Random music news for Thursday, March 13, 2025
A handheld Xbox? Soon. AI-powered NPC in PlayStation games? Soon. Music news for March 13, 2025? Now.
- Streaming 2.0 is here! Yay! One question, though: What is Streaming 2.0?
- Has Spotify killed the album? Yeah, probably. But it need not be this way.
- Spotify is going on about all the money it pays to artists in its annual Loud and Clear report. However…
- Ladies and gentlemen, The Smashing Pumpkins present Mellon Collie and the Infinfite Sadness: The Opera. Wait–wut?
- How’s this for a tribute to Winnipeg: A single from Bachman-Turner Overdrive featuring Neil Young.
- If you’re a Metallica fan, Apple Vision Pro headsets will have a Metallica “immersive experience” starting tomorrow.
- Fatboy Slim is working on a memoire.
- Billy Joel has had to cancel his tour due to a medical condition that required surgery.
- Ann Wilson of Heart is performing in a wheelchair after she had a nasty fall.
- Some 2,000 musical instruments have been donated to victims of a hurricane in North Carolina.
- Randy Blythe of Lamb of God: Not a fan of Elon Musk.
- Let’s drop this Diddy legal story in here.
- Yeah, about that X outage earlier this week: What REALLY happened?
- This probably wasn’t necessary, but oh well… (Via Rick J)
BONUS: The “Planet of Bass” is back again.
