Random Music News for Wednesday, February 8, 2017
As you read this, I’m somewhere over the North Pole on an EVA 777 heading to Taipei. Nice wifi up here. I can report on the music news from the comfort of my seat.
- Justin Bieber made $2 million from that T-Mobile commercial for the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, his caveman buddy in the spot, the Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski, made just $250,000. Get a new agent, dude.
- Here’s what it’s like to be an Australian fan of Nickelback. [SPOILER: It’s hard.]
- This is a list of who’s playing what music festivals this year–so far.
- Comparing the concert riders of Coldplay and Ed Sheeran. Geez, if you’re gonna order lobster…
- Steven Bannon, otherwise known as the Real President of the United States, once wrote a rap musical about the LA riots.
- Concerned about what you pay for streaming music services? Then read this.
- Ritchie Yorke, one of the first people to write seriously about Canadian music, has died at the age of 73.
- Wait: is HMV’s flagship store on Oxford Street in London about to close?
- Dr. Luke claims Kesha owes him $1.3 million royalties.
- Bjork just sold her home in New York.
- Did the spirits of John Lennon and George Harrison visit this medium?
- So Metallica is going to perform at the Grammys with Lady Gaga?
- This is weird: A judge asked a lawyer to explain the lyrics to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Here’s why.
- These Afghan women are risking their lives to make music.
- Like pictograms? Like music? What if you were to combine the two? (Via Peter)
- Cops thought it was a fight, but when they arrived, they released someone was just making a music video.
