Random music news for Tuesday, January 17, 2023
I know it’s still early, but if you’re looking for a Halloween costume, why not consider this? No? Well, I tried. As a consolation, here’s music news for Tuesday, January 17, 2023.
- If you’ve been watching Welcome to Wrexham with Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney on Apple TV, you’ve seen and heard this band.
- YouTube has some interesting swear words regulations. If you curse within the first eight seconds of the video, you will be demonetized.
- I am quite addicted to this streaming music website. You will be, too.
- Random stat: About one in five Spotify listeners stream at least one track by The Weeknd in any given month. (From the Music Ally daily newsletter.)
- Kanye’s lawyers want to dump him as a client, but they can’t find him to tell him. They want to use newspaper ads. This is not going over well.
- The lawsuits over “Uptown Funk” just won’t end.
- A fun retro iPod emulation app has been pulled from the App Store. Damn.
- Tower Records is still thriving in Japan. Here’s why.
- Things are weird with Britney again.
- As a former radio program director, I can’t imagine having to deal with a problem like this.
- I think you did okay, dude.
- There’s a Canadian experiment involving a decomposing piano.
- Have you seen Rihanna’s trailer for her Super Bowl performance?
- After you read this, you will never think the same about your favourite nursery rhymes.
BONUS: David Lee Roth’s isolated non-vocal bits in Van Halen’s “Runnin’ with the Devil.”
