Rage Against the Machine

A Massachusetts woman reached out to NBC10 Boston Responds for help after experiencing an issue with Ticketmaster. Quincy resident Kathleen Kelly and her husband like comedy, theater and music, and when the pandemic hit last year, they were holding tickets for about a dozen shows. “I will see, like, Tony Bennett one night, and then Kanye the next,” she said….

A couple reached out to NBC10 Boston Responds when she was trying to get a refund from Ticketmaster.

Rock icons Rage Against the Machine and Foo Fighters will headline Boston Calling when the music festival returns in 2022, organizers said Wednesday. The two bands — who were slated to play the popular local festival in 2020 before it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic — will be among some 60 musical acts when the event takes place…

Concert promoters in the U.S. are stepping back from plans to scan festivalgoers with facial recognition technology, after musicians and others gave it some serious side-eye. Although it remains entirely possible that music venues will eventually take a second look at the controversial technology.

 At a news conference Saturday night, Chicago Teachers’ Union President Jesse Sharkey said the strike personally affects his family, including two children who go to Chicago Public Schools. 

A major music publisher wants Spotify to pay more than $1.6 billion, alleging it is streaming millions of unlicensed songs in what it calls “massive, systemic copyright infringement.” Wixen Music Publishing Inc., which represents the rights of songwriters and publishers, accuses Spotify USA Inc. of prioritizing record labels at the expense of songwriters and publishers. Wixen filed the lawsuit filed...

A major music publisher wants Spotify to pay more than $1.6 billion, alleging it is streaming millions of unlicensed songs in what it calls “massive, systemic copyright infringement.” Wixen Music Publishing Inc., which represents the rights of songwriters and publishers, accuses Spotify USA Inc. of prioritizing record labels at the expense of songwriters and publishers. Wixen filed the lawsuit filed...

British rockers Radiohead, singer Nina Simone and The Moody Blues are among the first-time nominees on the ballot for induction next year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Some of Chris Cornell’s former bandmates have paid tribute to the late singer by performing one of his hits with a spotlight trained on the microphone. It happened during the Prophets of Rage show in Berlin on Wednesday. The band is made up of former members of Rage Against the Machine, who joined with Cornell to form Audioslave in 2001.

Chuck Berry’s final studio album will be released on June 16. The album, titled “CHUCK,” was announced in October, five months before the rock pioneer’s death on Saturday at the age of 90.