A little over a year ago, the recording industry was surprised to learn that Madonna wasn’t signing a new record label contract, but instead was signing a deal with Live Nation, a big concert promoter, to handle pretty much everything having to do with her business, including releasing new CDs. The WSJ Magazine is running [...]

A new survey on Americans’ use of the Internet done by Pew Internet says that six in ten American adults are now wireless Internet users, and mobile data applications have grown more popular over the last year. Cell phone ownership has remained stable over the last year, but users are taking advantage of a much [...]

If you’re looking for that one Beatles song or album to complete your collection, don’t go searching for it on iTunes. The Beatles’ catalog has yet to land on Apple’s popular music store due to conflicts between the band’s record company and Apple CEO Steve Jobs. “Steve Jobs has his own idea and he’s a brilliant [...]

An all-new Michael Jackson collection featuring 10 unreleased songs will be released this November, a rep for the Jackson estate exclusively tells Rolling Stone. At the time of his death Jackson reportedly left hard drives filled with unheard music, much of it recorded during the King of Pop’s ’80s peak. Jackson’s manager Frank DiLeo told [...]

At a near-capacity show for their recently launched Hottest Show on Earth Tour in Pittsburgh last night, Kiss proved why they are the reigning kings of theater rock, delivering an electric two-hour, 21-song set of glam-rock smashes, newer tunes, over-the-top pyrotechnics and plenty of blood-spitting. With three massive video screens and bright LED lights, Kiss kicked [...]