Photo: Rojo/AFP/Getty Axl Rose’s former managers have slapped him with a roughly $1.9 million lawsuit that claims the Guns n’ Roses leader reneged on a verbal agreement from 2008. The $1.9 million represents the 15 percent commission Irving Azoff’s Front Line Management was promised of the estimated $12 million Gn’R have earned so far in [...]

Devendra Banhart has had to cancel the remaining handful of shows on his current tour after breaking his leg in a skateboarding accident. “I wanted to play the shows anyway like in a bed or something but the dr’s didn’t think that was a great idea,” he wrote to fans on his official website. The [...]

Photo: Clark/WireImage Rumors that Beyoncé and husband Jay-Z are expecting their first child together lit up the Web and gossip pages today based on a Media Take Out report that cites a “rock solid” source. The website claims the singer is “fine and resting now” and expected to “continue working through her pregnancy,” and that [...]

Christina Aguilera has relaunched her official website in anticipation of her upcoming album Bionic. A countdown clock is ticking down to tomorrow, when the site promises “Big News” will be revealed. For more on Bionic, check out our Spring Music Preview. The same day SXSW paid tribute to Alex Chilton, Paul Westerberg wrote a New [...]

Photo:Legato/WireImage The Big News: Lady Antebellum’s reign atop the charts came to an end as Ludacris and Gorillaz battled it out and the Atlanta rapper’s Battle of the Sexes took Number One on the Billboard 200 with 137,000 copies sold. Gorillaz landed at Number Two as Plastic Beach moved 112,000 copies. Battle is now Ludacris’ [...]

Photo: Ingram/WireImage The Michael Jackson estate and Sony Music have reportedly agreed on a seven-year, 10-project, $250 million pact that will be the most lucrative in music history, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources close to the negotiation. The Jackson estate is guaranteed an expected $200 million from the deal, which will likely feature [...]

Photo: Kempin/FilmMagic DMX was arrested for violating the terms of his probation, admitting he’d used cocaine over the last nine months, Reuters reports. The rapper is currently in a Phoenix jail. Lady Gaga is coming to Rock Band: the pop star’s first track pack includes “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” “Monster” and “Poker Face” — and [...]

Some grousing from fans greets most posthumous Jimi Hendrix studio releases. And fair enough: Hendrix can’t offer his opinion anymore, and between past dubious product (i.e., the heavily overdubbed Crash Landing) and ongoing estate squabbles, there’s been plenty of sketchy business over the years. But on Valleys of Neptune — a collection of more-or-less previously [...]

Part Kanye West, part Brian Eno, producer-musician Brian Burton — a.k.a. Danger Mouse — has defined himself with his excellent taste in brilliant misfits. His biggest smash was Gnarls Barkley, with whom he turned oddball former Dirty South rapper Cee-Lo into a falsetto swinging soulman on the sublime “Crazy,” triggering moving karaoke performances worldwide. He’s [...]

Photo: Merritt/Getty (Grohl), Mayer/WireImage(Vig) Forget all that talk of a hiatus. The Foo Fighters are getting ready to head back into the studio, Dave Grohl revealed at the Independent Spirit Awards on Friday night. Swigging from a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey, the Foos frontman and Them Crooked Vultures drummer, who had just introduced a [...]

Mark Ronson TITLE TBD JUNE LOWDOWN: “When I make a record, I draw on inspiration I get from other people,” says producer Mark Ronson, who invited members of Kaiser Chiefs and the Zutons, and former Pipettes singer Rose Elinor Dougall, among others, to collaborate on his third solo album. The disc — recorded in New [...]