Random music news for Friday, March 21, 2025
Wanna know about a multi-billion-dollar TV business? Two-minute micro-drama TV shows in China. We tried that with Quibi and it didn’t work. Moving to music news for March 21, 2025…
- Canadian celebrity chef Matt Matheson has a new hardcore band featuring Wade MacNeil of Alexisonfire and Daniel Romano. They’re called Pig Pen.
- The reason Fontaines DC had to cancel their South American tour is because frontman Grian Chatten has a herniated disc.
- The Eagles have added even more dates to their residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas. That’s 36 shows so far, second only to U2’s 40.
- OpenAI wants Donald Trump to weaken copyright protections. Musicians (including Paul McCartney) are concerned.
- TikTok’s ad revenues are suffering because of all the uncertainty around the app’s future existence in the US.
- French streamer Deezer saw its revenues go up in 2024 despite losing subscribers.
- Sales of VR headsets have fallen again.
- It’s the 30th anniversary of the release of Silverchair’s Frogstomp. Two-thirds of the band got together to celebrate. Daniel Johns wanted nothing to do with it.
- The Polar Prize is a prestigious Scandanavian award. This year’s recipient is Queen.
- Jelly Roll is going around paying off student loans. Look what he did in Manitoba. (Via Rick J)
- Bono and The Edge owned The Clarence Hotel in Dublin. It’s been sold.
- A James Taylor musical? Yes.
- Alice Cooper has something to say about The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ignoring Iron Maiden.
- This website tracks the cost of how much Brexit has cost British artists.
- Moby is lonely. He’d like it if you’d give him a call.
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