Random music news for Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Here’s what you need to start your day: A mashup of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with the Teletubbies. You’re welcome. And now music news for August 19, 2020.
- Coronavirus update 1: Livestreaming during the pandemic has become insanely popular.
- Coronavirus update 2: When live gigs do come back, expect productions to be scaled down.
- Coronavirus update 3: Melissa Etheridge is raking it in with livestreams.
- Apple has rebranded Beats 1 and launched two new global radio stations. I wonder how many people actually listen?
- Neil Young vs. Donald Trump, round…whatever it is.
- Check out this new weird musical instrument…
- Don’t sell bootleg CDs on Amazon or eBay. Or else.
- I had no idea that Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” was originally an instrumental.
- Spotify is getting into sports commentary.
- Meanwhile, here’s how much Spotify is now paying per stream.
- Here’s a list of musicians with advanced degrees. Some will surprise you.
- Barack Obama’s summer playlist is out. It includes a track from Saskatchewan’s Andy Shauf.
- Here’s another copyright infringement suit we need to watch.
- Sobering: “How we’ll forget John Lennon.”
- Handy. Very handy.
- Brandon Flowers of The Killers evaluates his band’s songs.