Random Music News for Wednesday, July 13, 2016
It was on this day in 1985 that the original Live Aid was staged. And now, some current music news.
- Hey! Do NOT go rogue and mess with “O Canada,” okay?
- New British Prime Minister Theresa May has terrible taste in music, apparently.
- Should have seen this coming: a Pro-life group is selling All Lives Matter t-shirts at the Warped Tour.
- David Bowie: Gateway drug to so much.
- Canadian EDM group DVBBS encountered some unwelcome intrigue in Hungary.
- There’s a lot of fighting over some unreleased Michael Hutchence material. Bono is involved somehow. Details soon.
- The Apple App Store turned eight on Sunday. And I didn’t even buy a card…
- Time to take a break from Pokemon GO and get into a Kate Bush-theme “A Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever.”
- Selena Gomez now officially has the most-liked photo in Instagram history. This one.
- U2 is planning a South American tour next year, apparently.
- Is YouTube’s ContentID technology not cracked up as it’s supposed to be? That’s the charge.
- Now that “Happy Birthday” is officially in the public domain, what songs could be next?
