Random music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Was that Trump assassination attempt real or staged? You can probably guess what the internet thinks. Music news for April 29, 2026, on the other hand, is 100% real.

1. Singer D4vd has been charged with murder. His canceling continues.
2. A worker was crushed to death during the stage set-up for a massive Shakira show in Rio.
3. The director of the documentary Leaving Neverland says that Michael Jackson was “worse than Jeffrey Epstein.”
4. TikTok’s “Add to Music App” has been a BIG success. More than six billion songs were saved last year after being seen on the platform.
5. The City of London Police busted a vinyl record counterfeiting scheme last week, seizing 6,498 records in a radio.
6. The guitar Noel Gallagher played in the “Wonderwall” video sold for US$96,000 at auction. Somehow that seems cheap to me.
7. Do you love to stream radio? There’s a new app called Pladio that’s pretty cool.
8. Have you ever been to a silent disco anytime over the last 25 years? Here’s a story about how that all happened. There’s apparently some misinformation about its history.
9. Finland has a children’s heavy metal band called Heavysaurus. They just released their first English-language single.
10. REM’s Michael Stipe thinks he knows who should play young him in a biopic: Billie Eilish. Wait–what?
11. Bruno Mars announced a partnership with Hello Kitty for a pop-up store in Toronto ahead of some shows at Rogers Stadium.
12. If you’re a fan of punk and you’re heading to London this summer, take a look at this.
13. Happy 50th birthday to iconic Hamilton studio, Grant Avenue.
14. WAY too much information, dude.
15. This guy broke into a tech repair shop in Mississauga, Ontario. Security camera caught him doing a victory dance.

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