In a burst of activity, the Concord Music Group and its sister publishing company, the Bicycle Music Company, have merged to form Concord Bicycle Music. The combined company immediately turned around and acquired Vanguard Records and Sugar Hill Records from the Welk Music Group, in a deal that closed today….

A24 is in final talks to acquire Amy, the documentary about singer Amy Winehouse, for U.S. distribution….

Tidal‘s chief investment officer and chief industry liaison Vania Schlogel is responding to criticism after the company’s star-studded live-stream debut earlier in the week….

N.W.A‘s early years can be seen in the latest trailer for Straight Outta Compton, the upcoming biopic that follows the legendary West Cost rap group’s fall and rise in the Eighties….

Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ smash reigns for a 13th week, becoming one of only 10 singles ever to lead for at least that long. Plus, Natalie La Rose and Jeremih hit the top 10 and Rihanna debuts….

HBO will air the authorized Kurt Cobain documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, executive produced by Cobain’s daughter Frances Bean, on May 4. It’s also hitting theaters around the world beginning April 10….

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Tyga got served with legal papers at Tuesday night’s launch event for his “Liquid Gold” L.A. Gear sneaker collaboration. That by itself sucks, but it sounds like the way the exchange went down is pretty hilarious, too. According to TMZ, who caught the entire thing on video, a process server waited…

On Tuesday, Sony Music filed a breach-of-contract counterclaim against 19 Recordings, the American Idol label controlled by Core Media Group which houses such stars as Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Clay Aiken….

eBay-owned ticket resale market StubHub has taken action against its principal rival Ticketmaster over the Live Nation-owned giants’s rules around resales of Golden State Warriors tickets, which the company claims ventures into anti-competitive behavior. The two companies have been locked in a battle for supremacy over the estimated $5 billion annual resale market for years….

In the space of a few hours on Tuesday, CAA suffered the biggest blow to its image as Hollywood’s invincible powerhouse since the agency was shaken 20 years ago by the departures of co-founders Michael Ovitz and Ron Meyer….