Random music news for Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Fake ticket sales boosting the box office for the Melania movie? I’m shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you. Let’s clutch our pearls as we go through music news for February 10, 2026.

1. California is thinking about imposing a 10% cap on the resale price of tickets. It’s good in theory, but…
2. New York is planning to do the same thing. But will it work?
3. Spotify has a new “policy roadmap” describing the future (well, their future) of streaming.
4. Are you subscriber to Amazon Music? Did you notice the second price hike in a year?
5. Are you an artist on TikTok? I have some good news.
6. Queen is pissed at Donald Trump for using a song in a social media post.
7. And on that note, here’s a list of all the artists singing out against Trump.
8. Lou Gramm, the original singer of Foreigner, says he had to “re-learn how to talk” after brain surgery.
9. Still with health, Christopher Reid, the “Kid” in hip-hoppers Kid’n’Play, had a heart transplant.
10. Even wanted to sing for Skid Row? There’s a worldwide search for a new frontperson. Everyone can audition, even you and me.
11. This is interesting: The biggest-selling Western singles in the USSR/Russia.
12. The Buffalo Bills are doing something radical with their radio broadcasts. I wonder if any other pro sports teams are thinking about doing something similar?
13. This 1941 anti-Hitler song from The Glenn Miller Orchestra is going viral because–well, you can probably guess. (Via Rick J)
14. Shinedown has dropped out of Kid Rock’s Rock the Country festival because “Our band’s purpose is to unite, not divide.”
15. Sheryl Crow has called for Trump to be impeached.

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BONUS: This video features a band (they’re called 23rd Microdistrict) shouting into intercom cameras.