Random music news for Wednesday, June 11, 2025
There was a game of musical chairs in New York with 900 people. A woman from Tennessee won. Everyone wins with music news for June 11, 2025.
- In case you missed it, here’s everything Apple announced at WWDC this week. We’re about to jump from iOS18 all the way to iOS26.
- The founder of the Bonnaroo Festival, Jonathan Mayers, has died.
- The Bee Gees are getting a biopic—and the director is Ridley Scott.
- Taylor Swift has more stalker issues.
- Meanwhile, a guy invaded the stage at a Katy Perry show in Australia. He was arrested.
- Macklemore experienced a home invasion who bear-sprayed the nanny.
- X (or as I call it, Xitter with the “X” pronounced like the Chinese do), is embroiled in a legal battle with music publishers. They want to settle.
- Connie Francis has joined TikTok at the age of 87. Why? Because one of her songs went viral.
- No matter who you are, science says that singing is good for your brain.
- A growing trend in the music industry: Listening parties. (Via Bobby)
- Google’s new AI tools are KILLING news sites. Here’s how.
- Do NOT trust Ozzy around pyro.
- Speaking of whom, who got booted from the lineup at that final Black Sabbath/Ozzy show?
- Here’s Triumph’s reunion show for the Edmonton Oilers before game two of the Stanley Cup finals.. It’s just a three-song set, but it’s their first in something like 17 years.
- TikTok has its “song of the summer” predictions.
BONUS: Wait. Airlines are selling flight data to the Department of Homeland Security? Yep.
