Random Music News for Tuesday, March 21, 2017
The first full day of spring! Bring it ON! And now, the music news.
- If you’re concerned about the music venue crisis currently facing Toronto, read this.
- Canadian album sales are about even where they were at this point last year, but no thanks to digital albums. They’re soft by 25%. Vinyl is up by 6.2% and on-demand music streams are ahead 98.3%. And before anyone gets too excited about cassettes, only 700 have been sold across the country all year. That’s down 41% from last year.
- A good look at U2’s The Joshua Tree 30 years later from NPR.
- The prison recordings of Charles Manson are being compiled for release. Fun.
- Drake broke a bunch of Apple Music records.
- A look at how ABBA connected with a Hindu audience.
- The late NYC newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin–he died over the weekend at 88–told this story of the night John Lennon was shot.
- Katy Perry once went to Bible camps to “pray away her gay.”
- Glen Campbell’s Alzheimer’s has worsened. He can no longer play guitar.
- Do people really listen to an entire podcast? (SPOILER: No.)
- Although this article is in Norwegian, I can tell you it says that listening to radio is down by 10% now that FM transmitters are being shut off.
- Meanwhile, Thailand is planning to launch digital radio next year.
- This is great: TV theme songs of the past that were actually proper songs.
- An Australian Justin Bieber imposter is facing 931 child sex charges.
- YouTube has a new controversy to deal with thanks to their LGBT “restricted mode“…
- …and there’s a row over this Morrissey T-shirt.
- Seven trends music experts say we should watch for in 2017.
- Apple has upgraded the basic 9.7-inch iPad and dropped the price. There’s also a new (PRODUCT) RED iPhone 7 and 7Plus.
