Random music news for Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Fun fact (via Sean): Magicians have been sawing women in half for a hundred years now. Who knew? Now educate yourself with some music news for January 13, 2021.
- Virtual concerts are the new music videos. Discuss.
- Director Danny Boyle has been hired to helm a biopic series on the Sex Pistols.
- Do the playlists on your iOS device look boring? Try Demin!
- Here are five facts about the famous theme song from Jeopardy.
- Alex Trebek dressed up as a member of KISS? It happened. (Via Tom)
- Sony is now in the smart speaker game.
- Talk radio hosts has been told by their employers to cut out the election fraud rants.
- There’s been another big purchase of a songwriting catalogue, this time many of the songs of three-time Grammy award-winning songwriter, Ryan Tedder.
- How could you play this thing? A 20-string(!!!) Mountain Dew-inspired guitar.
- Well, this is encouraging. Thanks, Dr. Fauci! Let’s hope you’re right.
- Well, this COVID concert experiment turned out well. But I’ll still wait for a vaccination.]
- In gadget news, there’s this. Ew.
- Spotify is now worth US$67 billion. That’s a 3x increase in ten months.
- Speaking of Spotify, want to share your playlists with your kids? Here’s how.
- This report is in Chinese, but it says that 52% of all Chinese musicians don’t make any money from music.
