Random Music News for Wednesday, October 7, 2014
Still at the Sunset Marquis in Hollywood. I haven’t seen any rock stars yet.
- Stream the new OK Go album, Hungry Ghosts. What kind of videos do they have in store for us this time? (Via Greggory)
- Sales of vinyl in the UK are already higher than all of last year’s totals. Thank the Arctic Monkeys and Led Zeppelin for this.
- Why you shouldn’t sing and skate. But the dude didn’t miss a note of “O Canada.”
- Apple is looking to renegotiate streaming music rates in order to make things more affordable for consumers. This isn’t going to go over well with the industry.
- This would be cool to see: Jimmy Page, interviewed by Chris Cornell.
- Did we miss a genius J-Pop album ten years ago?
- Expect a lot of big-name artists to releases covers albums this fall.
- Take a look at this big BBC music initiative. And yeah, Dave Grohl is involved. Of COURSE he is.
- Why would anyone spend $37,000 on Willie Nelson’s braids? Can you smoke them?
- Sinead O’Connor is writing her memoirs. This should be good.
