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The U.S. Department of Justice, along with 29 states and the District of Columbia, filed an antitrust suit against Live Nation this morning (May 23). The action aims to force the concert giant to divest its interest in Ticketmaster, with which it merged with in 2010. In the long-in-the-works suit, filed in the U.S. District

Sufjan Stevens and Asthmatic Kitty Records will mark the 20th anniversary of his fourth album, Seven Swans, with a deluxe reissue due out on June 21st. The reissued album will be available on a variety of physical formats, including a zoetrope picture disc edition as well as on silver and split-colored vinyl. Additionally, the album’s

“I need a big mosh pit – a big mosh pit!” Singer Bryan Garris is calling for a moment on the dancefloor to match the moment, as his band, Knocked Loose, faces a sold-out crowd of 6,300 packed into the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles. It’s a Saturday night and the biggest headline show

Over the week or so, Apple Music has slowly unveiled the titles included in its list of the “100 best albums.” Today, the top 10 albums were revealed, with Miss Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill claiming the No. 1 spot. Rounding out the top five are Michael Jackson’s Thriller; The Beatles’ Abbey Road;

There seems to be as many books about Prince as there are tapes in The Purple One’s vaults. With 2024 being the 40th anniversary of his chart-topping, multi-platinum, Academy Award-winning film and Grammy-winning soundtrack, Purple Rain, there are sure to be more. Perhaps the most essential one, however, is Prince and Purple Rain: 40 Years,

The Pitch: In the spring of 2014, the Los Angeles Clippers (known to most Angelenos as “oh right, there are two NBA teams in L.A.”) were on a bit of an upswing, thanks to new coach Doc Rivers (Laurence Fishburne) and star players like Blake Griffin (Austin Scott) and Chris Paul (J. Alphonse Nicholson). In

Long a vocal supporter of gender equality and women’s rights, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder on Saturday (May 18) slammed a recent speech by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker denouncing Pride Month and advocating for women to abandon their dreams and careers in favor or serving their husbands. Speaking from the stage during the

Surveillance footage showing Sean “Diddy” Combs repeatedly assaulting his then-girlfriend, the singer Cassie Ventura, in a hotel in 2016 has been obtained by CNN. The footage captures an incident that took place at the now-closed InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles on March 5th, 2016. In the video, Combs is seen chasing Ventura down

Sean “Diddy” Combs has made his first statement since video leaked earlier this week of him physically assaulting his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in 2016 at a Los Angeles hotel. In a clip posted to Instagram, Combs said, “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life. Sometimes you’ve gotta do that.

Lana Del Rey closed out the first night of Hangout Music Festival on Friday night by bringing out Jelly Roll for a duet cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama.” Taking the stage together, the two delivered a loose and lively rendition of the 1974 Southern anthem, with some ad lib interjections, like when Jelly

At a time when rock stars had begun taking themselves a little too seriously, Queen was a band of unapologetic entertainers who hid their musical sophistication in bubblegum hooks and a campy sense of the absurd. Bassist John Deacon, guitarist Brian May, lead singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor began playing together in the

A suspect has been arrested in connection to the random, unprovoked attack on Steve Buscemi while he was walking in Manhattan earlier this month. ABC7 New York reported the New York Police Department identified 50-year-old Clifton Williams as the suspect earlier this week. Williams was brought into custody on Friday after police officers in Chelsea responded

In a newly surfaced video obtained by CNN, Sean “Diddy” Combs appears to attack his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in 2016 at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. In the footage, the woman who resembles Ventura is seen exiting a hotel room and moving towards elevators before the man resembling Combs shoves her to the ground,

The Steve Albini-fronted band Shellac have returned with their first new album in a decade, To All Trains, a tragically bittersweet release that arrives just a week after Albini’s passing. Spanning 10 songs, To All Trains is Shellac’s first release since 2014’s Dude Incredible, and features the trio — Albini (guitar and vocals), Bob Weston

