Music

Policy

Should Concert Promoters Go to Jail if Audience Members Do Drugs?

Nick Gillespie | 6.12.2013 1:38 PM

Culture

Kanye West Sees Himself as the Next Steve Jobs

Makes perfect sense

Reason Staff | 6.12.2013 10:28 AM

Civil Liberties

Teen Arrested for Posting Rap Lyrics on Facebook, But Grand Jury Refuses to Indict

Brian Doherty | 6.7.2013 3:31 PM

Civil Liberties

Moscow Court Rejects Pussy Riot Appeal

"There are no politics, they are just hooligans," court says

Reason Staff | 5.29.2013 2:00 PM

Policy

Jailed Pussy Riot Member in Hospital on Seventh Day of Hunger Strike

Matthew Feeney | 5.28.2013 11:15 AM

Politics

Pussy Riot Member Banned From Her Own Parole Hearing, Begins Hunger Strike

Matthew Feeney | 5.22.2013 4:27 PM

Civil Liberties

Pussy Riot Member Begins Hunger Strike

Refused permission to attend her own parole hearing

Reason Staff | 5.22.2013 12:00 PM

Culture

Ray Manzarek, of the Doors, Dead at 74

Riding on that storm

Reason Staff | 5.20.2013 8:10 PM

Policy

Music Yet To Make a Comeback in Mali

Islamic militants banned music

Reason Staff | 5.20.2013 10:20 AM

Culture

Randy Travis Sues over Drunken Arrest Videos

Upset about its release

Reason Staff | 5.17.2013 3:50 PM

Politics

Ry Cooder Seeks 'Destruction' of Koch Brothers

Matt Welch | 5.16.2013 4:38 PM

Culture

Google Unveils Music Streaming Service

Will require paid subscriptions

Reason Staff | 5.15.2013 2:52 PM

Politics

Scrappy High School Band Survives Attempted Murder by Local Teachers Union

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.10.2013 4:27 PM

Politics

End-Times Alert! Feds Now Subsidizing Export of Rock 'n' Roll!

Nick Gillespie | 5.7.2013 11:00 AM

Policy

Lauryn Hill Gets Three Months in Jail for Not Paying Taxes

Time to sing the blues

Reason Staff | 5.6.2013 7:30 PM

Economics

Rolling Stones Ticket Prices Being Lowered Amid Lack of Interest

Apparently not many people want to pay $600 to watch rock relics

Reason Staff | 5.6.2013 10:44 AM

Culture

Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman, RIP

Damon Root | 5.4.2013 11:40 AM

Civil Liberties

France To Censor Anti-Bullying Music Video

Bullies don't like free speech

Reason Staff | 5.3.2013 5:00 PM

Culture

Jeff Hanneman, Slayer Guitarist, Dead at 49

Slayer co-founder dies of liver failure

Reason Staff | 5.3.2013 11:24 AM

Politics

Notes on Ezra Klein's Van Halen Principle of Government

Matt Welch | 5.3.2013 11:02 AM

Culture

Twerking Girls Run Afoul of School Officials: Your Plot for Footloose II

Scripps Ranch High School is not ready for this jelly

Scott Shackford | 5.2.2013 4:47 PM

Civil Liberties

Teen Faces 20 Years for Alleged Online Terrorist Rap Threats (UPDATED)

Scott Shackford | 5.2.2013 2:30 PM

Policy

Students Suspended for 'Twerking' Video

Hasn't anybody seen a music video in the last 20 years?

Reason Staff | 5.2.2013 11:50 AM

Culture

Lauryn Hill To Record New Studio Album To Pay Her Back Taxes

Last studio album released in 1998

Reason Staff | 5.1.2013 11:48 AM

Civil Liberties

DJ Gig Shut Down for 'Inciting a Riot'

Cops have no sense of humor, or proportion

Reason Staff | 4.29.2013 1:52 PM

Civil Liberties

Member of Pussy Riot Denied Parole in Russia

Not appropriately penitent for the authorities

Reason Staff | 4.26.2013 4:20 PM

Culture

George Jones, RIP

The great country singer dies at age 81.

Jesse Walker | 4.26.2013 11:13 AM

Culture

George Jones Dead at 81

The country music star known for "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and other hits died in Nashville

Reason Staff | 4.26.2013 10:52 AM

Culture

Who Framed Elvis?

The increasingly strange saga of the Mississippi ricin investigation.

Jesse Walker | 4.24.2013 11:42 AM

Culture

Twitter Music App Released to Public

Unveiled Thursday morning

Reason Staff | 4.18.2013 1:23 PM

Culture

"Gangnam Style" Follow-Up a Social Media Hit

We'll never be free of the guy now

Reason Staff | 4.16.2013 5:40 PM

Culture

Popularity of Famous Anti-Witch Song Skyrockets with Thatcher's Death

Classy!

Reason Staff | 4.12.2013 1:45 PM

Politics

Jay-Z Responds on Cuba, Denies (Dubiously) Politicians Ever Did Anything for Him

That Nets money he's rapping about, the government helped with that

Ed Krayewski | 4.12.2013 12:58 PM

Culture

Reebok Dumps Rapper over Rape Lyrics

Had been under fire

Reason Staff | 4.11.2013 6:20 PM

Economics

Movie, Music Jobs at All-Time High

But piracy!

Reason Staff | 4.11.2013 6:10 PM

Politics

Jay-Z Rap Implies Obama Had a Hand in Cuba Trip

Barry will be thrilled by that

Reason Staff | 4.11.2013 1:24 PM

Politics

Was Margaret Thatcher Really Responsible for *Every* Song in '80s Britpop? And If So, Don't We Owe Her Big Time?

Nick Gillespie | 4.11.2013 10:40 AM

Culture

Maggie's Farm: Margaret Thatcher in Popular Culture

Thatcher in music and TV

Jesse Walker | 4.9.2013 12:50 PM

Culture

Brad Paisley, LL Cool J "Accidental Racist" Duet Criticized

Wheel of outrage, turn turn turn

Reason Staff | 4.9.2013 10:20 AM

Policy

The Long, Fruitful History of Music Piracy

Music and intellectual property law.

Noah Berlatsky | 4.9.2013 7:00 AM

Culture

Two Convicted in Plot to Kill Singer Joss Stone

Anybody still remember her?

Reason Staff | 4.4.2013 1:08 PM

Culture

Judge Rules Reselling Digital Goods a Copyright Violation

You don't own the music you buy online

Reason Staff | 4.1.2013 3:10 PM

Policy

Cops Posing as Punks Online, F*** Off!

Brian Doherty | 3.29.2013 12:15 PM

Civil Liberties

San Francisco Cops Lean on Nightclubs to Become Arms of Security/Surveillance State

Brian Doherty | 3.22.2013 10:09 AM

Policy

Supreme Court Lets $220,000 Song-Sharing Verdict Stand

Declines to get involved in case about online music copyright

Reason Staff | 3.18.2013 3:30 PM

Economics

Merle Haggard Is An Inflation Hawk

He wishes a buck was still silver.

Jesse Walker | 3.16.2013 7:17 PM