Random music news for Thursday, May 20, 2021
- If you’re an REM fan, you’ll want this new demo reissue.
- Spotify will start auto-transcribing podcasts over the next few weeks.
- And Spotify is getting into the business of livestreaming.
- Coldplay wants to use emojis in their song titles. The streaming platforms said “no.”
- Where are all the Apple Stores? Here.
- The music industry helped the Democrats win Georgia. Here’s how.
- No Iceland at Eurovision this year. The singer tested positive for COVID.
- Johnny Lydon hard to work with? Really? What a shock.
- Talinda Bennington, widow of Chester, was on with Anderson Cooper the other night talking about suicide.
- Instagram has added merch sales opportunities–for some artists.
- MC Kevin, a Brazilian music star, fell to his death from a fifth-story hotel balcony trying to avoid his wife so she wouldn’t find out he was having a threesome.
- William Shatner: Still going at 90.
- This Boney M track from 1978 is suddenly back thanks to TikTok.
- Cher: The biopic.
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