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Random music news for Saturday, September 28, 2024

A Gordon Ramsey AI cooking series? Yes. Moving to music news for September 28, 2024.

  1. Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer has pleaded no guitar to vehicular manslaughter relating to an accident earlier this year.
  2. The Foo Fighters were supposed to play the Soundside Music Festival this weekend. Nope. Feel free to speculate as to why.
  3. Timely: How political campaigns use and misuse music.
  4. Are bands dying? Some people think so.
  5. At least one British politician is worried that AI will result in “British music being consigned to music.” Discuss.
  6. Netflix is upset with Canada’s online streaming rules. Here’s what they’re doing.
  7. On that thought, streamers don’t want to be regulated in Canada like radio.
  8. This producer and mix engineer wants to launch an AI version of himself.
  9. Mark Zuckerberg has more thoughts on AI and fair use. Oh, and Meta has smart glasses.
  10. The Hipgnosis elephant may be going away.
  11. The “All I Want for Christmas is You” plagiarism lawsuit continues. Here’s the latest.
  12. Here’s a neat photo essay featuring hardcore fans lining up to get into a show by their favourite artist.
  13. What, exactly, is going on with the be executive change/shuffle at Atlantic Music? This.
  14. How about an hour of nothing but sometimes strange covers of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” and New Order’s “Blue Monday?” Okay.
  15. Fame mixing engineer Chris Lord-Alge is selling off a ton of his gear. There’s some cool stuff here. (Via Christopher)

More music news? Look here.

BONUS: GPS before GPS. (Via Christopher)

BONUS BONUS: Mimes. Bloody goddamn mimes. (Via Sean)

Alan Cross

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