Random music news for Monday, February 17, 2025
It’s a nice long weekend for Canadians under a variety of names depending on the province (Family Day, Island Day, Heritage Day, Louis Riel Day). But that doesn’t mean there isn’t any music news for February 17, 2025.
- Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor is really fighting hard against his stage four cancer.
- Brian Setzer of The Stray Cats can’t play guitar anymore because of an autoimmune disorder that affects his bands.
- Streaming is almost maxed out. What’s next for music? Let’s examine that. Audio listeners are just too numerous to ignore.
- How should the car radio evolve? Let’s take a look at that, too.
- This Canadian singer recorded a song almost 30 years ago. It’s now back in a big way thanks to TikTok.
- And in case you missed it, TikTok is back in both the Apple App Store and the Google app store.
- Views of video podcasts on Spotify are way up.
- It appears that Tool is getting ready to work on new music.
- Heading to the UK and looking for a place to stay? Blur guitarist Graham Coxon is renting his place.
- These employees were laid off from Meta. They don’t have good things to say about Mark Zuckerberg.
- Danzig may be done with music forever.
- Who says no one is inventing new musical instruments anymore? Here are ten. (Rick J again)
- A “drunk dialing computer” is exposing some of YouTube’s secrets–and Google isn’t happy about it.
- What’s it like to the the World Karaoke Champion? Let’s find out. (More Rick J)
BONUS: More bands should put as much effort into a lyric video as OK Go. (Via Sean)
