Random music news for Wednesday, January 1, 2020
It’s the future. Time for the first roundup of music news of the new decade.
- Here’s a list of all rock stars we lost in 2019.
- Here’s a list of the biggest musical trends of the last decade.
- And here are ten musical things to look forward to in 2020.
- Anyone up for some Coachella 2020 rumours?
- No, Dream Theatre’s Mike Portnoy is NOT replacing Neil Peart in Rush.
- These are the best and worst months to release music.
- Massive Attack plans to tour Europe by train.
- Ten percent of Universal, the largest record label in the world, will be sold to a Tencent, the Chinese company.
- Mariah Carey’s Twitter account was hacked and the results were…predictable.
- Last year was very good for music purchases in the UK–the best since 2006, actually.
- Travis Barker and his son seem to have some music coming soon.
- And finally, a Goth version of the disco classic, “The Hustle.”