Random Music News for Monday, February 16, 2015
Still in Dublin where’s it’s almost 30 degrees warmer that it is at home in Toronto. Crazy.
- Win Butler won the NBA Celebrity All-Star Game. Shoes by Yeezy, too.
- One of the BBC’s most influential DJs has quit to take a job in California with Apple. Hmm…
- Here’s a short history of the Toronto indie scene.
- Have you seen Dave Grohl give his “pep talk” to the Kaiser Chiefs? It’s hysterical.
- It’s said that “Uptown Funk” is earning $100,000 a week on Spotify. Now that Strong Bad involved, that number is surely to skyrocket.
- The Pirate Bay is gone again.
- Justin Bieber for the win! But, er, it was in ping pong.
- How the music video has changed the love song.
- How to hack the music industry.
- This is the grossest going-t0-a-festival-and-something-weird-happening story I’ve ever heard.
- Now Will Smith is in the studio with Kanye? Something’s going on.
- You know that album Drake suddenly dropped last week? It might sell half a million in the US in its first seven days.
- We’re still talking about Jack White’s leaked concert rider. Jack is still talking about it, anyway.
- The asking price for Taylor Swift’s record label is now up to $350 million.
- Abbey Road Studios are set to get a multi-million-dollar upgrade.
