Random music news for Monday, January 20, 2025
Elmo’s exploding rockets are now a threat to commercial airline traffic. Music news for January 20, 2025, never hurt anyone.
- Now that TikTok is in trouble in the US, American “TikTok refugees” are flocking to Chinese site–and to sites where they can learn Mandarin.
- Meanwhile, RedNote, one of the TikTok alternatives, is scrambling to hire English-speaking moderators.
- Overhead online: Conspiracists think that the timing of ban on TikTok is no coincidence. There are complaints that celebrities are getting all the attention when it comes to the devastation of the LA wildfires. A ban on TikTok (initiated by the rich and powerful) don’t want anyone to see what’s really happening to regular people. Feel free to discuss on your own.
- Threads is working on adding music to posts.
- Someone has beat out Taylor Swift as the female artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify. Any guesses as to whom that might be?
- Coldplay is going to live stream a stadium concert from India on January 26.
- Meanwhile, Shawn Mendes is the latest artist to announce a VR concert that will be viewable on Meta Quest headsets.
- Tired of algorithms pushing out around. Lazyrecords says it offers music discovery without the algos.
- Logan Paul has challenged Bad Bunny to a WWE wrestling match.
- Oh gawd, no. The radio station that only plays AI-generated music.
- This is an interesting nightclub. Would you go?
- A book written in DNA? Yes. Wait-what?
- Every watch Ridiculousness? Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo wrote the theme. He makes US$1 million a year from that.
- This guy has announced his debut solo album. He’s 100 years old.
- Michigan State University has an exhibition devoted to techno.
BONUS: Someone in PEI has recorded the first-ever sound of a meteor impact.
