The Justice Department has settled its anti-trust lawsuit with Live Nation, which was in the middle of a trial. The justice department's core demand was the breakup of Live Nation, which controls the vast majority of ticket sales and venues in the USA, as well as secondary resale hubs. Live Nation distributed 646 million tickets through its systems in 2025. Live Nation owned, operated, had exclusive booking rights or an equity interest in 460 venues around the world, 78 of which were amphitheaters. In the settlement, Live Nation is free to remain as a singular unit. This issue was the core point in the Fed's complaint against Livenation. There were some concessions from Live Nation in the settlement. Live nation agreed to: a 15 percent cap on Ticketmaster service fees at Live Nation-owned or operated amphitheaters; to develop back-end technology for listing and delivering tickets for “any third-party primary marketplaces,” but only for applicable venues that chose to do so.; a pledge to give artists more transparency on their own ticket sales; let select venues essentially sign new agreements to sell a certain portion of tickets through entities other than Ticketmaster- Still, fully exclusive options with Ticketmaster would also be on the table for up to four years. The deal still requires judicial approval. Meanwhile, in the trial, documents came to light which show what at least some Live Nation directors think of their consumers. Slack messages were unveiled which contain exchanges between Live Nation employees Ben Baker and Jeff Weinhold, who were at the time regional directors of ticketing for venues in Florida and Virginia, respectively. In those messages, Weinhold wrote that he listed VIP parking for $250 and club access for $125. Baker wrote, "These people are so stupid," then added, "I almost feel bad taking advantage of them." They also discussed parking rates, during which Baker wrote that Live Nation was, "robbing them blind baby."

Bad Operation have released a video for their new song “Rico”. The video was filmed at The Hoot & Hollar Inn in New Orleans and was directed and edited by Mitch Wells. The song is off their upcoming album EVERYTHING MUST GO which will be out on April 24 via Community Records and Bad Time Records. Bad Operation are currently touring the US as part of the 'Bad Time Records Tour' and released their self-titled album, Bad Operation, in 2020. Check out the video below.

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Today marks the release of the new album by Dublin’s The Scratch. The album is called Pull Like A Dog and features ten tracks that showcase their unique blend of traditional Irish music, punk, and metal. We caught up with the band to hear the stories behind each of the songs on the album. Pull Like A Dog is available everywhere now via Sony Music. Listen to the album and read the track-by-track breakdown below!

Today marks the release of the new split record by American Sacred Music and ameokama. It is called Ash in My Mouth/SHIN MUSUME DOJOJI and features four tracks by American Sacred Music and one 20-minute track by ameokama. American Sacred Music's songs are “Hose to Exhaust Pipe”, “Mechanical Worship”, “loose dread, worsening”, and “Valley of Obsolescence”. ameokama's song is called "SHIN MUSUME DOJOJI". The artwork for the split was created by Aki McCullough and AP Lewis. We caught up with AP Lewis of American Sacred Music and Aki McCullough of ameokama to hear the stories behind each of the songs. ameokama's US tour with Hayley Elizabeth starts tomorrow and she will be playing the inagural Distress Fest in Chicago in June. Listen to Ash in My Mouth/SHIN MUSUME DOJOJI and read the track-by-track breakdown below!