Random music news for Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Where is Planet X? It’s running out of places to hide. Now what we’re done with astronomy, let’s do music news for January 14, 2025.
- RIP Sam Moore of soul duo Sam and Dave. He was 89.
- RIP Jackie Farry, an associate of Nirvana and a one-time nanny of Frances Bean.
- TikTok says it will stop operations in the US this month.
- Who is this Project Liberty that has offered to buy TikTok? It’s led by Frank McCourt, a former owner of the LA Dodgers. The price being bandied about is US$20 billion.
- Meanwhile, TikTok has these trend predictions for 2025.
- “Killing in the Name” by Rage Against the Machine has hit one billon streams.
- Looking for more music industry predictions and trends for 2025? Go here.
- Aw, sweet: A Cradle of Filth wedding.
- These are the songs that sound engineers use to tune stereo systems.
- Some drafts of the lyrics for Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” are going up for auction. Expect them to fetch at least US$1 million.
- Ed Sheeran is making a big push into music education. Nice one, mate.
- After two years of declines, smartphone shipments are on the rise again.
- Curious how synthesizers work? Look at this website. Once you’ve made it through that, check out this.
- Whoa, Rob Lowe! You were pretty coked up when you did this demo with Toto.
- Wait: Was that Thom Yorke of Radiohead and The Smile in the background? Why, yes. Yes, it was.
BONUS: So true.
