Random music news for Thursday, September 26, 2024
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- Diddy’s lawyers may pull out an interesting defense for his upcoming trials.
- I always get nervous when I hear news like this about an 84-year-old: Ringo Starr has canceled a couple of show because he has a cold.
- This is encouraging. After having to cancel all remaining shows due to Josh Homme’s health, Queens of the Stone Age have rescheduled those shows for 2025.
- Spotify has rolled out its new AI Playlist feature to Canada and the US.
- Some very rare first recordings from Bob Dylan and Madonna are going up for auction.
- If you’re following climate change activism, there have been some developments in the world of music.
- Did pharma bro Martin Shkreli surrender ALL copies he made of the Wu-Tang album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin? We’ll soon find out.
- Iron Maiden has announced that there will be NO dynamic pricing for tickets for their 2025 Run for Your Lives tour.
- This Ukranian rock star is fighting on the Russian front and then performing for the troops.
- Even though the pandemic is mostly behind us, should artists still perform virtual concerts? Maybe so.
- So it’s Journey vs…Avenged Sevenfold? Yes.
- Ann Wilson of Heart is selling this place in Florida for US$2 million.
- And here comes the official Oasis reunion tour documentary.\
- A fan of FC Barcelona? The next act Spotify will put on the players’ kit is Coldplay.
- Tommy Lee’s wife vs. the coyote.
BONUS: Johnny Cash has a new eight-foot statue in Washington DC. (Via Sean)
#15 We have coyotes where Cosmo and Robbie live – Upper Middle and Trafalger. I never walk them on the path behind our house anytime after 5 p.m. unless my wife and I are together. Live and let live but keep your head on a swivel.