Random music news for Thursday, December 9, 2021
Flying back to Toronto today. Will I get tested for COVID even though I’m double-vaxxed and have a valid PCR test? No one seems to know. All I can do is wait and offer up some music news for December 9, 2021.
- Neil Young only records during a full moon. Here’s why.
- There’s a new book on the rise of indie music blogging back in the early 00’s.
- What does the metaverse mean for music creators? Maybe this.
- Queen’s Brian May had a rough time with some heart medication.
- Why are so many companies buying up song catalogues? Partly because of low interest rates.
- Why do we hate the sound of our own voice when it’s played back to us? Here’s why. (Via Mark)
- Here’s a very modern theft involving Daft Punk.
- Someone spent US$450,000 on an NFT that makes him Snoop Dogg’s virtual neighbour.
- Interesting that America doesn’t pay artists when their music gets played on the radio. (Canada does. In several ways, too.)
- November was an unusually slow month when it came to people launching new podcasts.
- A song written from a dog’s perspective? Okay…
- Robbie Shakespeare, one of the world’s great bass players, has died at age 68.
- “I’m not dead yet!”
- Ramones grave ducks.
- This is good news for metadata and music.
BONUS: How to open a can with a spoon.
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