Random music news for Thursday, June 5, 2025

Is this the guy behind Ukraine’s spectacular wipeout of $7 billion worth of Russian military hardware last weekend? Genius. As for music news for June 5, 2025, no drones and exploding pre-fab houses were involved.

1. Eminem is going after Meta for copyright infringement by Facebook and Instagram.
2. Music creators are extremely pissed off that major record labels are negotiating licensing deals with AI companies without their input. That also happened when the majors negotiated with streamers without asking musicians.
3. On that note, “AI Isn’t Your Savior, It’s Your Replacement. And in the Music Industry, We’re Racing to Nowhere.” Discuss.
4. Building on that is this story on AI, bot farms, and unwitting indie victims.
5. “Music is too important to be left to the marketplace.” Discuss.
6. The Tragically Hip were big winners at the Canadian Screen Awards.
7. The acclaimed doc Becoming Led Zeppelin will start streaming on Netflix June 7.
8. This makes me happy. Joe Rogan fans are livid after Bono appeared on the podcast.
9. Ozzy and his family are planning to attend a Comic Con event in the UK. I guess he’s feeling better.
10. Collective Soul will get the documentary treatment on July 8. Here’s a trailer for Give Me a Word: The Collective Soul Story.
11. After K-pop and J-pop, there’s P-pop.
12. There’s a call in the UK for NDAs to be banned in the music industry to cut down on the industry’s “culture of misogyny.”
13. This company is raising money to buy the catalogues of music producers.
14. Since Taylor Swift acquired her master recordings, Spotify streams for those albums have spiked up to 430% per song. Why? Because now that Taylor owns them outright, it’s okay to stream them. The boycott is over.
15. Vinyl Me, a vinyl subscription service, is being relaunched after financial issues. It has a new owner.

BONUS: This is sad and scary. Jonathan Joss, the voice actor best known for his work on King of the Hill as John Redcorn–and a show about to be rebooted–was shot and killed by his neighbour on Sunday. It looks like a hate crime.