Random Music News for Friday, September 15, 2017
I started writing this post just before I boarded flights from Singapore to Toronto via Taipei. In the way was (a) the flight path of that last Korean missile; and (b) Super Typhoon Talim. I’ll see you back on the ground. Maybe.
- Lady Gaga’s chronic fibromyalgia is so bad that she’s had to pull out of Friday’s headlining gig at Rock in Rio.
- There’s more new music coming from Radiohead, but it’s not exactly what you might think.
- It was a classic rock summer, apparently. At least in America.
- Spotify has launched its new iMessage app.
- So it was Tina Turner who taught Mick Jagger how to dance? That’s what she says.
- This is fantastic: A BBC 5 podcast called “I Was There,” which features witnesses to the assassination of John Lennon. It will give you chills. (Thanks to Pamela)
- English and European musicians are finally starting to write about the refugee crisis.
- This is what it finally took for Ozzy to get sober. Eeww.
- Decapitated, the Polish death metal band, denies all charges of kidnapping and gang rape. But they’ve canceled their tour just the same.
- If it wasn’t for Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl nip slip, Netflix wouldn’t exist. Wait–what?
- Did Rage Against the Machine predict a Trump presidency 17 years ago? Sure looks like it.
- Want a better idea of how digital audio works, watch this video. (Via Mike)
- Did this past week’s episode of South Park mess with your Google Home?
- Record labels have sales people whose job is to convince retailers to take their stuff. But what’s the future of these sorts of sales positions in the era of streaming?
- Those sales people must be longing for the days when artists used to rack up numbers like these. We will never see their kind again.