Random music news for Thursday, April 21, 2022
As you read this, I’m somewhere between Singapore and Toronto connecting through Doha. I have no idea what time it is. I’m not even sure that I’m filing music news for April 21, 2022. But let’s go with it, okay?
- Here’s a shock: As mask mandates fall away, more touring performers are postponing shows because they’ve got COVID.
- A good conversation with Merck Mercuriadis about buying up song catalogues.
- We now have the first bioplastic vinyl record.
- The music industry term “master recording” is deemed racist.
- There’s a movement in the UK to get the government to recognize the power of music when it comes to health.
- There’s a Rush tribute EP coming for Record Store next week.
- Blur, “Song 2,” take 2. (Via Sean)
- How’s your internet slang?
- I can now buy royalties in what?
- “Why Is So Much Current Music About Nothing But Bullshit?” Discuss.
- The “Netflixification of radio?” What’s that? This.
- Can sound waves eliminate liver cancer? Maybe.
- Judas Priest finally goes biblical–well, in a Rob Halford sense, anyway.
- Well, that’s one way to use Lego.
BONUS: Do you have “poster’s disease?”