Music

For years, Sen. Amy Klobuchar has sought to reform the concert industry. On Thursday, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster‘s alleged monopoly on the U.S. touring industry, claiming that the businesses have been feeding on ticket buyers since merging in 2010. (Live …

Mariah Carey has one big rule when it comes to songwriting: make sure the lyrics apply to as many listeners as possible. Rolling Stone can exclusively share a snippet of Carey’s upcoming “Portrait of a Portrait” episode on Audible‘s Words + Music series, out Thursday. “One thing that’s something I …

Sean Kingston’s mother was arrested Thursday as part of a raid on the “Beautiful Girls” singer’s rented South Florida mansion. Following the raid conducted by Broward Sheriff deputies and Davie Police SWAT, officials told NBC Miami that Kingston’s mother, Janice Turner, was taken into custody on numerous fraud and theft …

Ed Sheeran‘s sophomore album, stylized as X but pronounced Multiply, will celebrate its official 10th anniversary in a few weeks, on June 21. But for the record that changed his life, largely solidifying his place in the pop ecosystem with “Thinking Out Loud” and “Photograph,” the singer and songwriter began …

In early 1996, the three members of Sublime —frontman Bradley Nowell, bassist Eric Wilson, and drummer Bud Gaugh —were jamming in Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Studio in Austin, Texas, when they broke into an improvised, half-formed song that bootleggers would later call “Eireen.” Frontman Bradley Nowell, who would die of an …

The Department of Justice is calling for concert and ticketing giant Live Nation to be broken up, a remarkable claim in an antitrust lawsuit the department filed in New York Thursday morning. The DOJ is joined by 29 states as well as the District of Columbia. “We are not here …

Kelly Clarkson has reached a confidential settlement in her battle with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock over the millions in commission he paid himself as her manager. Court documents show Clarkson requested a dismissal of the case on Tuesday, May 21, while Blackstock’s company, Starstruck Management Group, requested a dismissal on May …

Celine Dion‘s most prized possession is her voice and the life it has allowed her to live. In the first trailer for the forthcoming Prime Video documentary I Am: Celine Dion, the singer makes clear that she will do anything it takes to protect it — even as she battles …

Fourteen years after industry giants Live Nation and Ticketmaster came together in a blockbuster, industry-shifting merger, the Department of Justice is hoping for a curtain call. On Thursday, the DOJ and attorneys general from 29 states and the District of Columbia brought a major antitrust lawsuit against the live entertainment …

Live Nation disputed the Department of Justice’s claim that it maintains a monopoly over the live entertainment industry, defended its controversial merger with Ticketmaster, and argued that breaking up the company would not result in lower prices for concert tickets. On Thursday, May 23, the DOJ, along with 30 state …