Random music news for Thursday, April 24, 2025

The new area code is here! The new area code is here! And so is music news for April 24, 2025.

1. RIP Roy Thomas Baker, the producer for Queen (including “Bohemian Rhapsody”), The Cars, Smashing Pumpkins, Foreigner, and many more, No cause of death was given. He was 78.
2. Kanye’s neighbours called the cops because he was allegedly holding Nazi choir auditions.
3. Green Day is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
4. Metallica is talking over Toronto this weekend. Here’s a look at their pop-up store.
5. Here’s how Ozzy is training for the big Black Sabbath gig in July.
6. Trump thinks he can solve the problems with concert ticket price with an executive order? Hah!
7. YouTube turned 20 this week. Here’s how it changed TV forever.
8. And peaking of YouTube, how many video views have their been in the last 20 years. Higher. Higher. Hiiiiigher.
9. You gotta admit that this is a cool turntable design.
10. This car dealership dodged an Eminem bullet.
11. But Crumbl, the cookie people, is in big legal trouble for using copyrighted music in TikTok posts.
12. Finally, David Gilmour is going after this company that’s making fake Pink Floyd merch.
13. Cool! Joey Ramone’s isolated vocals from “Blitzkrieg Bop.” (Via Tom)
14. Etsy, the crafty marketplace, has sold Reverb, the music gear marketplace,
15. There was a survey of 8,100 UK music fans about how they view music. You can get the full report here.

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BONUS: A corgi race.