Random Music News for Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Back on this day in 1967, Robert Ebert filed his first movie review for the Chicago Sun-Times.
- What’s with the lack of women when it comes to festival lineups?
- Bob Geldof is getting married again. And the planned location is a bit…weird.
- Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich spent £30,000 to get some boy band called McBusted to play his daughter’s 18th birthday party.
- The Prodigy: still doing well in Britain.
- So much for those Neanderthal flutes…
- US album sales were down 1.8% in Q1.
- BB King was rushed to hospital. Something to do with his diabetes. He’s 89.
- Can rap lyrics send you to jail? Yes, actually–at least in the US.
- Three members of two metal bands were killed in a horrific crash in Georgia.
- This has nothing to do with music, but it’s cool that a Game of Thrones pop-up shop is now in operation in Toronto. (Via Larry)
- Yeah, Tidal is having trouble with their “exclusives”…
- From my post here in Singapore this week, I have news about WORMROT. (Metalheads: read this.)
- THIS is the defining song of March Madness 2015? Um, isn’t it a love song?
- Wait: there won’t be any Elvis impersonators at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas?
- The 10 music apps every artist should download. (WARNING: It’s a slideshow.)
