Random music news for Wednesday, March 26, 2025
If you don’t have enough to worry about, it’s time to start thinking about the Quantum Apocalypse. You’re welcome. Now some music news for March 26, 2025.
- Wait. I thought that KISS had retired and wasn’t going to play anymore shows? Apparently this was a bit premature.
- Coachella cannot sell out this year. Discuss.
- StubHub says it is a business worth US$1.77 billion. There’s a lot of money in scalping.
- A new survey says that music isn’t the most important part of music radio anymore. What is? Personalities. Humans. People.
- Music made with AI can’t be copyrightable–at least for now. This is a new US court ruling.
- When Black Sabbath plays that big show in July, Ozzy will perform sitting on a throne.
- Kanye’s Malibu mansion is on the market again just six weeks after it was sold.
- Large Marge, Les Claypool’s tour bus, is up for sale.
- Curved targeted sound? Yes. Could this be used as a sonic weapon?
- A mood-based streaming service? That’s that idea.
- Need a midweek pick-me-up? Try some music videos without the music.
- As the new head of the Kennedy Centre, Trump wants to stage “non-woke” musicals. Like what? Cats. Seriously.
- Elton John has some very, very sage advice for wannabe music stars.
- There is a subset of the population who never get hangovers. Scientists want to study these people. I wonder how many are musicians?
BONUS: The original pilot for Family Guy has shown up online.
