Random music news for Tuesday, July 30, 2019
On this day in 1962, the Trans-Canada highway opened for business, making it the longest national highway on the planet. As for music news on July 30, 2019…
- The widow of the late legendary DJ Casey Kasem accuses a lawyer of trying to have him killed.
- One Ontario radio station thinks it’s time to bring “O Canada” back to the airwaves on a regular basis.
- If you work in radio (or if you think that no one listens to radio anymore), read this.
- Playlists to the moon!
- A US congressman is targeting Metallica for a dubious recently-unveiled ticketing arrangement with Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
- Hang on: Maybe Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones was murdered.
- Sound financial advice from Mick Jagger.
- We’ll probably soon see if anyone wants to buy a piece of Universal Music.
- Feist is the latest artist to launch their own podcast.
- Yes, Montreal is very metal.
- UK teens are getting into jazz. It’s an effect of streaming.
- This Toronto record store has been in business for 50 years.
- Google is going to give away 100,000 Home Minis to people with paralysis.
- It looks like PledgeMusic is dead. Plenty of artists are still owed money.
- Here are The Ramones playing a show in Minneapolis in 1978. (Via Tom)
- Tesla drivers will soon be able to stream YouTube and Netflix to their dashboards–but only when it’s safe.
- Proof that junk TV is making people dumber. And there are other concerns, too.
- Was it really necessary to bring in the racial component to this discussion on music-based pictures?
- This is cool in a retro sort of way: Poolside-FM. Try it.
