When Tiësto plays a festival — in the next few months he’s got Electric Daisy Carnival Ultra Europe Tomorrowland and Made in America on his schedule — his sets last for little more than an hour Last night before a New York City gig celebrating the release of new LP A Town… Source    

Three years after Lady Gaga was accused of plagiarism and hit with a lawsuit a judge has thrown the case out In 2011 singer Rebecca Francescatti sued the Artpop singer claiming that the Born This Way hit “Judas” was a rip-off of Francescatti’s own 1999 track “Juda” The Hollywood Reporter… Source    

Brad Paisley told Rolling Stone Country earlier this month that he wanted his next album to “feel like a party” and he certainly accomplishes that with its title track “Moonshine in the Trunk” is an uptempo adventure that could’ve been the soundtrack to a Dukes of Hazzard episode (In fact… Source    

TV on the Radio continue to do all the promotion that comes with releasing a new album without actually releasing a new album The Brooklyn quintet has already lined up a good chunk of festival dates including Pemberton Riot Fest Denver and the recently announced Treasure Island fest Now 4/5ths… Source    

The Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider continues to find itself embroiled in legal drama Following a February 20th train incident that resulted in the death of camera assistant Sarah Jones the production company – Allman included – has been sued by Jones’ family and crewmembers who were injured when a… Source    

Twenty years ago Richard James better known as Aphex Twin planned to release an LP under the name Caustic Window but the record only made it to a test-pressing and that test-pressing only made it to the hands of four people According to James Thomas the man who set up… Source    

Prosecutors will not pursue the misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges against Paul Simon and Edie Brickell following their minor altercation in April The couple who married in 1992 and has three children together did not appear in court for the decision according to The Associated Press Because the court has decided… Source    

Gearheads rejoice A number of items used by Lou Reed and his band over the years are going up for auction on eBay The current listings include two Kurzweil keyboards a vintage distortion rack mount with foot switch and a Pendulum Stereo Preamp for acoustic instruments plus a footswitch and three preamp… Source    

Katy Perry has launched a new label Metamorphosis Music with Capitol Records and revealed the signing of pop singer Ferras her first artist She executive produced the LA-based Jordanian singer-songwriter’s latest release a self-titled EP which Metamorphosis released digitally Tuesday Perry duets with Ferras on the EP’s “Legends Never… Source    

The battle between YouTube and various independent record labels including those representing Adele and Arctic Monkeys will intensify over the next few days with an alleged “mass cull” of music videos from YouTube’s main website according to the Financial Times The State of Streaming Music Rating the Services On Tuesday YouTube confirmed… Source