Random music news for Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Thinking about investing in an Apple Vision Pro? Read this first. And now, some music news for February 13, 2024.
- Here is a Joy Division mystery. Can anyone solve it?
- Not good: Rolling Stone’s editor-in-chief has quit.
- AC/DC has announced a European tour for this summer.
- This fascinates me: The neuroscience of musical taste.
- Google’s AI assistant isn’t called Bard anymore. Call it Gemini.
- But is Gemini as responsible an AI program as Goody-2? No. But there’s a caveat.
- A crazy list: Entertainers who died in front of audiences.
- Amy Winehouse’s father is fighting two of her friends over some stuff they sold, including a bra.
- Coca-Cola has a new drink that seems to be exclusive to TikTok.
- TikTok creators are growing more and more pissed over Universal Music’s ban on the platform using their artists music.
- Universal Music Group wants to build a “music city” in the UAE to expand their footprint in North Africa and the Middle East. Here are details on recordings studios (apparently to be called Capitol Studios), schools, and a new label.
- Blur, the documentary.
- “Daytime clubbing?” It’s a thing.
- How to build your own digital music library.
- A nightclub with a capacity of 6,000 may reopen in London.
- Meanwhile, a UK report shows that there’s a decline in clubbing.
BONUS: I‘d go here for a manicure.
BONUS BONUS: Kevin Bacon has an alpaca named Sharona who doesn’t like The Knack. (Via Christopher)
@kevinbacon If that doesn't get Sharona’s attention, I don’t know what will.
♬ original sound – Kevin Bacon