Random music news for Thursday, August 14, 2025
Looking to up your bondage game? Let’s see what they’re doing in Japan. After you’ve learned some new knots, proceed to music news for August 14, 2025.
- Imagine owning this: Eddie Van Halen’s 1982 Frankenstrat. It’s going up for auction–and it will sell for BIG dollars.
- DSW Shoe Warehouse is another company being sued for using songs in their social media posts without permission.
- Hall and Oates have finally settled their legal fight against each other.
- Chubby Checker will FINALLY be inducted into The Rock and Hall of Fame. He won’t be attending.
- There’s a musical theatre version of Purple Rain in production. A Prince has been cast.
- If you’re buying vinyl, beware: You may not be getting all the music. (Via Rick J)
- This fictional K-pop band is having a chart moment.
- A possibility: With the rise of AI, will music producers and songwriters turn into “sound designers?”
- This music publishers’ lawsuit against Anthropic just got a little more interesting. The accusation is that Anthropic used BitTorrent to download songs to train its generative AI music program.
- At least 400 million people are now using Threads every month and 115.1 million every day. Meanwhile, X is down to just 132 million–and dropping.
- AI company Perplexity says it’s interested in buying Chrome from Google for US$34.5 billion.
- The next band to release an IMAX concert film? Depeche Mode.
- What’s this about “playlist bribery” going on with Spotify in Turkey?
- So what, exactly, is Shania Twain doing with McDonald’s? This.
- Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours has been on the album charts for more than 1,000 weeks.
BONUS: Good job, kids. VERY good job!
