Random music news for Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Still in LA. I remain unconsumed by wildfires. A good thing, that, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to report on music news for October 29, 2019.This list need to be expanded:
- Canadian music sales and streaming stats vs. where things were at this point last year: Total album, -23.5%; CDs, -26.9%; digital albums, -22.9%; digital tracks, -28.0%; vinyl, 0.0%; on-demand audio streams, +33.9% (1.543 billion streams last week.)
- 10 popular TV show theme songs written by bands you know. That list is in need of a major update. So many other theme songs…
- After all those years living in the US, Neil Young is set to become an American citizen.
- New study: Consumers spend 4.5 hours a day on digital entertainment.
- Music still has a real discovery problem. Here’s what I mean by that.
- How do you leave an instrument this valuable on a train?
- This isn’t perfect, but it’s a start when it comes to proper metadata with digital song files: The Behind the Record campaign.
- Emergency alerts are soon coming to Spotify, Apple Music, and Netflix.
- Oh, Morrissey. You’re doing this now?
- Here’s an update on Ozzy’s health.
- Coheed and Cambria have canceled their tour because their drummer needs heart surgery.
- Walls of Jericho drummer Dustin Schoenhofer has been arrested with 630 pounds of weed.
- Dave Mustaine of Megadeth has completed his cancer therapy. Things look good.
- Another Taylor Swift stalker is off the street.
- Flea has a memoir coming out…
- …and there’s a new Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary on the way.