Random music news for Tuesday, May 21, 2024
France now has a baguette-scented stamp. That’s the Frenchest thing ever. On to music news for May 21, 2024.
- Fascinating: How foreign policy affects music around the world.
- Prison sentences for scalpers? That might happen in the UK.
- Why are records getting longer but songs getting shorter? Let’s examine that.
- Now THAT is a hiatus!
- What if Donald Trump were to sing “Bohemian Rhapsody?” Then it might sound like this.
- There’s a new docuseries on the history of Stax Records that sounds pretty good.
- “All core systems are now on X.com.” That means everything that was once Twitter has all but been transferred to X. Twitter is dead.
- Kid Rock is a nut. Check out this Rolling Stone interview.
- Can’t sleep? Maybe you need a pink noise generator. (Via Sean)
- Here’s a great follow on Instagram: Daily Music Data.
- RIP John Wysocki, the original drummer in Staind. He was 53.
- Eddie Vedder had some unkind words for the kicker of the Kansas City Chiefs.
- Confetti hell. Can you imagine what would have happened had there been pyro?
- Meanwhile, in Ireland…
- Clown surgery.
BONUS: This is the song of the summer.
Or maybe this one?
