Random music news for Tuesday, October 8, 2019
On this day in 1921, KDKA Pittsburgh became the first radio station to broadcast a live football game. Fast-forwarding to October 8, 2019, we have this for music news.
- Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats compared to where things were this time last year: Total album sales, -23.7%; CD sales, -27.8%; digital albums, -22.2%; digital tracks, -27.8%; vinyl LPs, 0.0%; on-demand audio streams, +34.2% (1.54 billion streams last week).
- Pedophile singer Gary Glitter making money off the new Joker music. Here’s how.
- The Spinal Tap legal battle with Universal has long been turned up to 11, but a resolution may be in sight.
- Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol has a terrible fear about what may lurk in his genes.
- Google’s Recorder app on the Pixel 4 does something really, really cool. Want.
- Apple and Gay Times have a new partnership with something called Elevate. I quote from Music Ally: “It’ll choose artists to spotlight, and give them visibility in Gay Times magazine, as well as on social and digital platforms. And yes, those Apple Music playlists are included: the ‘Elevate’ artists (starting with British musician Joesef) will be featured in the flagship ‘Queer and Now’ playlist on Apple Music.”
- How many podcasters are making decent money? Probably not many.
- Monday timestuck: Spend a few hours discovering offbeat music through Brots.cloud. This could get weird.
- And are you looking to book a music/sports trip? Try this app called Launchtrip.
- VR concerts: It’s gonna be a thing.
- There’s a village in India where babies get a song for a name.
- A Kinks album is being turned into a BBC radio drama.
- Here’s a good interview with Dallas Green of City and Colour.
