Random Music News for Wednesday, November 23, 2016
America shuts down for Thanksgiving later today. I’ll try to keep the music news coming best I can.
- The Kanye meltdown was apparently sometime in the making.
- You know about the charity club show by Metallica in Toronto, right?
- Meanwhile, Metallica’s Hardwired…To Self-Destruct is trending to debut at #1 in 57 countries this week.
- Nine Leonard Cohen albums are in the Canadian Top 200 this week,
- You could almost see this coming: James Corden will host the 2017 Grammy Awards. Place your bets on the kind of Carpool Karaoke bit he’ll do.
- The new headphones can extend the battery life of your portable music device. How? Lighter drivers that take less power to move.
- How Donald Trump could limit freedom of the press and freedom of expression.
- This is a great time-lapse video of building a guitar.
- Leading into Black Friday, Canadian album sales are down 20.5% from this time last year. Vinyl is running ahead by about 29%.
- Here’s another reason why radio broadcasters should demand that wireless providers make NextRadio available to everyone in this country.
- Drake is the star of Apple’s new holiday shopping season video.
- The singer for Eyehategod needs a liver transplant. I wonder if he’s praying for a donor match?
- The truth comes out: The cast of Friends didn’t really like the show’s theme song.
- Bono and Julia Roberts, together at last.
- This is kinda cool: The most famous band from each US state. (Via Bobby)
- Wait: Is the iPhone 8 destined to be a flip phone? Maybe this is a response to The Hedgehog Problem.
