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Random music news for Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Lt. Uhura is going back to space forever. For real, too. And music news for March 1, 2023, is the real deal, too.

  1. Drake lost CAD$550,000 betting on Jake Paul in his fight with Tommy Fury. Two questions: (1) Is anyone else getting tired of Drake’s bling-bragging? And (2) Someone asked me “Is he REALLY making these bets or just saying he did for the publicity?” You decide.
  2. People are fact-checking Dave Grohl on whether or not Canadians invented football. (Remember his Super Bowl commercial?)
  3. The Weeknd has become the first artist on Spotify to have 100 million monthly listeners.
  4. Check out this music creation game called Beat Machine.
  5. Billie Eilish continues to have stalker problems.
  6. The Canadian federal government has real problems with TikTok on government-issued phones.
  7. The Lady Gaga dognapping story just won’t end. Now she’s getting sued by the woman who returned her stolen dogs.
  8. Sneaky. And this could have wide-ranging implications for concert tickets sold to official fanclubs.
  9. This article sheds some light on the anti-gay censorship the UK say during the AIDS crisis.
  10. The continuing cancellation of Roger Waters, German edition.
  11. How do we feel about this new built-in iPhone energy cop?
  12. AM radio is facing extinction because these radios don’t work in electric vehicles due to electromagnetic interference. There are people–not radio people, either–trying to stop this.
  13. How do get Rivers Cuomo’s attention? Persistence. Lots of persistence.
  14. Are you getting your news from podcasts? More and more people are.
  15. If you’re following the BTS-we’re-in-the-army-now saga, there’s a new chapter.
  16. Stewart Copelands is getting to release The Police Diaries, which is a day-by-day account of the band taken from his personal diary.

BONUS: This is the hottest new job in the world of computing: prompt engineers. No coding experience required, either.

Alan Cross

is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker. In his 40+ years in the music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock, from David Bowie and U2 to Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters. He’s also known as a musicologist and documentarian through programs like The Ongoing History of New Music.

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