Álvaro Díaz is always looking toward the future. While speaking with SPIN from Tokyo, where he is promoting his new album Sayonara (out on May 17), he pulls out a notebook in the shape of the original PlayStation, which contains ideas for his next album. The rising Puerto Rican star has become a visionary in

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Amen Dunes – Death JokesSub Pop Based on recent interviews, Damon McMahon, the primary force behind the strange, contaminated folk of Amen Dunes, seems to be in a good place. Since the release of 2018’s shiny and relatively sunny Freedom, McMahon has become a father and moved from L.A. to the bucolic, bohemian wilds of

Ms. Lauryn Hill teamed up with her son YG Marley for a medley performance of “Ex-Factor,” “Survival,” and “Praise Jah in the Moonlight” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night.  Watch video of the performance, which coincide with Fallon’s 10th anniversary as host of The Tonight Show, below. Last December, YG shared

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band‘s 2023-2024 world tour will be chronicled in the upcoming documentary Road Diary, which will air on an October date to be announced on Hulu and Disney+. Road Diary extends Springsteen’s long and fruitful creative partnership with Thom Zimny, who has directed numerous music videos for the Boss as

Francis Ford Coppola has revealed the first look at Megalopolis, his self-funded sci-fi epic starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D.B. Sweeney, and Dustin Hoffman. A project decades in the making, Coppola financed much

It’s been nearly five years since Rapsody’s third album Eve, a 16-track love letter to some of the powerful Black women she admires. Through her musings on such women as Aaliyah, Afeni Shakur, Sojourner Truth, and Serena Williams, we got to know the American rapper through the back door. But with her upcoming album, Please

Childish Gambino has announced dates for a massive world tour that will see him play shows across North America, the UK, Europe, and Australia throughout 2024 and into 2025. What’s more, he’s unveiled a reimagined “finished” version of his 2020 album, 3.15.20, under the title Atavista. The upcoming outing, officially dubbed “The New World Tour,”

Vampire Weekend returned to NBC’s Saturday Night Live last night (May 11) for the first time since 2013, performing two songs from their new album, Only God Was Above Us. For “Gen-X Cops” and “Capricorn,” the trio of Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio and and Chris Tomson were augmented on lead guitar by Ariel Rechtshaid, who

 Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | More Platforms Grace Cummings joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Ramona, the new album she made with producer Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Margo Price) in California’s Topanga Canyon. Listen to the new episode above, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get Grace Cummings Tickets Here The

“The thought of prison doesn’t sound awful to me,” Jared Followill admits with a laugh, “because I know exactly what I’m doing at exactly what time.”  He goes on to talk about becoming a “creature of extreme habit” and how having fun today is very different from the raucous rock ‘n roll days of lore,

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Doctor Who, Season 1 Episode 2, “The Devil’s Chord.”] The Doctor has met plenty of famous figures during his adventures on Doctor Who, from Queen Elizabeth I to Rosa Parks to H.G. Wells. So, according to executive producer/showrunner Russell T Davies, “it’s amazing that The Doctor hasn’t met

Last night at their show in Charlotte, Foo Fighters paid tribute to Steve Albini by dedicating “My Hero” to the producer, who died on Wednesday at the age of 61. Albini famously produced Nirvana’s final album, In Utero. Prior to playing the song, Dave Grohl remembered his late friend. “Tonight I’d like to dedicate this

Camila Cabello has teamed up with Lil Nas X for “He Knows,” the latest single from her upcoming album. Built around a sensual, driving beat, “He Knows” features Cabello paying homage to playing the game, as she sings, “He’s wrapped around my pinky finger/ Watching the way I move/ … And he knows it’s true/

Steve Albini wasn’t a star of the American rock underground so much as he was its profane poet laureate and/or its confrontational and unapologetically opinionated conscience. Whether engineering albums by Pixies and the Jesus Lizard or leading his own bands Shellac and Big Black, Albini specialized in capturing the visceral thrill of guitars and drums

As the streaming wars continue, a new bundle has entered the fray: On Wednesday, May 8th, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to team up for a combined package of services including Max, Disney+, and Hulu. Because both platforms are owned by the same company, Disney+ and Hulu have been available as a bundle.