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Random music news for Wednesday, September 25, 2024

A radio signal has reached Earth after eight billion years. Who or what sent it? Meanwhile, I’ll take responsibility for music news for September 25, 2024.

  1. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard recorded their latest album with $30 amps bought from a pawn shop.
  2. Video games bring in hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. So why are they being so cheap when it comes to licensing music?
  3. Video game music may soon get a lot cooler. Reactional Music (they license music to video game developers) has just signed a deal with Beggars Group, which is home to labels like 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, XL Recordings, and Young. (Via a press release)
  4. This is cool: An Indigenous punk archive. (Via Taron)
  5. A new documentary on The Beatles‘ adventures in 1964 is coming to Apple TV+.
  6. Billy Joel has a mansion on Long Island for sale for US$50 million. Want in?
  7. The Juno Awards are dropping the International Album of the Year category and adding Songwriter of the Year (non-performer) and Best South Asian Recording.
  8. Dave Mason, someone in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, canceled a fall tour because of an “urgent heart condition.”
  9. Green Day has sold out their hometown stadium. (Via Christopher)
  10. This company says it’s cracked a way of detecting AI-generated music.
  11. Journey’s singer is giving fans a chance to vote him out of the band. Interesting strategy, innit?
  12. What brought back Creed? Memes.
  13. “Brain-tracking headphones?” What are those? What do they do? Oh.
  14. A good sign: More musicians are willing to discuss mental health issues.
  15. Weird Al fans will love this tour news.

More music news? Go here.

BONUS: This sounds kinda gross. It’s ramen in a squeeze tube for gamers who don’t want to stop playing. It’s caffienated, too(Christopher again)

BONUS BONUS: Maybe what you need is an “emotional shower” to help deal with the stress of the “intelligence age.”

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One thought on “Random music news for Wednesday, September 25, 2024

  • I think no one has figured out scale with game music licensing. In the early days it was a novelty, but that’s nowhere near the units Grand Theft Auto games move.

    But we’re also in a weird place where games (like … TV boxsets+streaming) get pulled because the music licensing isn’t perpetual, or doesn’t correspond when the game gets published in a new channel (i.e., digital as opposed to a physical disc, or moves platforms from PS4 to PS5, etc.)

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