Random Music News for Tuesday, February 13, 2018
I’d never heard of mixed doubles curling before last weekend. Amazing how it suddenly mattered when Canada was in contention for a gold, huh? And now music news for February 13, 2018.
- Canadian albums sales vs. this time last year: Total albums, -27.6%; digital albums, -17.2%; physical albums, -33.8%; CDs, -37.7%; digital tracks, – 17.5%; vinyl, 28.8%; streaming, +60.7%.
- The Unison Benevolent Fund does good work for musicians in need in Canada. Read about what they do here.
- Prince’s family has been denied data acquired by investigators into his death. I wonder why?
- Kendrick Lamar is the latest performer to ban cell phones from his performances. (UPDATE: No, it’s just pro photographers.)
- Birds sing in their sleep. Who knew?
- Facebook has a Snapchat problem.
- Looking to hire a music PR person? Read this first.
- This guy was disappointed that he got tickets to a Red Hot Chili Pipers concert. Go back and read that sentence again and you’ll see the problem. (Via Dave)
- Metallica’s James Hetfield is going to appear in a movie about serial killer Ted Bundy.
- Here’s an interesting discussion of the origins of the song “House of the Rising Sun.” (Via Iaian)
- What music tech professionals would like to tell their 18-year-old selves.
- Ed Sheeran may have a gig singing at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding.
- Pharell Williams has been sued over a website that it’s friendly to the blind.
- Well, this isn’t the reaction that organizers of the Reading and Leeds Festivals expected when they announced the lineups for 2018.
- Fight about this: Are these the 100 best heavy songs of all time?
- Mark E. Smith’s family says he died from an inoperable cancer of the lungs and kidney.
