Random music news for Thursday, April 18, 2024
How can you “accidentally” get divorced. Oh. Now for music news for April 18, 2024.
- Has Taylor Swift’s new album leaked? Maybe. Swifties are reacting to that.
- Meanwhile, there’s been a big scam involving Tay-Tay tickets in the UK.
- Courtney Love finds Taylor Swift “boring.” Cue the Swifty rage.
- There may be a class action suit against Live Nation as soon as next month.
- Lana Del Rey has tour manager problems.
- Quebec wants to reign in ticket resellers. Good luck, but this will be hard.
- No more Childish Gambino. Donald Glover is retiring that part of his career.
- Another study on pop music: It’s getting slower, angrier, and more repetitive.
- What was the best-produced album of all time? Jeff Lynne has an opinion. (Via Christopher)
- Red Lobster used AI to create songs about its Chedder Bay Biscuits. There’s side A and side B.
- Is your kid constantly destroying headphones? Then you may want to look at these.
- It was good to be a Beatle back in the day. See?
- Speaking of The Beatles, Disney+ will soon start streaming the original non-Peter Jackson version of Let it Be. (Via Rick)
- Tool vinyl, coming soon. (Rick again)
- Nature is now official a musician. Here’s what that means.
BONUS: In the late 50s and early 60s, the Kuba Komet was the height of home audio-video entertainment. It cost US$1,260, the equivalent of US$13,000 today. Cool? (One more from Rick J)