Random Music News for May 13, 2014
Happy 70th birthday, George Lucas! We’ll forgive you for Jar Jar Binks for today.
- The strongest evidence yet that Spotify is coming to Canada sooner than later.
- They’ve just announced Coachella 2015. Tickets go on sale Friday.
- How to fix the Billboard charts. That’s “fix” as in “game the system.”
- So this year’s Eurovision winner had better not tour Russia, then.
- At least one person doesn’t think that Dave Grohl is the coolest guy rock.
- For everyone for whom the movie Phantom of the Paradise was a musical touchstone.
- Goldiebox paid $1 million to charity to get out from under that Beastie Boys lawsuit over “Girls.”
- Beats Music apparently has only 111,000 subscribers. So for Apple, it’s all about the headphones, then, right?
- Should offensive music be banned from locker rooms?
- Will Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine appear at Apple’s WWDC event?
- Korn has cancelled their gig in Ukraine. Good move.
- First, there was Bob Marley coffee. Then James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem got into the coffee game. Now St. Vincent is a coffee mogul. Or something,