Random Music News for Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Off to Winnipeg for Christmas. It’ll be very white. And now, the music news.
- Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst has been banned from Ukraine for the next five years. Why can’t other countries follow their lead? (Fred is laughing it off.)
- Tesla is going to add free Spotify Premium service to the cars it sells outside the US. It’s a replacement for Rdio.
- Killer Mike, Big Boi and TI testify that “rap is not a crime.” (Via Larry)
- Meanwhile, these prisoners got their sentences extended for making a rap recording.
- Eagles of Death Metal talk about what it was like sharing the stage with U2 in Paris. (Larry again)
- Here are a few music-and-tech predictions for 2016.
- Metallica revealed 12 seconds of a new song when James Hetfield’s squirmy cat jumped on the computer. (It was a set-up, of course, but still…)
- Zambia just pardoned a singer who raped a 14-year-old and then made him an ambassador against sexual violence.
- This is an experiment, not torture: Someone listened to Adele’s “Hello” all day every day for a week. Here’s what happened.
- By the way, 25 is headed for its third million-selling week in the US. No one has even come close to doing this before.
- Someone found some Beethoven sheet music in a home in Connecticut. It’s work at least $100,000.
- Do you use BitTorrent? Here’s the state of torrents at the end of 2015.
- Watch a cringe-worthy marriage proposal involving a boys choir.
- The American left has a secret weapon to fight Donald Trump: Ricky Martin, No, really.
- Are you a closet Justin Bieber fan? You’re urged to come out into the light.
