Random music news for Saturday, September 28, 2024
A Gordon Ramsey AI cooking series? Yes. Moving to music news for September 28, 2024.
- Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer has pleaded no guitar to vehicular manslaughter relating to an accident earlier this year.
- The Foo Fighters were supposed to play the Soundside Music Festival this weekend. Nope. Feel free to speculate as to why.
- Timely: How political campaigns use and misuse music.
- Are bands dying? Some people think so.
- At least one British politician is worried that AI will result in “British music being consigned to music.” Discuss.
- Netflix is upset with Canada’s online streaming rules. Here’s what they’re doing.
- On that thought, streamers don’t want to be regulated in Canada like radio.
- This producer and mix engineer wants to launch an AI version of himself.
- Mark Zuckerberg has more thoughts on AI and fair use. Oh, and Meta has smart glasses.
- The Hipgnosis elephant may be going away.
- The “All I Want for Christmas is You” plagiarism lawsuit continues. Here’s the latest.
- Here’s a neat photo essay featuring hardcore fans lining up to get into a show by their favourite artist.
- What, exactly, is going on with the be executive change/shuffle at Atlantic Music? This.
- 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.
- Fame mixing engineer Chris Lord-Alge is selling off a ton of his gear. There’s some cool stuff here. (Via Christopher)
BONUS: GPS before GPS. (Via Christopher)
BONUS BONUS: Mimes. Bloody goddamn mimes. (Via Sean)