Random music news for Thursday, August 20, 2020
Because we can never get enough of The Simpsons’ steamed hams. There should be an InstaPot update, if you ask me. Now on to music news for August 20, 2020.
- Coronavirus update 1: Marc Almond of Soft Cell was worried his case of COVID-19 would damage his voice.
- Coronavirus update 2: Pirate streaming is booming during the pandemic.
- Coronavirus update 3: Three trends from the plague that will stay.
- Coronavirus update 4: What time does your “audio day” start? In the age of the pandemic, it could be on an average of 75 minutes later than usual.
- Coronavirus update 5: Scotland has banned music in bars because it can lead to people leaning in too close to talk.
- Gene Simmons is selling his place in Hollywood.
- Time for another Joe Strummer tribute.
- Elevator music lives!
- You’ll never guess what genre of music is booming when it comes to streaming by younger listeners. Classical music.
- NME Asia is now live.
- Netflix may soon allow subscribers to put shows and movies on shuffle.
- No, Nick Cave is not working with Kanye West on music.
- Another plea for including metadata in song files. And to do it properly.
- Now this is a different kind of guitar.
- No, streaming hasn’t killed radio. Still.
