Music News
Wilco, Japanese Breakfast, and Sylvan Esso to headline Solid Sound Festival [Pitchfork]
Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over spread of vaccine disinformation [Consequence of Sound]
Taylor Swift tells off Damon Albarn: “It’s really fucked up to try and discredit my writing” [Stereogum]
Jason Isbell enlists R.E.M.'s Mike Mills for "Driver 8" cover [Spin]
GWAR announce new LP, graphic novel, figures [Brooklyn Vegan]
Music History
[Courtesy of calendar.songfacts.com ]
January 24
1991: The Cure film their MTV Unplugged special at Limehouse TV Studios in London. The acoustic set includes an alternate version of their new song "A Letter To Elise." Audience members are also given kazoos to replace the synthesizer riffs on "The Walk.
January 25
1971: Grace Slick and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane welcome a baby girl they name "God." Her name is later changed to "China," and as "China Kantner" she becomes a VJ on MTV.
January 26
1968: At the University of Southampton, Pink Floyd play their first gig without founding member Syd Barrett, who never returns to the band. The 22-year-old Barrett is an early acid casualty, no longer able to contribute to the group.
January 27
1990: Soundgarden become the first grunge band to make the Billboard albums chart when Louder Than Love shows up at #168 (Phil Collins is at #1 with ...But Seriously). It peaks at #108 in March.
January 28
1986: The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after liftoff, killing the seven crew members on board. The disaster inspires a lyric in the Prince song "Sign O' the Times":
Silly, no? When a rocket ship explodes and everybody still wants to fly.
January 29
1961: Five days after arriving in New York from Minnesota, Bob Dylan meets his ailing folk hero, Woody Guthrie, tracking him down in East Orange, New Jersey. Dylan pays tribute with "Song To Woody," which appears on his first album the following year.
January 30
2015: Record producer Suge Knight is arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of
murder the day after he was involved in a hit-and-run that killed his
friend Terry Carter and injured actor Cle Denyale Sloan. Knight was on
the set of the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton
when he allegedly argued with the two men, then followed them to a
burger joint where he ran them down in the parking lot. Witnesses claim
he even backed over the victims with his truck before leaving the scene,
but Knight's lawyer insists he was fleeing for his own safety.
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