Random Music News for Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Bad news: winter is coming. Good news: I can stop mowing the lawn soon. And now, the music news.
- Here’s a feel-good music story about opera that will make you forget that it’s still only Tuesday. Read it. Seriously.
- For the first time in the 60-year history of the Billboard Hot 100, the top four slots are held down by Canadians: The Weeknd (2), Justin Bieber and Drake.
- A radio station in Zimbabwe was put off the air by baboons. No, not boorish radio announcers. Actual baboons.
- Speaking of radio, British spies may be tracking what you listen to online.
- Get ready for a new Beatles compilation just in time for Christmas.
- Wanna buy a letter Tupac wrote from prison? That’ll be $300,000, please.
- Is Jack White working with on something with Mick Jagger?
- Mike Peters of The Alarm is battling cancer for the third time.
- The Darkness says that they’re thinking about changing their name.
- Taylor Swift really has a cat problem.
- A singer was kicked out of a Qantas airport lounge for wearing “inappropriate footwear.”
- About that Aaron Sorkin-written Steve Jobs bio-pic: there will be a soundtrack release.
- Pepsi will release a special-edition bottle for Back to the Future Day (October 21).
- Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff are planning a world tour.
- A good story on the Toronto DJ and nightclub scene. (Via Irish Alan)
- Another scathing critique of copyright law.
- How to do an American accent.
- Here’s a band that loves Spotify. They say it has been crucial in their success–and revenue.