Random music news for Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Last day of the month, last day of the year, last day of the decade. Next up: the Roarin’ 20s. But first, music news for December 31, 2019.
- Variety has this list of the biggest music business stories of the 2010s.
- K-pop kings BTS are auctioning off some custom-made microphones for charity.
- At least some people had the moral compass to turn down an appearance at the MDL Beast music festival in Saudi Arabia…
- …but a lot of people went just the same.
- Oops.
- The Cats musical movie is a dog (sorry) and is probably going to lose $100 million.
- Why would someone do this? People can really suck.
- Fatboy Slim is a big fan of teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
- David Bowie. Cats. That is all.
- They’ve got all the money in the world now, but Diddy and Jay-Z almost saw their careers collapse in 1999.
- Here’s a list of the most popular things we bought in the 2010s. There’s some musical stuff here, too.
- Chateau Sammy Hagar is up for lease.
- Justin Bieber vs. Tim Hortons.
- Here’s Barack Obama’s favourite songs of 2019.
- Heavy metal hijabs.
- Mark Foster of Foster the People got married. And to actress Julie Garner, too.
