Random music news for Thursday, February 6, 2020
Wow. Some people, huh? Where have you been, lady? Let’s divert from that to music news for February 6, 2020.
- Juice WRLD may be dead, but his family is facing a US$300 million copyright infringement lawsuit.
- Dumb idea, musician. REALLY dumb idea.
- Spotify says it now was 124 million premium subscribers and is growing by 3 million a month. Yet the company still lost CAD$276 million.
- Radio: Still magical. And free. And profitable.
- Waking up to a piercing alarm clock is a bad idea. Here are five tunes that are much better to wake up to.
- In case you missed it, Jay Z and Beyonce stayed in their seats for the national anthem at the Super Bowl. Anyone buy their explanation?
- In the not-too-distance future, we’ll have 8K video on our mobile phones.
- And the backroom drama at the Grammys just keeps going and going and going…
- Marianne Faithful is getting a biopic.
- A fun question: What would the sun sound like if we could hear it?
- Last year was the year of pop music. I think.
- Tom Wilson (Junkhouse, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, etc.) has launched a scholarship for indigenous youth at McMaster University.
- The Toronto Star’s entertainment section has been decimated. This is not good.
- What a surprise: Drake is now in the weed business.
- An air purifier for your headphones?
- John Mellencamp has shot a video ad in support of presidential candidate John Bloomberg.
- This hot Ugandan rapper is just eight years old.
