Ethan Millman

Rolling Stone • 16th January 2025

Eight Figures for 'The Big Bang Theory'? Inside the Lucrative World of TV Theme Songs

For a lucky few, a composition on an enduring, popular show can rake in millions of dollars and be, as one songwriter puts it, “the gift that keeps on giving”

Rolling Stone • 27th November 2024

U.S. Border Agents Seize $18 Million of Fake Gibson Guitars

U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed one of the largest counterfeit instrument busts in history on Tuesday, announcing a seizure of millions of dollars of fake Gibson guitars.

Rolling Stone • 1st October 2024

'It Is Time to Break It Up': Inside the DOJ's Blockbuster Lawsuit Against Live Nation

Rolling Stone spoke with the U.S.'s top trustbuster Jonathan Kanter, getting the deepest look yet on the lawsuit that could break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster and reshape the concert industry as we know it.

Rolling Stone • 18th September 2024

LANY's Paul Klein Nearly Died. Then He Got Right Back on the Road

Three months after a near-death car accident, Lany's Paul Klein opens up about the experience and recovery, and how he found God again.

Rolling Stone • 16th September 2024

Hip-Hop Is Topping the Charts Again -- If You're Over 30

While younger artists like Ice Spice and Latto have generated huge buzz, it’s the older rappers who carried the genre’s chart dominance in the 2010s (or earlier) that are mainly responsible for the chart-toppers this year, leading some in the industry to wonder who's going carry the torch.

Rolling Stone • 4th September 2024

Feds Indict Musician on Landmark Massive Streaming Fraud Charges

Federal investigators have indicted a North Carolina man over a scheme in which he allegedly used bot accounts and hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs to earn more than $10 million in royalty payments from the major streaming services. The case is a landmark development in the still-developing music streaming market, with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York calling it the first criminal case involving artificially inflated music streaming. In the i...

Rolling Stone • 4th September 2024

The Guess Who End Decades-Long Legal Battle: 'An Impossible Task'

The Guess Who‘s founding singer, Burton Cummings, and guitarist Randy Bachman acquired the trademark to their former band’s name, ending a bitter dispute over the legacy of one of Canada’s most famed classic rock acts.

Rolling Stone • 3rd September 2024

Everything That Went Right (And Wrong) During Oasis' Ticket Sale

Oasis’ reunion predictably overloaded ticketing platforms over the weekend as millions of fans queued for tickets, putting the perennially challenging ticketing marketplace at center stage again.

Rolling Stone • 28th August 2024

Concert Venues Accuse Yelp of Pushing Fake Tickets

The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) is calling out Yelp over claims that the review site is putting misleading or fake concert ticket listings on venues’ Yelp pages, with NIVA sending a letter to the company’s CEO Jeremy Stoppelman late Tuesday demanding the listings get taken down.

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.