Random music news for Wednesday, October 15, 2025
In the very near future, if you want to recline your seat while flying WestJet, it’ll cost you. Meanwhile, leaning back and reading music news for October 15, 2025, is still free.
- RIP soul star D’Angelo. He had pancreatic cancer.
- Buying a concert ticket is one of the most opaque experiences ever. If you want to see why, check out this series of articles, starting with part 1. Then go here, here, and here.
- There’s grumbling about the price of tickets for the Rush reunion tour? Me? Take my money. I gotta be there.
- AI training and professional stream-ripping at the same time? That’s the charge.
- “We must not sacrifice our creative industries on the altar of AI.” Discuss.
- Official numbers: Taylor Swift old four million copies of Life of a Showgirl in the US in its first week, a new record. First week sales globally were 5.5 million.
- There’s a Taylor Swift AI conspiracy.
- Spotify has been caught running ICE recruitment ads.
- Apple TV+ is dead. It’s now just “Apple TV.”
- Kate Bush has launched a new WarChild appeal.
- Ireland is expanding its basic income scheme for musicians and creative types.
- RIP Thommy Price, who played drums with Joan Jett and Billy Idol.
- Gene Simmons will officiate your wedding–for a price, of course.
- No.
BONUS: The dangers of infrasound. This is pretty, pretty, pretty wild. (Via Rick J)
