Music

Policy

How Special Federal Grants to Enforce Drug Laws Make America a Better Place, Bitter Irony Edition

Brian Doherty | 8.2.2013 11:23 AM

Economics

Live Nation Looking to Expand in China

Appoint a new managing director to bring concerts to China

Reason Staff | 7.18.2013 2:20 PM

Economics

Artists Should Unionize, Says Ticketmaster CEO

To gain leverage

Reason Staff | 7.17.2013 7:30 PM

Culture

How Reggae Defeated Mambo

When communism squelched popular music in Cuba, Jamaica took over as cultural capital of the Caribbean

Chris Kjorness | 7.12.2013 10:30 AM

Policy

Lauryn Hill Starts Prison Sentence for Tax Evasion

Three months for not paying $1 million

Reason Staff | 7.9.2013 6:20 PM

Music

Saharan Sounds

Jesse Walker | 7.8.2013 11:10 AM

World

Tunisian Rapper, Jailed for Insulting Police, Now Released

Was sentenced to two years in prison last month

Reason Staff | 7.2.2013 1:08 PM

Policy

Will.I.Am Claims Trademark in "I Am." (Jehovah, Popeye, and Neil Diamond Lawyer Up.)

Brian Doherty | 6.28.2013 2:10 PM

Culture

Drummer for Devo Dies of Brain Cancer

Alan Myers was 58

Reason Staff | 6.26.2013 5:10 PM

Civil Liberties

Court Upholds Man's $675,000 Fine for Music Piracy

Zenon Evans | 6.26.2013 3:58 PM

Policy

Rapper "Fat Joe" Given Four Month Prison Sentence For Not Filing Tax Returns

Pleaded guilty

Reason Staff | 6.25.2013 8:44 AM

Culture

Slim Whitman, Country Singer, Dead at 90

Going to those tumbling tumbleweeds in the sky

Reason Staff | 6.19.2013 1:24 PM

Culture

Lil Wayne Steps on American Flag in Latest Video Shoot

Cue predictable freak out

Reason Staff | 6.18.2013 9:56 AM

Economics

Jay-Z Teams Up With Samsung For Latest Album

First million Galaxy users will get it free

Reason Staff | 6.18.2013 9:00 AM

Politics

It's Good Ta Be Da City Councilman!

Matt Welch | 6.13.2013 2:54 PM

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