Random Music News for Thursday, May 4, 2017
Star Wars Day! May the fourth be with you. And now, the music news for May 4.
- Kevin Garcia, co-founder and bass player for Grandaddy, has died at age 41 as the result of a stroke.
- Col. Bruce Hampton, the “godfather of the jam band,” has died after collapsing onstage.
- Hang on. Might there be a Led Zeppelin reunion after all? For Desert Trip II maybe? Read this and speculate wildly. (Via Tom)
- Having trouble finding cool new songs on SoundCloud? They’ve got a new thing called “The Upload” which uses machine learning to help you.
- Here’s a deep dive into Record Store Day sales.
- This is fantastic: Fyre Festival organizers are offering tickets to next year’s show in lieu of refunds.
- Interesting insight: Why we may soon be hearing even more retro music when it comes to marketing.
- A couple of Australian nightclub promoters have been jailed for nine years for trying to smuggle $60 million in drugs out of the country.
- Now that Girls is done, Lena Dunham is directing music videos.
- Rise Against tried to film a video for their new single “The Violence” but were shut down because the premise was “anti-American.”
- Even the Garbage Pail Kids are piling on the disaster that was the Fyre Festival.
- Insanely, Fyre Festival lawyers are threatening to sue some of the concert goers that got ripped off.
- Are reports that the music industry has rebounded true? Maybe not.
- Stream ripping is a big area when it comes to piracy. It has the attention of the US Government now.
- A Cree singer from Northern Manitoba got some attention on The Tonight Show the other thing. (That’s another one from Tom.)
- This vet serenades dogs before surgery.
- Are festivals running out of big headliners? Maybe.
- What was it like to see a band at CBGB in 1976? Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore remembers.
- What if you could unlock your phone with a string of emoji? Maybe soon.
