Random music news for Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Brotox. It’s a thing. So is National Polka Day, which is today. So is music news for August 9, 2023.

1. Canadian rapper Tory Lanez got 10 years for shooting at Megan Thee Stallion.
2. Have you noticed that there’s precious little negative coverage of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour? The New York Times has.
3. By the way, Paul Stanley of KISS is a Swiftie.
4. The 1975 is facing legal action in Malaysia for that same-sex kiss during a Kuala Lumpur festival.
5. More problems for Lizzo.
6. Spotify and Apple Music have expanded their AI offerings when in comes to music discovery.
7. Meanwhile, this new AI can generate music from brain activity.
8. Apple appears to be ready to move an important button.
9. Dick move, Elon Musk. But it does hint at X’s music ambitions.
10. The NME is back in a print edition.
11. Live Nation is facing a lawsuit from one of its investors.
12. Damn. I wish I’d saved my first-gen iPod in the box and shrinkwrap. Here’s why. (Via Andrew)
13. There are lots of articles commemorating 50 years of hip-hop. Here’s one of them.
14. Remember Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train” video? Did it actually save 21 kids?
15. Barbra Streisand has a memoir coming. It runs almost a thousand pages.
16. There’s a crisis in dance club land in the UK.

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BONUS: This is the summer’s most ridiculous horror film. It’s that way on purpose, of course.