Random music news for Saturday, February 15, 2025
Bored? Snowed in? Try Dancing Boss. It’ll make Monday less terrifying–maybe. As for music news on February 15, 2025…
- Now that Buffy Sainte-Marie has been stripped of her Order of Canada, both the JUNOS and the Polaris music prize have made statements on the matter.
- Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was the most-watched ever.
- Drake is continuing his feud with Kendrick. The latest dig was subtle but real.
- What kind of “national music awards event” does Saskatoon have planned? This is intriguing.
- Edmonton is getting the Rockin’ Thunder Festival this year. It looks pretty, well, rockin’.
- And the lineup for Calgary’s Sled Island Festival has been unveiled.
- These earbuds are designed to help you fall asleep faster.
- SongLab is a company that pays artists when it uses their material to train AI.
- TikTok says these creators are the future of music in 2025.
- And TikTok is a big deal when it comes to Top 200 global singles.
- As a listener to BBC music radio stations, this concerns me. Streaming access for international listeners may soon go away.
- Mark Bolan has earned a Blue Plaque in the UK.
- Scorpions are getting the biopic treatment. Naturally, it’ll be called Wind of Change.
- Want to hear a fascinating conversation between Billy Corgan and Tom Morello? Go here.
- Ben Folds wants nothing to do with Trump’s hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center. He’s resigned.
BONUS: In case you’re tracking Asteroid YR4, here’s where it could hit Earth in seven years. Given how things are going down here, we might welcome the distraction.
