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Random music news for Thursday, July 18, 2024

That is one BIG guitar. (Via Rick J) More music news for July 18, 2024…

  1. Members of The Tragically Hip have been named honorary grand marshals of the Toronto Indy.
  2. Interesting: Music sales are growing at a faster rate than video and games in the UK.
  3. There could be a coming wave of acquisitions in the live music sphere? Maybe.
  4. Another woman has come forward with #MeToo accusations involving Marilyn Manson.
  5. You know what’s hot? K-pop dancing classes.
  6. And K-pop’s next target for expansion? Africa.
  7. Fernandes Guitars, makers of instruments for players like Kirk Hammett, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Robert Fripp has filed for bankruptcy.
  8. An Australian senator–a Trump fan–wants Tenacious D deported immediately after they said something he didn’t like about Trump. The concert was postponed, too
  9. Paris-based streamer Deezer is experimenting with something it calls “Playlist with AI.”
  10. And YouTube is testing “AI-generated conversational radio.”
  11. Oh, and one more thing: Apple, Nvidia, and Anthropic have been training their AI on YouTube videos. Maybe yours.
  12. Finally, Disney is working with a company called Audioshake which uses AI to separate songs into stems. Soon your kid will be able to sing solo to the music from Frozen.
  13. Rob Halford of Judas Priest says that his prostate cancer is still in remission.
  14. What? K-pop can be weird.

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