Random music news for Wednesday, September 11, 2024

I can get behind this: Sleepmaxxers. Moving to music news for September 12, 2024.

1. Steve Bannon is sitting in prison fretting about the political power of Taylor Swift fans. See?
2. More rough news for AM radio: Three stations in Connecticut have gone dark as the signals moved to FM.
3. Meanwhile, France is getting ready to shut off all FM radio.
4. YouTube is developing tools that will sniff out AI.
5. Over at Amazon/Audible, the company is working on a way for authors to clone themselves so an AI that sounds like them can read their own books.
6. New analysis: 84% of US recorded music revenue comes from streaming.
7. Pharma giant Johnson & Johnson is being sued by Sony and by a Universal-owned music production company for copyright infringement.
8. Well, this is a complication when it comes to Linkin Park V2.0. Mike Shinoda has responded.
9. Is a new Cure album coming? Maybe.
10. And look at this: Radiohead is back rehearsing together.
11. This seems to be the problem with the release of the 9-hour Prince documentary. It’s all a lot more clear now.
12. Some people in the UK want to nationalize Ticketmaster.
13. Here come the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of George Michael/Wham’s “Careless Whisper.”
14. What are “post-partum punks?” Oh.
15. There’s a new Kickstarter program for a dating app for ravers.

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BONUS: Minority Report‘s pre-crime unit has come to Argentina.