Random music news for Tuesday, April 8, 2025
If you’ve tried Bluesky as an alternative to X and Threads, you may have noticed that there aren’t a lot of laughs on the platform. Let’s take a look at that. Then let’s look at music news for Tuesday, April 8, 2025.
- Amadou Bagayoko, one-half of the amazing Mali group, Amadou & Mariam, has died at age 70.
- Trump says he’s going to give TikTok a little more time to sell its US operations.
- However, Trump still has to face a copyright infringement lawsuit from the estate of Isaac Hayes. Go Chef!
- No one wants to see Beyoncé in her current tour. Tickets are available for a gig in New Jersey for as little as $US25.
- A nine-CD box set of John Lennon live tracks is coming later this year.
- Getting (back) into vinyl? Here are nine tips that should help.
- Morrissey is trying to explain why he’s suing an online troll.
- Vimeo has an idea for a streaming service for creators. It’s called “Vimeo Streaming,” of course.
- On the topic of video, “views are lies.” Let’s examine that.
- Meanwhile, there’s a new startup called oMoo which is a “hands-on haptics-based music app.” What?
- Roots music: King Charles plays “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” on a carrot. I did not make a typo with that sentence.
- What are you doing with these podcasts, Google? Care to explain?
- Here’s the latest on the upcoming Billy Joel documentary.
- Jesse Lacey of Brand New is facing new allegations of grooming young fans.
- Mariah Carey walked into her son’s room and embarrassed him for all to see.
BONUS: This computer runs on human neurons. What could possibly go wrong?
