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.
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard recorded their latest album with $30 amps bought from a pawn shop.
- Video games bring in hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. So why are they being so cheap when it comes to licensing music?
- 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)
- This is cool: An Indigenous punk archive. (Via Taron)
- A new documentary on The Beatles‘ adventures in 1964 is coming to Apple TV+.
- Billy Joel has a mansion on Long Island for sale for US$50 million. Want in?
- 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.
- Dave Mason, someone in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, canceled a fall tour because of an “urgent heart condition.”
- Green Day has sold out their hometown stadium. (Via Christopher)
- This company says it’s cracked a way of detecting AI-generated music.
- Journey’s singer is giving fans a chance to vote him out of the band. Interesting strategy, innit?
- What brought back Creed? Memes.
- “Brain-tracking headphones?” What are those? What do they do? Oh.
- A good sign: More musicians are willing to discuss mental health issues.
- Weird Al fans will love this tour news.
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.”
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.)