Random music news for Thursday, December 19, 2024
Wanna know the hottest home reno project is right now? Nuclear bunkers. Now that you’re sufficiently alarmed, it’s time for music news for December 19, 2024.
- RIP Simply Red bass player Steven Lewinson. He has died at the age of 60.
- The girl who shot up that Wisconsin Christian school was apparently a fan of KMFDM. The band has had to issue a statement.
- YouTube has a new initiative that’s supposed to combat deepfakes.
- The UK Government is going to spend the next 10 weeks investigating AI and copyright.
- Meanwhile, the US government’s TICKET actt, which is supposed to eliminate junk fees on things like concert tickets. is receiving HEAVY criticism from parts of the music industry.
- Meanwhile, it’s possible that AI has already ingested all the world’s music.
- Massive Attack won’t place Coachella. “Environmental concerns,” they say.
- Meta has smart glasses. They now come with support for Shazam and language translation.
- Adele has a plagiarism accusation problem. A Brazilian judge has ordered the song “Million Years Ago” from her 25 album taken down around the world until this gets sorted.
- Venue to landlord: “Evict me and I’ll destroy the toilets!”
- Interesting: Drums ‘n’ bass streams on Spotify have increased by 94% over the last three years.
- New music from Pavement for the first time in 25 years? Soon.
- At the risk of sounding like Grampa Simpson, I agree with this guy.
- Daddy Yankee is suing his wife for stealing–wait for it–US$100 million.
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