Random Music News for June 6, 2014
I couldn’t remember if my mom’s birthday was yesterday or today. I gambled on yesterday and won. Whew.
- Here’s a music festival that will feature nothing but 18 hours of polka music.
- This Toronto kid got a record deal partly because people heard in his six-second Vine uploads.
- This violin-playing YouTube star explains how the Internet can shape the music industry.
- The Vevo music video service is still looking for someone to buy them.
- Some John Lennon manuscripts were just auctioned off for $3 million.
- The Beastie Boys win a $1.7 million judgement in their suit against Monster Energy Drink.
- And still with the Legal Dept, one of the dancing hamsters in that Kia commercial (no, I don’t know which one) has been arrested on insurance fraud charges.
- Austin, Texas, thinks it might be a good idea to erect a statue of Glen Danzig riding a dragon. No, really.
- The Boomtown Rats reunion is helping Bob Geldof deal with the grief over his daughter, Peaches.
- Spiders actually pluck their webs like guitar strings to learn what sorts of things have become caught in it.
- And the controversy continues over about whom Alanis Morissette wrote “You Oughta Know.”