Random music news for Wednesday, January 8, 2025

AI doesn’t sleep or take vacations. Will humans be expected to keep up? One company insists employees work 84-hour weeks. Hell, no. Moving to music news for January 8, 2025…

1. RIP Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary. He was 86.
2. Good news! Matthew Sweet is recovering nicely from his recent stroke. Here’s an update.
3. The Swiss Brodcasting Corporation switched off all analogue FM transmitters at 11:59 pm New Year’s Eve as the country transitions to DAB broadcasting.
4. Meanwhile, here’s a love letter to radio that I can get behind.
5. Cool band!
6. Want to be a music journalist? Here’s how to stand out in 2025. (Via Bobby)
7. Back pain for drummers: It’s a real problem. How do older drummers cope? Like this.
8. CES is on in Las Vegas. Here’s some of the cool tech on display. Note the picture frame speaker.
9. Apple goes all-in on…pickleball.
10. A good read: “The Gamification of Pop Music.”
11. I missed this earlier in the week: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won a Golden Globe for the score they wrote for the movie Challengers. It’s their third win.
12. A concept album about actor Dennis Hopper? Yes. And Bruce Springsteen is involved.
13. A stringless guitar? Someone thought we needed one.

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BONUS: The Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any other manmade object late a couple of weeks ago. It recorded the “sound” of the sun.