Random Music News for Thursday, February 11, 2016
This is the fifteenth anniversary of the Anna Kournikova virus. And now, the music news.
- The Pirate Bay vs. Netflix: this will get weird. (Via Tom)
- Another look at the music charts and how they’ve been broken by the RIAA and YouTube.
- Here’s a music industry biography that comes highly recommended. Yes, it’s by one of the Pointer Sisters, but don’t let that dissuade you.
- Hitmaker Max Martin is now a Polar Prize laureate.
- Today’s lesson in karma: a bat shit on Kelly Osbourne’s head. Sins of the father?
- The Grammys are shaping up to be just one big memorial this year.
- Netflix has a new animated series coming featuring bugs and Beatles songs.
- Washington DC’s legendary 9:30 Club will soon have its own PBS show.
- David Bowie would have been a grandfather very soon had he lived.
- Random man walking his dog turns out to be Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour.
- The silent secret sunrise dance in South Africa.
- I know you’ve been dying to know how much awards show hosts gets paid. Here’s a taste.
- Sly Stone FINALLY gets millions of royalties that were due to him.
- Yeah, that’s artwork for Drake’s new album all over Toronto. Just in time for the NBA All-Star game, of course.
- Just shut up, Ted Nugent.