U2 took a pause during its sold-out show at The Forum in Los Angeles Wednesday night to honor a loss of “family”… the band’s longtime tour manager, Dennis Sheehan, who died earlier in the day….

  Why doesn’t Spotify have more paying subscribers?  The reasons are simple: (1) people are already subscribing to way too many other things, and (2) those other ‘things’ make free music way too easy to access….

With the ascent of Taylor Swift‘s “Bad Blood” to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, its co-writer/producer Max Martin tallies his 20th chart-topper as a songwriter….

A huge lawsuit against SiriusXM over its performance of pre-1972 sound recordings is officially no longer just about Flo & Eddie of The Turtles. On Wednesday, the high-stakes litigation took another major step forward after U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez granted a motion for class certification….

Blink-182‘s public and acrimonious split from Tom DeLonge appears to be inching toward an amicable resolution as bassist-vocalist Mark Hoppus revealed in a new interview that the band have almost legally cut ties with the soon-to-be-ex-guitarist. “We are right now going through what so far has been a friendly divorce with our former guitarist,” Hoppus told Das Process (via…

A day after the leak of several of his demos — including the Max Martin-produced “I Can’t Feel My Face” — Canadian R&B singer the Weeknd has dropped the official visuals for “The Hills,” a track he debuted at SXSW in March. Starting with Abel Tesfaye crawling from the wreckage of a car crash, the visual is…

‘Tis the season for much discussion about the state of originality in Hollywood. In keeping with this theme, the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada accused the biggest film and television studios on Tuesday of violating the terms of a collective bargaining agreement by going beyond the allowance for the re-use…

U2’s longtime tour manager died overnight at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Hollywood, the band announced on Wednesday….

Jack White would be the first to say he’s had an interesting year when it comes to his relationship with the press — and in fact, his record label has admitted such in a lengthy Facebook post responding to “clickbait” journalists intent on taking the Lazaretto singer’s words out of context….

After it was reported last month the late Texas pop star Selena was suing UMG Recordings for money due from digital royalties, it now seems the two parties has settled….