Random Music News for Wednesday, May 4, 2016
The first professional baseball league, The National Association, started its first season on this day in 1871. And now, music news…
- Creed singer Scott Stapp as the new singer of STP? No. Not gonna happen.
- Little Richard: “I’m fine! Where did you hear that I was really ill?”
- The music industry just had its best year of the 21st century.
- Growth of subscriptions to Apple Music is growing faster than those to Spotify. They still have a long way to go, but…
- Meanwhile, SoundCloud has launched a subscription music service in the UK.
- Still with streaming, can Beyonce and Prince save Tidal?
- Speaking of Beyonce, the director of her Lemonade project is working on a thriller.
- Nelly Furtado has some not-so-nice things to say about YouTube.
- Another music magazine publisher is going down.
- Don’t do this with your WiFi hotspot and then expect to fly anywhere.
- Bono has joined the campaign aiming to find those Nigerian schoolgirls captured by Boko Haram.
- Hamilton has become the most expensive Broadway play ever.
- Why would Fiddy post photos of him bullying an airport worker?
- T-Bone Burnett is developing an animated music series.
- This is what languages sound like to non-native speakers.
