Random Music News for Wednesday, February 11, 2015
On this day in 1978, China lifted its ban on the works of William Shakespeare. Nice of them, huh?
- The actor who plays Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie is/was a wannabe singer.
- The Replacements are back! The Mats have a US tour planned for later this year.
- U2 has contributed to a new book called Sons + Fathers. Money goes to the Irish Hospice Foundation.
- Here’s another shot in the High-Res Audio arena.
- Meanwhile, Deezer wants to take their High-Res Audio even further.
- The new Faith No More album will be called Sol Invictus.
- This might be the greatest Craigslist ad for a guitar, ever. (Via Tom)
- A Napalm Death gig was defeated by a bat.
- This is why Shirley Manson rocks. “Complete twat”? Take THAT, Kanye.
- The Great Village People Trial begins. At issue: who really wrote “YMCA?”
- Taylor Swift launched a petty, petty lawsuit against the guy who taught her how to play guitar.
- This is good: Spain’s music industry was up 21% in 2014.
- This is bad: 2014 music sales in Japan–the world’s second biggest music market–fell by 4.5%. That will really screw with global numbers.
- Apple’s market cap is now more than $700,000,000,000.
- Every use Rapidshare to transfer/download files? It’s going away forever.
