TikTok Music expands into a few more countries. This is going to get interesting.
TikTok is determined to launch its own streaming music service. Why? Because when anyone hears a song as part of a TikTok video has to leave the app to hear
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TikTok officially launches its own streaming music service
TikTok has become a monster when it comes to the recorded music industry as people share tunes by mating them to the videos they make. The problem is that if
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Meanwhile in Brazil, a baby was born at a Metallica show (and Mom gets a call from James Hetfield)
If you know anything about Brazil, you’ll know that those people LOVE their metal. Nothing comes between those people and their heroes. This includes Joice Figueiró, a tattoo artist, who
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Random music news for Monday, November 9, 2020
We begin with the inevitable mash-up of Beck’s “Loser’ with Donald Trump’s election loss. On to music news for November 9, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: Beyonce’s 2021 tour will be
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A new Brazilian culture official says that rock’n’roll is linked to abortion
Yes, rock causes abortions–or at least according to Dante Mantovani, the new head of the National Arts Council (or Funarte in Portuguese). How? “Rock music leads to drugs, which leads
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Random music news for Friday, October 12, 2018
The first book in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series was published on this day in 1979. And for music news on October 12, 2018… What is America’s new
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This was a momentous day for music in 1954. Texas Instruments introduced the first-ever transistor radio: the Regency TR-1. And now, more music news for October 18. Why was Arcade
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I just heard that my favourite sci-fi novel (actually, it’s part of a trilogy) of the last two decades, The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, is being made into a movie. How
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U2 Ordered to Pay $1.5 Million Fine in Brazil
In a case dating all the way back to 2003–further, if you want to talk about what happened in Brazil with the PopMart tour–Bono and Larry Mullen have been ordered
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Are These the Justin Bieber Fans the Dumbest Music Fans in the Galaxy?
On March 27, 2017, Justin Bieber is scheduled to perform at the Praca da Apoteose in Rio de Janeiro, a venue with a capacity of about 40,000. As I type
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Random Music News for Monday, November 30, 2015
The American Thanksgiving weekend can be a sparse time for music news. Not around here, though. You just gotta dig a little deeper. There was an overdose/suicide drama involving Sinead
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