Category: Morning Music Notes
Daft Punk Single Out Next Week? If Not, You Can Still Watch Nile Rodgers And the awkward headline award goes to – me! We have rumours floating around that seem more like they are a publicity stunt for a French...
Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival Returns with Some Good Acts It looks like Jay-Z’s Made in America festival wasn’t a one-shot cash grab – it’s now a two-shot cash grab. The rapper has curated the Philadelphia festival once again, slated...
Daft Punk to Launch Their Album in Small Australian Town, Apparently Want Their Album to Bomb When it comes to album launch parties, the general strategy is to let as many people know that you have a new album, and...
Margaret Thatcher’s Death Might Shake Up the Music Charts Britain’s one and only female prime minister has passed away. A large number of people didn’t like Margaret Thatcher’s policies, often calling her Iron Lady or a witch. People are celebrating...
Jay-Z and Beyonce Go to Cuba, Forget That Americans Hate Cuba “Welcome to Havana; Smoking cubanos with Castro in cabanas” is a line that probably endured Jay-Z to Cubans, and it might also describe how he spent his weekend. Jay-Z...
Flaming Lips + Ke$ha = Lip$ha. No, It Really Does! The Flaming Lips previously teamed up with Ke$ha on their collaborative album The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends (which just saw the bizarro video for the song with Bon Iver)....
Young Cats Like Me Are Listening to More Music Online Than On Radio A new study shows that, based on the final quarter of 2012, people between the age 13 to 35 spent as much time streaming music online or...
Courtney Love Needs Money Courtney Love, who has been in a 20 year downward spiral, must need some cash, right? After claims of squandering her fortune from husband Kurt Cobain’s Nirvana empire, Courtney Love has turned to commercials. She is...
The Best Album Ever According to BBC Radio 2 is Made by Coldplay Nothing like a poll to cause some rigging controversy. Coldplay are either really this well loved or they know someone at the BBC. Their album, A Rush...
YouTube Set to Close, Thus Ending the 8 Year Competition Put your video cameras away and stop training your cat to do tricks that makes my cat jealous – YouTube is no longer accepting “entries”. Sure, you might have thought...
Guitarist for Matt Mays, Jay Smith, Died After Edmonton Show Sad news in Canadian rock. One of guitarist for Matt Mays – Jay Smith – died after the band’s show in Edmonton. I just saw Matt Mays play at the...
Justin Timberlake Sells Nearly A Million Albums in Week 1 I don’t know what the industry projections were, but Justin Timberlake has turned the clock back to the N Sync days – his hair is now curly and stupid looking...
Eminem Readies New Album Eminem, who told the world using the ‘baseball hat’ method of release dates, is close to finishing his album, according to Dr. Dre (via NME). The yet untitled album will be Eminem’s 8th album, and will...
A big thanks to Rich for keeping you sexy readers engaged in music news in the mornings. Time for me to put some pants on and give you some other tidbits that I let slip through the crack while I...
Pete is still frolicking through Canadian Music Week. In between drinking as many free beers as possible, he’s working on a lot of stuff from some killer Canadian bands this week – so stay tuned for a few very cool exclusives...