Random music news for Thursday, July 18, 2024
That is one BIG guitar. (Via Rick J) More music news for July 18, 2024…
- Members of The Tragically Hip have been named honorary grand marshals of the Toronto Indy.
- Interesting: Music sales are growing at a faster rate than video and games in the UK.
- There could be a coming wave of acquisitions in the live music sphere? Maybe.
- Another woman has come forward with #MeToo accusations involving Marilyn Manson.
- You know what’s hot? K-pop dancing classes.
- And K-pop’s next target for expansion? Africa.
- Fernandes Guitars, makers of instruments for players like Kirk Hammett, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Robert Fripp has filed for bankruptcy.
- 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
- Paris-based streamer Deezer is experimenting with something it calls “Playlist with AI.”
- And YouTube is testing “AI-generated conversational radio.”
- Oh, and one more thing: Apple, Nvidia, and Anthropic have been training their AI on YouTube videos. Maybe yours.
- 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.
- Rob Halford of Judas Priest says that his prostate cancer is still in remission.
- What? K-pop can be weird.
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