Random music news for Thursday, August 1, 2019
On this day in 1981–12:01 am to be exact–MTV started broadcasting. As for music news that’s a little more current, here’s what’s happening on August 1, 2019.
- This woman from Vancouver Island used Metallica to fend off a cougar. It worked fine.
- INXS guitarist Tim Farriss is suing a boat rental company after an accident severed his finger, leaving him unable to play anything but the most basic guitar chords.
- A Cardi B concert in Tennessee was canceled 30 minutes before showtime because of an unspecified security threat. It’s been rescheduled. To September 11.
- Another look at what might lie beyond streaming.
- Spotify says it now has 108 million paying subscribers and monthly active users of 232 million.
- Here’s a timeline of how everything went wrong for Woodstock 50.
- But here’s a victory for them: Woodstock Weed.
- How did Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” set the record for the most weeks at #1? Like this.
- Do the record labels want physical product and record stores to fail so they can switch entirely to streaming? Maybe.
- L7 is going to take legal action against the now-defunct PledgeMusic.
- A documentary on Canadian producer/hitmaker David Foster will debut at TIFF.
- This week’s installment of Often Forgotten Canadian Hard Rock/Metal Bands is all about Sword.
- Well, that’s gotta hurt.
- The ex-husband of Frances Bean Cobain (daughter of Kurt and Courtney was sent for a psych evaluation ahead of a trial involving an alleged kidnapping and Kurt’s famous “Unplugged” guitar.
- Chuck D is suing his record label, saying they screwed him out of royalties.
- Lisa Marie Presley is promising some bombshell stories in her new book. Remember that she was once married to Michael Jackson.