Bruce Springsteen has reportedly sold his music rights to Sony for half a billion dollars, the latest superstar singer to join a frenzy of catalog sales fueled by the pandemic. According to The New York Times and US entertainment outlet Billboard, the sale consists of Springsteen’s music catalog as ... Read More »
Last week, President Obama released two playlists of music he’ll be rocking out to in his last summer in office. The lists encompassed a wide variety of music, from rap to jazz to Manu Chao, though one track conspicuously absent was Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,” which Obama used to hype himself ... Read More »
Spotify is launching a new playlist called Release Radar Spotify is releasing a new feature aimed at making it easier for subscribers to find new music that fits their personal taste. The new addition, called Release Radar, is similar to the service’s Discover Weekly playlist, but it only surfaces recently ... Read More »
In 1977, NASA blasted two unmanned probes, Voyager 1 and 2, into space. Thinking that the probes could possibly run into extraterrestrial life, a time capsule about life on Earth called the Golden Record was included on board. It contained recorded sounds from nature, spoken greetings in different languages and ... Read More »
Ofsted has criticised an Islamic independent school, after inspectors found leaflets which claimed music and dancing were “acts of the devil”. Inspectors made an unannounced visit to the Darul Uloom Islamic High School in Birmingham after having previously rated the school as “inadequate”. Inspectors said pupils were not being protected ... Read More »
