• Concert industry lacking 'superstars' this summer, tour promoters worried

    Concert promoters aren't too optimistic about the 2014 Summer touring season, although their pessimism might be without merit. Sources for Rolling Stone's short feature on the subject cited one fact when making their worrisome claims: It'll be the first year since 2007 that U2, Madonna and The Rolling Stones will all be off the road. Last year's biggest touring earner, Bon Jovi, will also take a vacation during the summer.

  • Seven Classic Albums With Anti-Climactic Closers: Neil Young, Michael Jackson, and more

    A properly sequenced album should feel like a movie; the beginning grabs your attention, the action rises, and the finale explodes. Many album closers commit to this arc (“A Day in the Life” from Sgt. Pepper’s is an excellent example) but some albums leave us hanging at the end, even the great ones. Here are seven classic albums with anti-climactic endings.

  • Epic Records to release posthumous Michael Jackson album, 'Xscape,' in May

    Nearly five years after Michael Jackson's death, Epic Records is releasing material from the singer's archive vault for the upcoming album, Xscape, due out May 13. According to Billboard, the label CEO and executive producer, L.A. Reid, cultivated Jackson's completed vocal recordings and went about "contemporizing" each to give it a more current sound while maintaining what the label believes would've been Jackson's creative vision.

  • Cirque de Soleil's Michael Jackson show getting sued, and an Amy Winehouse hologram concert might follow.

    An Amy Winehouse hologram concert series might be in the works, but first the promoter has to sue to make sure no one else will do it, or anything like it. Alki David is the owner of Musion, the hologram-development company that has generated 3D models of performers including Tupac Shakur for its performance with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre at the Coachella Music Festival. He alleges that the hologram-Michael Jackson that appears during Cirque de Soleil's Michael Jackson: One performance in Las Vegas is an infringement on patents held by Musion.

  • Appeals Judge upholds conviction of Michael Jackson's doctor

    A California appellate court has upheld Dr. Conrad Murray's conviction in the case of Michael Jackson's death, verifying the death was a case of involuntary manslaughter, according to The Washington Post. In a 68-page ruling, there was substantial evidence that Murray had administered the lethal dose of anesthetic propofol that killed the King of Pop.

  • Michael Jackson estate files papers for retrial in wrongful death lawsuit against AEG

    When you invest as much time as the Jackson family did with its wrongful death lawsuit against AEG Live (and when you aim for a payout upwards of $40 billion), you don't take losing your case sitting down. Hence it shouldn't be too surprising when lawyers filed legal papers on Monday for Katherine Jackson (Michael Jackson's mother) and the pop star's three children, calling for a retrial.
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