Random music news for Thursday, August 13, 2020
I apologize for the dearth of postings yesterday but the website was feeling a little ill. All better in time for delivering music news for August 13, 2020.
- Coronavirus update 1: Guitarist Trini Lopez has died of COVID-19 complications.
- Coronavirus update 2: Are VIP boxes like these the future of live concerts?
- Coronavirus update 3: Sam Fender says he played the “world’s first socially-distanced concert” in front of 2500 people.
- Coronavirus update 4: Dumb Smash Mouth here and here.
- Coronavirus update 5: We’re running out of media.
- The guys in Tool are free agents with no formal label affiliations. This might result in a quarantine EP.
- Amazon is now getting into the podcast game.
- Checking with Kanye’s presidential campaign, it appears he’s not polling well.
- Drake’s cannabis play seems to have run into trouble.
- Anyone else see the Geddy Lee cutout behind home plate for the Blue Jays’ game?
- Muse goes IMAX.
- It’s fun to watch conservatives flip out over Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP.” Check it out here, here, and here.
- Here’s the real reason Donald Trump wants to ban TikTok.
- Mick Jagger and Keef have adopted part of an ocean.
- Three people have been charged with trying to bribe and threaten some of R. Kelly’s victims.
