Ethan Millman

Rolling Stone • 12th August 2024

Severe Weather Is Threatening the Future of Outdoor Concerts

Brutal temperatures, heavy winds, and unrelenting downpours are upending shows and festivals during the live-music industry's busiest season. "Nature doesn’t give a shit who you are," says one insider

Rolling Stone • 9th August 2024

Canceling Taylor Swift's Vienna Show 'Not a Complicated Decision,' Security Experts Say

The terrorist threat that hit Taylor Swift's Vienna shows has rekindled concerns internationally about large-scale event safety, with Swift’s concerts the largest to face such a threat in years. Security experts weigh in.

Rolling Stone • 5th August 2024

Chappell Roan's 'Midwest Princess' Spotify Streams Doubled This Summer

With Chappell Roan in the midst of her pop superstar breakthrough this summer, streams on her debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess have doubled over the past two months, according to data from Spotify. From June 1, the album’s streams rose 100 percent in the U.S., Spotify said, affirming the major moment your favorite artist’s favorite artist has enjoyed on the festival circuit this summer, playing a viral show at Governor’s Ball the first weekend of June and drawing a massiv...

Rolling Stone • 24th June 2024

AI's Most Ambitious Music Generators Accused of 'Massive' Infringement In New Lawsuit

The major record labels have filed lawsuits against the prominent AI music generation companies Suno and Udio on Monday, accusing the companies of training their AI tech on the unlicensed works of some of the world’s biggest artists.

Rolling Stone • 18th June 2024

The World's Largest Music Company Is Helping Musicians Make Their Own AI Voice Clones

Universal Music Group announced a partnership with an AI music tech startup called SoundLabs on Tuesday, with the largest music company in the world set to use the deal to offer AI voice model tech to its roster in the coming months.

Rolling Stone • 12th June 2024

Music Publishers File FTC Complaint Against Spotify for 'Fraudulent Business Practices'

The National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Spotify over the streaming giant’s controversial audiobook bundle offering.

Rolling Stone • 23rd May 2024

Ticketmaster and Live Nation Should Be Broken Up, DOJ Says in New Lawsuit

The Department of Justice is calling for concert and ticketing giant Live Nation to be broken up, a remarkable claim in an antitrust lawsuit the department filed in New York Thursday morning. The DOJ is joined by 29 states as well as the District of Columbia.

Rolling Stone • 17th May 2024

Dead & Company Venture Out to Space -- And Their Past -- at Dazzling Sphere Opener

The long, strange trip just got a lot trippier. Dead & Company opened their much-anticipated Sphere residency in Las Vegas on Thursday night, making good on the potential of the world’s most high-tech concert venue and delivering what has to be the most dazzling visual show in Grateful Dead history.

Rolling Stone • 15th May 2024

How an Arrest and a Bout of Psychosis Paved the Way for Cage the Elephant's First Album in Five Years

For the first time, Cage The Elephant's Matt Shultz opens up about the three years of psychosis he underwent before recording the band's latest album "Neon Pill."

Rolling Stone • 9th May 2024

Meet the Voice Behind Randy Travis's New Song

James Dupré was just as surprised as everyone when he heard Randy Travis’s AI-assisted vocal on “Where That Came From” for the first time a few weeks ago, stunned when he realized that it was actually his voice he was hearing, at least in part.

Rolling Stone • 11th April 2024

The Battle Over Classic Rock Band the Guess Who Just Went Nuclear

For the past six months, Burton Cummings, founding singer and songwriter of classic rock group the Guess Who, has been in a bitter legal dispute to wrest control of his old band’s legacy. Now he’s adopting an aggressive and relatively unheard of approach to make that happen: giving up on certain royalties so the band can’t play his songs.

Rolling Stone • 6th March 2024

How Taylor Swift Took Over Your Local Record Store

As a Rolling Stone analysis of the 100 bestselling vinyl albums of each year since 2012 shows, pop is taking over from rock as the medium’s dominant genre. As vinyl has once again become a mainstream listening and collectible format, vinyl buyers are getting increasingly younger, and the most popular albums have shifted from indie rock to mainstream pop records from the likes of Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, and Lana Del Rey.

Rolling Stone • 20th February 2024

Beyoncé Just Became the First Black Woman Artist With a Number One Country Song

Beyoncé has become the first Black woman artist ever to top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart in the modern history of country music, thanks to her country debut “Texas Hold ‘Em,” which also opened at Number Two on the Hot 100.

Rolling Stone • 2nd February 2024

His Song Was Going Massively Viral. Hours Later, Universal Music and TikTok Went to War

On Tuesday, Cody Fry was elated when his record label, UMG-owned Decca Records, told him that his single “Things You Said” had blown up on TikTok. The excitement ended within hours, as soon after Fry saw news of UMG's open letter claiming they hadn’t renewed their licensing agreement with the social platform and that all of the company’s music would be removed the following day.

Rolling Stone • 31st January 2024

TikTok's Music Armageddon May Be Coming. Here's What You Need to Know

If Universal Music Group pulls its music from TikTok, it could be a massive tidal wave on the world’s most influential social media platform.

Rolling Stone • 27th December 2023

2023's Music by the Numbers: Taylor Swift Dominated, Country Boomed, and Hip-Hop Sunk

Taylor Swift had four of the top 10 most-consumed albums in the U.S., while a whopping 30 country songs made the year-end Hot 100.

Rolling Stone • 11th December 2023

Go-Go's Guitarist Jane Wiedlin Claims Influential Rock DJ Sexually Abused Her as a Teen

Six women now accuse famed former KROQ DJ and club owner Rodney Bingenheimer of molesting them when they were underage.

Rolling Stone • 30th November 2023

The Music Industry's #MeToo Wave Is Just Getting Started

The surge of sexual-abuse lawsuits that hit some of the music industry’s most powerful figures last week isn’t over yet, several lawyers tell Rolling Stone. Last week, as the window for New York’s Adult Survivors Act (ASA) was nearing a close, it brought forward one of the widest sets of allegations to hit the industry in years as renowned artists and executives including Axl Rose, Sean “Diddy” Combs, L.A. Reid, and Jimmy Iovine all faced lawsuits that detailed allegations of sexual abuse. The

Rolling Stone • 30th October 2023

'Fake Bullshit Shows': Guess Who Co-Founders Sue Ex-Bandmates

Founding members Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings filed a suit against the band and fellow founding members Jim Kale and Garry Peterson, calling the current lineup a "cover band".

Rolling Stone • 19th October 2023

Danny Elfman: Second Woman Accuses Composer of Sexual Misconduct

A second woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against composer and musician Danny Elfman, according to a lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone. The suit comes three months after a Rolling Stone investigation revealed that Los Angeles composer Nomi Abadi previously accused Elfman of exposing himself and sexually harassing her in 2017.