Random Music News for Friday, September 1, 2017
September? Already? Sheesh. Here’s the music news for September 1.
- So why was Simpsons composer Alf Clausen fired?
- Kanye West is having trouble with his $10 million insurance claim with Lloyds of London.
- Paul Anka is having Mar-a-Lago troubles. Trump stuff.
- Bruce Springsteen’s run on Broadway has been extended by 10 weeks due to popular demand.
- Deezer is the latest company to up its game when it comes to providing high-fidelity music. I’m all for that.
- What’s going on with these mysterious radio bursts from space? What are you trying to tell us, beings in Galaxy FRB 121102?
- Flavor Flav is suing Chuck D over unpaid royalties.
- Bill Murray: more musical than you might realize.
- Bowie was right! There ARE spiders on Mars. Sort of.
- Do you have an original iPod Shuffle? It might be worth money.
- These gospel singers did their best to keep spirits up at a Houston storm shelter.
- Scooter Braun, manager of Justin Bieber, is under a tremendous amount of pressure to run for governor of California.
- Hip hop songwriters dominate the US charts so far this year.
- Justin Bieber now has 100 million Twitter followers. I wonder how many of them are real?
- Just like in Toronto, buskers need to audition if they’re going to play on the London Tube.
- Is this a stolen David Bowie picture? In a hotel?
