Random music news for Saturday, March 29, 2025
A clicking shark? This is interesting to scientists. Music news for March 29, 2025, should be of interest to everyone.
- Propagandhi is back, just when we need them the most. (Via Taron)
- The Canadian Live Music Indstry Awards have been forced to go on hiatus.
- Paolo Marra, the wife of Blur drummer, David Rowntree, left him a huge amount of money in her will before she flew to Switzerland for assisted dying.
- Censorship of The Spice Girls? Yes, but for a good reason.
- NewJeans, the K-pop band that spoke out about how they’ve been treated, explain why they did that.
- FKA Twigs is the latest foreign artist to ditch and American tour. Visa costs are too high.
- Here comes the Ronnie Spector biopic.
- Here comes the Billy Joel HBO documentary.
- Hey, you’re never too old to join OnlyFans. Just ask Lorrine Lewis of Vixen.
- Spinal Tap changed the way amplifiers were made. No, seriously.
- Because you can’t make this stuff up: Scott Stapp, the singer in Creed is related to Mike Waltz, the Trump official in the middle of the Whiskileaks scandal. (Via Sean)
- Weird fact of the day: Christopher Cross was once in Deep Purple.
- Sublime is working on a new album. The last proper album from them was in 1996.
- I was on the The Leake in Review podcast talking about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Listen here.
- When is a radio announcer allowed to have a bad day? Let’s discuss that.
BONUS: Whether we need it or not, we’re getting a Scooby Doo reboot.