Random music news for Thursday, June 30, 2022
Who’s rocket was this? No one knows. I do know something about music news for June 30, 2022, though.
- R Kelly will be spending the next 30 years in jail.
- This Nine Inch Nails fan went after someone with some brass knuckles.
- Drake just sold his YOLO mansion in California for US$3 million under asking. But don’t cry for him because…
- …one in every 60 music streams in the US last week was Drake. (The raw number of Drake streams was 257.1 million. In a week.)
- Streaming is the future of music. (As if we didn’t know that already.)
- The US has seized some music piracy domains that were being used in Brazil.
- PJ Harvey has written a novel.
- The weirdness of Avril Lavigne’s clone TikTok.
- Like sound effects? Then you’ll find this to be a lot of fun.
- Back to real estate: Bon Jovi sold his NYC penthouse for US$22 million.
- Wanna rent Dolly Parton’s tour bus? You can!
- All the Weezer GIFs you could ever want in one place.
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club now has their own whisky. They call it Motor Oil.
- What does radio know about Gen Z? Not enough, apparently.
- Here’s one way to deal with the haters.
- And this was…odd. It’s Britney Spears “Toxic” with death metal vocals. By a choir.
BONUS: Monster truck. Swamp. Fail.
re #9 and sound effects
Erasure has a pretty cool newsletter and if you like any of the works done by Andy, Vince et al, you might find some of their various releases of sounds interesting. I don’t pay attention to how often they get mentioned in the newsletter, I just know that I’ve got a number of zip files downloaded from their library and various .zip files over the years.