Random music news for Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Good news, Virginia! It’ll soon become legal for unmarried heterosexual people to have sex! Yes, you read that correctly. And now, music news for February 12, 2020.

1. Today is World Radio Day!
2. The distributors of the HBO doc on Michael Jackson Leaving Neverland are now in big financial trouble.
3. Would you like a James Blunt Valentine’s Day card? Go here.
4. Meanwhile, Macaulay Culkin has come to Michael Jackson’s defence.
5. New music from The Strokes!
6. And speaking of whom, they had an interesting situation when they played Bernie Sanders’ rally on Monday night.
7. Movers destroyed a piano worth £150,000. They have insurance, right?
8. The biggest mobile communications tech conference in the world is seeing big companies pulling out because of the corona virus.
9. On that note, could the corona virus affect music conferences around the world in 2020? At least one conference is monitoring the situation.
10. Justin Bieber vs. Lyme disease.
11. This black metal dude faces up to 70 years in prison for burning a Baptist church.
12. Do you use a shared password for streaming music services? A lot of people do.
13. SiriusXM has just invested US$75 million in SoundCloud.
14. Want faster internet? Use frickin’ laser beams.
15. WhatsUp now has 2 billion users worldwide.