Random music news for Thursday, May 29, 2025
What’s Labubus? Oh, GAWD! NO! Best stick to music news for May, 29, 2025
- Cool! A radio show about radio!
- The first-ever FM radio transmitter lives!
- Wait: How does the future online shopping depend on AI and music? Oh.
- Spotify says it now has 100 million paying subscribers in Europe.
- “Live Nation is devouring live music.” Discuss.
- ABBA’s Voyage avatar show in London has been going for three years now and there’s no end in sight.
- The worst people at gigs are the kids with their phones, right? Nope. It’s these people.
- The King of Sweden gave Queen an award.
- Ye and Bianca are still together. She’s still going naked out in public.
- How’s this for a segue? “How music executives are caring for their mental health.”
- Meanwhile, country start Dierks Bentley has created The Broken Branches Fund to help with mental health issues in Nashville.
- This is fun: Phil Collins’ son Nic (also a drummer) tries to be Neil Peart. (Via Rick J)
- A startup called Lickd wants to shake up how artists get sync deals with big brands.
- On that topic, another music licensing company has got some heavy hitters for investors.
- Apple has acquired a video game studio.
BONUS: The beatboxing nun of Brazil.
