Random music news for Thursday, March 10, 2022

I love this “let’s call Russia and tell them what’s really going on” initiative launched in Lithuania. I hope it works. And now some music news for March 10, 2022.

1. Last year was the biggest year ever for the US recorded music industry with revenues of US$15 billion.
2. Travis Scott plans to donate US$5 million for community initiatives, including finding “tech-driven solutions for event safety.”
3. Speaking of Scott and the Astroworld disaster, what’s been done to ensure crowd safety since all that went down? Read this.
4. Bob Dylan has written a new book. The Philosophy of Modern Song will be out later this year.
5. Why would anyone do this to their mom?
6. LimeWire is back–but not as a way to illegally download music.
7. BTS Tamagotchis? Yes.
8. Plants and synthesizers together at last.
9. TikTok now has its own music distribution platform. It’s called SoundOn.
10. There’s an opening for a bass player with The Deftones.
11. RIP Econoline Crush bass player David “Ziggy” Sigmund.
12. David Lee Roth’s skincare line has gone out of business.
13. A fan of NASCAR? Watch this weekend’s race in Phoenix for a car sponsored by Ghost.
14. So how do we really feel about Dolby ATMOS tracks on Apple Music?
15. Marianne Faithfull has been moved into a personal care home. She had a very rough time with COVID, suffers from empheysema, and has arthritis.

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BONUS: A pig translator? What’s porcine for “pork chops?”