Random Music News for Monday, April 11, 2016
On this day in 1970, Apollo 13 was launched at 13:13 CST. Triskaidekaphobia, anyone? And now, the music news….
- The Much Music Video Awards are dead. Now it’s the iHeartRadio MMVAs.
- Vladimir Putin isn’t worried about the Panama Papers. He says anything involving him just features his friend “buying musical instruments.”
- Drake’s upcoming album, Views from the 6, will be exclusive to Apple at first. Take that, Spoitfy.
- Why streaming is heading for an “identity crisis.”
- Can you whistle like this? Not even close, probably.
- Tony Conrad, the avant-garde filmmaker and composer, has died at 76.
- RIP Nadine Gelineau, a Canadian who made a difference the music business.
- Will we get a new Metallica album this year? It’s now very possible.
- Sorry, Smiths fans, this Twitter account isn’t anything to get excited about. Nothing to see here.
- Meanwhile, here’s another example of how Morrissey is regarded as a god in Mexico.
- Following Bruce Springsteen’s cancellation of a show in North Carolina over a new LGBT law, Bryan Adam has done the same in Mississippi.
- As of Friday, Canadian music sales (albums and singles, physical and digital) are pacing 21.5% behind where they were this time last year…
- …while vinyl on its own is up 25.5%.
- Remember that controversial mural of Kanye kissing himself? Its creator has destroyed it.