Random Music News for Wednesday, August 23, 2017
You’re reading this because on this day in 1991, a new thing called The World Wide Web was opened to the public. Here’s some music news for August 23.
- Some rowdy party-crashing fans forced Jay-Z and Rihanna to flee their compound at the V-Festival.
- Meanwhile, Jay-Z and Beyonce just signed a $52.8 million mortgage on a place in LA.
- Spotify has just launched in Thailand as the company pushes to dominate Asia, too.
- Wait: The United Nations asked the disgraced promoter of the Fyre Festival to help them out? WTF?
- R. Kelly’s sex cult problems are not going away.
- Millennials don’t care about breasts.
- Mariah Carey: “I’m not a diva!” Uh-huh. Sure. Keep telling yourself that.
- Use an Android phone? Have you met Bixby yet?
- Radio and artists might have to rethink the meet’n’greet.
- Podcasts are hot, but not enough people know what they. No, really.
- Where are the worst Internet trolls in America? Here.
- The new iPhone 8 promises to be fast. REALLY fast.
- Morrissey’s next album, Low in High-School, will be out November 17.
- Will Justin Bieber’s manager run for governor in California? Maybe?
- Danish police sent this busker home to practice because he couldn’t play Oasis’ “Wonderwall” well enough.
- Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” saw a jump of 2,859% in streams on Monday when Eclipse Fever hit the US.
- Billy Joel: Not a Trump fan.
