Random music news for Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Happy Canada Day! Here’s music news for July 1, 2026.
- Angine de Poitrine played a set at the Montreal Jazz Festival. It was a record crowd and six people were sent to hospital.
- Serious question: Are older artists pushing themselves too hard by continuing to tour? Will we see someone not just collapse on stage but die?
- Thanks to all those data centres being built, the gadgets we buy are getting more expensive. Here’s an explanation.
- Australia has doubled penalties for social media firms that don’t follow the ban on targeting kids under 16.
- The Ferrari Luce, the EV partly designed by ex-Apple design guru Jonny Ive, is ugly, (Well, a lot of people think that.) but it’s already sold out in China.
- Speaking of Apple, they’ve got a killer new desktop machine coming.
- Last month, I participated in a CBC IDEAS podcast about the mythical 27 Club. To join you, must have been a famous musician and you had to die at the age of 27. You can hear it here.
- Johnny McDaid of Snow Patrol was in a relationship with Courtney Cox. Not anymore.
- The BBC has stopped broadcasting in longwave. The only countries maintaining transmitters are state broadcasters in Mongolia, Poland, Algeria, Morocco and Romania.
- Sprite, the soft drink, is now in the hip-hop business. Sort of.
- Jason Newsted, ex of Metallica, is working on a memoir. He’s written 130 chapters so far.
- How doers Mick Jagger keep so active at his age? Let’s ask. (Via Rick J)
- I like this: Dua Lipa is opening a physical library filled with banned and censored books.
- Here’s the obligatory AI-is-going-kill-us post for the day.
BONUS: Imagine if your address was on this street.
