Random music news for Thursday, June 12, 2025
In Texas, you can now legally shoot sheep from a helicopter for sport. ‘Murica. As for music news for June 12, 2025…
- Tom Morello has been attending ICE protests in LA.
- First, he was Kanye West. Then he was Ye. Now he’s apparently changed his legal name to Ye Ye. This is not a joke.
- Why? This recording should never have been made in the first place. And now it’s being reissued? (Family Guy did a whole bit on this–and they weren’t wrong.)
- There’s a new awareness-raising album called Democracy Forward. Michael Stipe is a part of it.
- K-pop fans prepare for a meltdown as two members of BTS are discharged after their compulsory military service.
- Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield has a band made up of retired spacemen. Learn about them here.
- “We are in an information crisis.” Here’s what that means.
- AI is a threat to music–or is it? Discuss,
- R Kelly is having a problem with prison guards and the Aryan Brotherhood.
- Gen Z is going to a lot of concerts. For some reason, though, Gen Z females are going to more gigs than males.
- NYC is conducting a census of all the recording studios in the city. The goal is to determine studios’ economic impact.
- There’s a raffle for a guitar pick once used by Kurt Cobain. It once sold at auction for US$14,000.
- Here’s an update on the Snoop Dogg biopic.
- Zimmy? Is that you?
- Can Katy Perry predict a recession? Maybe.
BONUS: Nice one, kids! (Via Rick J)
