Random music news for Friday, January 16, 2026
This viral Chinese app is a hit with people living alone. It basically asks, “Are you dead?” Music news for January 16, 2026 is very much alive. BONUS: Here’s something
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Here’s the first trailer for the Michael Jackson biopic
Biopics of musicians can be hit or miss. Queen‘s Bohemian Rhapsody was a hit while the recent Bruce Springsteen film, Deliver Me from Nowhere, is pretty much a miss. Elton
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Scientists have come up with a death date for the universe. Time to party like it’s 33.3 billion years from now. Meanwhile, today is the shortest day in history by
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How did this Robbie Williams biopic get made? You’ll understand when you see the trailer
He’s never been much of a hit in North America, but Robbie Williams, ex of the British band Take That, is a gigantic superstar in many parts of the world.
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Here’s the first trailer for the Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black
There have been attempts to give Amy Winehouse the biopic treatment since she died, including a hologram tour that never happened (at least not yet). Now, though, a biopic has
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Will the new Bob Marley biopic resurrect an old conspiracy theory?
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] If you were part the minuscule audience who watched the MTV Music Video Awards last week (according to Nielsen overnights, only 865,000
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Here’s the first trailer for the Bob Marley biopic One Love
When it comes to the next musician-based biopic, Bob Marley is an obvious no-brainer. Here is the first taste of One Love, which is due in theatres next year. (Via
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Spotify is getting the biopic treatment from Netflix called The Playlist. Here’s a trailer.
When Netflix first appeared online in 2008, most people didn’t get it. “So lemme get this straight. You rent music by paying a monthly fee? And when I stop paying
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Here’s the latest trailer for the new Weird Al biopic
Daniel Radcliffe has come a long way from Harry Potter. Damn, he nails the Weird Al thing. Take that, Rami Malek. Toronto International Film Festival audiences will be raving at
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Here’s the trailer for the upcoming Sex Pistols biopic TV series
Come May 31, Danny Boyle’s limited series Pistol will appear on Disney+. It’s a six-part biography/drama based on the Sex Pistols, taking most of its source material from a memoir
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Here’s our first look at the biopic Spinning Gold. KISS is involved.
One of the more outrageous record industry characters was Neil Bogart, the head of Casablanca Records. The label’s glory days were back in the coke-fueled 70s when Bogart cranked out
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