Random Music News for Friday, October 10, 2014

Who’s up for a long weekend? Me! Me! Me!

1. Here’s how music can help impoverished kids do better in school. (Via John)
2. This DJ doesn’t have a very optimistic view of radio’s future.
3. Rob Zombie: “Musicians say the dumbest things.”
4. How outsiders like Lorde are taking over music these days.
5. Should indie artists look at BitTorrent as a way of distributing their music?
6. Did you see the performance by the Japanese hologram music star Hatsune Miku on Letterman?
7. All of Bob Dylan’s lyrics in one, 14-pound book. (Via Tom)
8. Pink Floyd: Comfortably done. (Via Tom)
9. Ozzy has a real foot-in-mouth moment over some 9/11 comments. (Tom again)
10. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is the first player to be fined by the NFL for daring to wear the wrong headphones.
11. An all-news station in Houston has changed its format to all-Beyonce. It’s not a stunt. Honestly. Really. (Still more from Tom.)
12. Brian Potvin (ex Northern Pikes) is going on tour with Kevin Kane (Grapes of Wrath). A cross-Canada tour stars on October 19.
13. Spotify rolls out their “Listen Like a Canadian” app.
14. No new Adele album until sometime in 2015.
15. Want to listen to a new Neil Young song? It’s from an upcoming record called Storytone. Go here to listen to “Who’s Gonna Stand Up?”