Random Music News for Tuesday, October 21, 2014
On this day in 1983, the metre was formally defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
- Led Zeppelin is suffered a setback on who wrote the key parts of “Stairway to Heaven.“
- Jay Z and Beyonce went shopping for art recently in London. Oy.
- Sting ringtones? Okay…
- U2’s Larry Mullen is suing his accountants over the little issue of 11 million euros that have gone missing from his bank account. (Via Larry. No, not that one.)
- First, a San Francisco bans the playing of Lorde’ “Royals” in some kind of silly World Series spat. Now a Kansas City station is doing nothing but playing “Royals.” Please make it stop.
- Who pioneered crowd funding for bands? Marillion. See? (Via Hector)
- Interesting read: the true cost of YouTube’s Library of Everything.
- Now, on the subject of their being no platinum album releases in 2014 so far…
- It actually kinda makes sense that the Guardians of the Galaxy sound track is about to be released on cassette. Here’s why.
- Why the ubiquity of music is also leeching away its value.
- Need to hear the Flaming Lips stream their version of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper? Done! (Via Michael)
- A Maggot named Blind Gordie reviews the new Slipknot album, The Gray Chapter.
