All-cash deals, rolled-up Warhols and concert cults + this day in history w/the Empire State Building plane crash and our song of the day by Matthew Dear on your Morning Monarchy for July 28, 2017.
Notes/Links:
Beats For Cash: 300K Artists Making $20M In The Music Industry’s New Gig Economy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2017/07/28/300000-artists-are-making-20m-beats-is-the-new-music-industry/
Exhumation of Dali’s remains finds his mustache still intact (Audio)
https://twitter.com/AphixJS/status/888603309568864256
Che Guevara is being used to sell ‘revolutionary’ office space and lofts in the U.K.
https://twitter.com/Adweek/status/889546195764469760
Viacom willing to make an all-cash deal to buy Scripps Networks
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/890025138682507264
#YouTubeRed + #GooglePlayMusic = More Consolidation
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/890673971254841345
Apple discontinues the iPod Nano & Shuffle
https://twitter.com/billboard/status/890756197355331584
“We found it rolled up in a tube” – #AliceCooper discovers #Warhol classic after 40 years
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/889901937490927617
Nicolas Cage slammed by human rights group for propping up “brutal dictator” in Kazakhstan
https://twitter.com/THR/status/890195070753935360
Four scientific journals publish “fake paper” on Midi-Chlorians from Star Wars
https://twitter.com/dum_phuk/status/889887151231578114
Venezuela Maduro’s ‘Despacito’ political remix backfires quickly (Audio)
https://twitter.com/rayvahey/status/889905645226307584
Justin Bieber struck a paparazzo with his truck while trying to leave a church meeting in Beverly Hills, police say (Audio)
https://twitter.com/dum_phuk/status/890605960015650816
June Foray, Voice of ‘Bullwinkle Show’s’ Natasha and Rocky, Dies at 99
https://twitter.com/boozeleprechaun/status/890534244002516992
Barbara Sinatra, Frank’s 4th wife and philanthropist, dies (left Zeppo Marx for Sinatra)
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/890024722611699712
John Heard Dead at 72
https://twitter.com/boozeleprechaun/status/888760606748291073
More than 90 hospitalized during Chance the Rapper show
https://twitter.com/ShawnCathcart/status/888919325557624832
Arcade Fire Announce Strict Dress Code For Brooklyn Show
https://twitter.com/DazAltTheory/status/889577369966706688
2017 #MercuryPrize shortlist fails to spotlight truly exciting British music
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/890673606648147968
#NewMusicFriday: #ArcadeFire, #BenGibbard, #PetShopBoys, #TheCars, #JerryGarcia and more
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/890987461874073601
#ThisDayInHistory: #July28 w/the #EmpireStateBuilding gets hit by US B-25 bomber in 1945 (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/890984313847664640
+ #SilentParade, #SummerJam, #KennewickMan, #Napster injunction
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/890984914509676545
+ #RudyVallee, #JackieO, #RichardWright, #SouljaBoy birthdays
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/890986152202715136
Flashback: Darth Cheney to Get Battery Replaced (Jul. 28, 2007)
https://mediamonarchy.com/2007/07/darth-cheney-to-get-battery-replaced/
#PumpUpThaVolume: Matthew Dear – “Modafinil Blues” (Audio)
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/890832232297906177