Random music news for Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Happy 153rd, Canada. Here’s what’s happening in music news for July 1, 2020.
- Coronavirus update 1: Not music-related but fun. We may have reached “peak hair.”
- Coronavirus update 2: Remember Garth Brooks’ drive-in concert last weekend? About 350,000 fans turned out at venues across North America. At about $100 per car…
- Coronavirus update 3: Now the Rolling Stones want to try it.
- Coronavirus update 4: And there’s a new drive-in concert venue in Toronto.
- Coronavirus update 5: Drive-ins are old news. The newest new venue is a hotel balcony.
- Coronavirus update 6: Good luck with that, Kid Rock.
- TikTok: “What? We’re not spying on anyone. Honest!”
- This is going to be a fun debate in the US: Should “The Star-Spangled Banner” be replaced as the American national anthem?
- How’s this for a podcast title: “I Just Bought Myself a Pocket Synth and I’m Gonna Sell My Beats to Drake.” Listen here.
- Real-time lyric displays on Spotify? The feature debuts in 26 markets today–but not Canada.
- I was on another podcast! Watch it here.
- Pearl Jam offered a tribute to the nine fans who were killed during their set at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, twenty years ago yesterday.
- Nirvana jigsaw puzzles? Everyone’s getting into this kind of merch these days.
- What are you up to, Soundgarden?
- The bassist of Maroon 5 has been arrested on domestic violence charges.