Random Music News for Tuesday, March 3, 2015
It was on this day in 1991 that cameras caught cops beating up Rodney King.
- Just to prove that not everyone hates Nickelback comes word that their new No Fixed Address album has gone platinum (80,000 copies) in Canada.
- Are Toronto’s indie labels in trouble?
- There’s a rumour that U2 is going to SXSW. Something about the Apple watch, which almost makes sense.
- Well, so much for the house in which Ian Curtis hanged himself becoming a museum…
- Madonna will launch her Rebel Heart world tour in August.
- The Eagles had to bail on a festival show in Australia when wind speeds reached 85 mph.
- Wait: Snapchat was in talks to buy Taylor Swift’s record company. Snapchat?
- Is Twitter’s recently-departed head of music heading for Apple?
- Metal singer who vandalized Dimebag Darrell’s grave says he’s sorry.
- Who was better: Elvis or the Beatles? Discuss.
- A restored version of The Breakfast Club will be screened at SXSW.
- Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore announced that a new solo record is coming.
- Someone bought Paul McCartney’s childhood home in an auction that lasted all of 6 minutes.
- Remember that one-of-a-kind Wu Tang album? It won’t be available for sale for another 88 years.
- Tsk. Someone has been messing with Kanye’s Wikipedia entry.
