Random music news for Friday, September 19, 2025
Have you ever wanted to own your own TV station? Now you can! BONUS: I first thought that this was a documentary on New York’s psychobilly punk band, The Cramps. I was wrong.
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Random music news for Thursday, September 11, 2025
Music news for September 11, 2025… BONUS: These kids were playing a gig. Then this guy showed up. (Via Tom) @ithenkalot Imagine walking into your local School of Rock and suddenly Zakk Wylde
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For some unknown reason, it looks like someone bought the assets of the Fyre Festival
Earlier this month, we learned that convicted conman Billy McFarland, the guy who insisted he could stage the Fyre Festival, blessedly decided to give up. All Fyre Festival assets were put up for
Read MoreYou can now buy pieces of the Fyre Festival on eBay
It looks like–hopefully! thankfully!–that Billy McFarland has given up on the idea of staging a Fyre Festival. The business model doesn’t work. The baggage he carries too great. The public distrust too insurmountable.
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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 as much as
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Here we go again: Fyre Festival is now looking at Honduras
If you were keeping track, Fyre Festival (also known as FYRE II) was supposed to have taken place this past weekend in Isla Mujeres, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. Naturally, it all collapsed in
Read MoreA Fyre Festival music streaming music service? Please…
In case you haven’t heard, Billy McFarland’s Fyre Festival 2 has, to the surprise of no one, collapsed. It will not be held anywhere in Mexico next month. In fact, it may not
Read MoreIn incredibly shocking news, Fyre Festival 2 has been canceled. Or postponed. Or something.
Gee, who didn’t see this coming? After months of incompetence, gaslighting, dodgy promises, and utter disinterest from people who have more than two functioning neurons, Billy McFarland’s Fyre Festival 2–the sequel to the
Read MoreWhat’s going on with Fyre Fest 2? (Hint: It’s not good–and there’s yet another update.)
Billy McFarland’s second attempt at staging a high-end bespoke music festival for rich kids with too much money is not going well. It was supposed to happen on the Mexican island of Isla
Read MoreBought tickets to Fyre Festival II? If it goes t*ts up, you won’t get a refund.
We’re about two months from when the gates of Fyre Festival II open on the Mexican Caribbean island of Ilsa Mujeres and things are going fine and accordring to plan. Wait. *Checks notes*
Read MoreWe have our first performer for FYRE II and, uh, well…
As of today (March 10), Billy McFarland’s Fyre Festival II is set to start on the Mexican island of Isla Mujeres. That’s 81 days. Even though tickets have already gone on sale, no
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