Random Music News for September 12, 2014
Happy birthday, Neil Peart! Everyone should listen to “By-Tor and the Snow Dog” today.
- If you use Uber in Toronto, note that your driver might be Deadmau5 in his new McLaren 650S.
- It looks like Bob Marley will have a Top 10 album in the US next week. Wait–what?
- Ex-Pumpkins bassist D’Arcy Wretzky is looking for Billy Corgan.
- Damian Abraham of Fucked Up is going to moderate a Toronto mayoral debate.
- Throb, the ex-guitarist for Primal Scream, has died age 49.
- Mick Jagger has a new pig named after him. It has “tactile lips.”
- The Iggy Azalea sex step. Allegedly.
- Here’s an amazing stat: 85% of American Gen Yers own a smartphone.
- Coldplay played a private show for Target employees in Minneapolis. I’m betting that cost somewhere north of $1.5 million.
- The pitfalls of having a novelty hit. Carl Douglas probably wishes he could have “Kung Fu Fighting” back.