Random music news for Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Place your bets on who will be the new pope. I’ve seen odds for the name the next pope will take. “Francis” is in the lead, followed by Benedict, John Paul, Leo, and Urban. Some bookies are even accepting bets on “Donald,” “Taylor,” and “Elon,” all at 500-1. Moving to music news for April 24, 2025…
- It’s a miracle! Liam and Noel Gallagher spent Easter today.
- The Cure will release an album full of remixes of songs from Songs of a Lost World on June 13. It’ll be called Mixes of a Lost World, of course.
- The original Alice Cooper band has reunited after 50 years.
- Deadmau5 says he was so drunk during his Coachella set that he blacked out.
- Coachell had soft ticket sales this year, but organizers plan to stay with the two-weekend format for 2026.
- Attendance for SXSW was down this year, too. Just wait until next year when more foreign attendees stay away because of Trump’s policies.
- Meta is being grilled by governments. Will the company really have to sell Instagram and WhatsApp? Let’s look at that.
- Is it possible that Google will be broken up because of monopolistic practices? Maybe.
- Bluesky is now offering official verifications with blue checkmarks that should actually mean something.
- America’s latest legal nightmare is a lawsuit involving the “Apple Dance.”
- Voting for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is over. The inductees will be announced Sunday (April 27) on–wait for it–American Idol.
- Rick Allen of Def Leppard still has some PTSD over being attacked at a Florida Hotel two years ago.
- Live Nation just got bigger. It bought one of Japan’s biggest concert promoters.
- The San Francisco fountain once defaced by U2 may be demolished.
BONUS: Amazon Prime now has Conclave. Damn, the marketing for this pope-is-dead movie is next level, innit?
