Random music news for Tuesday, June 8, 2021
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- Link Park’s “In the End” has passed one billion streams.
- Hipgnosis now owns a music catalogue worth at least US$2.2 billion.
- Watch it: Hackers are targeting Spotify and YouTube.
- The burglars that stole US$3 million from 50 Cent may have been found.
- Here’s a list of all the products Apple previewed at WWDC yesterday.
- A hilarious analysis of Donald Trump’s latest inappropriate rally playlist.
- Rammstein is auctioning off some of their platinum and gold albums for charity.
- Within four years, there will be a smartphone for every person on earth.
- Are you ready for an 80 TERABYTE drive in your computer? It’s coming.
- The new Foo Fighters single is also in a new commercial from RAM trucks.
- MIDI 2.0 is here. Could this mean the end of keyboard dominance in music? (Via Jason)
- Well, this was weird.
- Got an Amazon-connected device in the house? You might want to read this.
- Bruce Springsteen is going back to Broadway.
- Here is a list of all the cars Paul McCartney has driven.
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Interesting and promising news about the new MIDI 2.0 standard and the increased versatilty and applications it offers for music creation and sound shaping. I especially am interested in how guitar can be used as an input .I wondered what happened to the once vaunted guitar synthesiser , and perhaps MIDI 2.0 is the advance required to make it the infinitely versatile instrument keyboard synthesisers are.Especially for low tech kno types…like me.