Random music news for Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Our next three months will look like this. Prepare yourself. Moving on to music news for November 8, 2023…
- US news organization Gannett has named its full-time Taylor Swift reporter.
- Well, that’s one way for a band to handle a heckler.
- Coolest priest ever?
- On that same topic, a Brooklyn Catholic church had to re-bless its altar after this music video was shot there.
- The woman who served as David Bowie’s stylist during his Ziggy Stardust years has written a book.
- Elvis’ cousin ran for governor in Mississippi yesterday. Did he win? I haven’t checked.
- Will Spotify re-up their deal with Joe Rogan? We’ll see.
- And Australian festival has collapsed. Thousands of ticketholders are screwed.
- There’s a new app that helps artists finds superfans. It’s called Fave.
- Don’t know what to watch on YouTube? The company is testing a “play something” button.
- If you’ve been following the case of Anthropic vs. Universal Music, this is interesting.
- Paul McCartney had an interesting in-concert fear.
- Vivian Campbell of Def Leppard is still battling Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
- Imagine if your grandfather was Ozzy Osbourne. This is actually kinda adorable. But she is a bit scared of Grandpa.
- This is an unusual stream-ripping case that somehow involves Rick Astley.