Random music news for Thursday, October 30, 2025
Trump tried to explain water to the Navy. He got it wrong, of course. Moving to music news for October 30, 2025…
- Artists continue to pull their music from Spotify over CEO’s Daniel Ek’s investments in defence companies and the running of ICE recruitment ads on the program.
- What does “indie music” mean today? Let’s explore that.
- Ambient music is having a moment again. Here’s why.
- Meanwhile, rock music is thriving in the age of streaming. Here’s why that’s happening.
- Kim Thayil of Soundgarden has a memoir coming. It’s entitled A Screaming Life: Into the Superunknown with Soundgarden and Beyond.
- The website that’s “reshaping live music one set list at a time.”
- Sora 2 is a new thing from OpenAI. If you’re a musician, here’s what you should know.
- Have you tried “ghost posts” on Threads?
- Ah. So Dave Matthews is the head of Antifa.
- “Classical Britpop?” Yes.
- Concert cancelations in Canada are on the rise. Let’s look at that.
- Travis Scott set some concert attendance records in India.
- It looks like we’ll be hearing about the Justin Trudeau-Kay Perry romance for a while.
- Shocking: Elon Musk thinks Wikipedia has a left-wing bias, so he’s launching “Grokepedia” which is parroting right-wing talking points. But it has been copying material directly from, yes, Wikipedia.
- Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s 1962 novelty hit, “The Monster Mash” is going to be turned into an animated movie.
BONUS: Would you stand for a fridge that plays ads? Nope.
