Weird news day, boys and girls. As a general FYI, on days when the music news leaves a bit to be desired, I’ll add some peripheral links on some what-the-fuck-isms in the news of the day. So let’s get to it, yeah?
- I KNEW IT: Father John Misty is a hidden menace in the Pizzagate conspiracy. He also killed Michael Jackson.
- By the way, Michael Jackson was convinced people were trying to end his life… right before he died. See?
- People are getting really excited to fly pigs near Trump Tower for one day. Let’s find something more worthwhile/effective to do.
- The tale of the band who torched their own tour bus… for a good reason.
- Streaming is now generating $100 million/month at WMG. That’s a 45% leap over last year.
- Ableton built a free browser playground to show how music works.
- Cavemen used the same parts of their brain to make tools that musicians do to write music. Then there’s the crossover artists, such as Andrew W.K.
- These devices help turn headphones into hearing loss warning systems.
- Songs that get stuck in your head are called earworms, and that’s fucking nasty. There’s also a science behind it.
- There’s been a breakthrough in ecstasy testing kits: great for slightly-safer partying, really bad for getting away with it.
- A bunch of pothead mice got Benjamin Button syndrome, which may lead to anti-aging scientific developments. And now you can stop asking me why I look so good.
- This is perfect. Send this to every “empath” and “synesthete” you know.
- Angry red snowflakes don’t like Trump’s preferred handjob delivery girl.
- The ad geniuses from the infamous Pepsi commercial appear to have found a new job: getting fat women to buy fat-lady bottles of Dove soap and calling it “empowerment”.
- Hey middle schoolers, got a deal for you. Like a gun on Instagram, get suspended from school.
- Have some piss beer: a Danish brewery is now making beer with recycled urine. Budweiser will be filing a lawsuit within hours.
- The Gorillaz Demon Dayz festival lineup has been announced.
- Eagles of Death Metal to release I Love You All The Time – Live at the Olympia in Paris DVD. It features the Antiquiet-debuted cover of GNR’s It’s So Easy.
- Die Antwoord’s final album is about to arrive. Check out Love Drug as a taste.
- Katy Perry might not be someone you want to fuck with.
- The National is getting mysterious with their new Sleep Well Beast album teaser.
- Brody Dalle is in the stuuuuudio.
- OH MY GOD, there’s a King of Leon who slutshamed a wrestler and now social media is up in arms and and and… jesus fucking christ let’s all just take a break from the internet for a minute.
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