube is said to be working on a new AI tool that will allow creators to use generate artists’ voices.
- Here’s more on the dumb, shortsighted vote to defund CHUO, the campus station at the University of Ottawa.
- Gen Z is a heavy user of streaming. This demo streamed 560 billion songs just on Spotify during the first half of 2023.
- Meanwhile, a streaming service called Marine Snow is offering equity to both artists and listeners.
- This rapper’s lawyer used AI to write a legal argument. It didn’t turn out well.
- A Sly Stone memoir? This should be interesting.
- Here’s an interview with super radio fan Toronto Mike’d.
- Expect to see more marketing from TikTok. Here’s what they plan to do.
- The originator of headbanging: discuss.
- The Creed reunion continues to get a big boost thanks to the Texas Rangers playoff run.
- Ronnie Woods of The Stones is selling this place in London. Fancy making an offer?
BONUS: Aliens? Planets? Space?
BONUS BONUS: Snoop on Family Feud (via Tom)