In all the '90s retrospectives that have been going around lately, not too many people have been talking about 10,000 Maniacs, the hugely popular early-'90s college rockers, or about frontwoman Natalie Merchant, who launched a big solo career with the release of her 1995 debut album Tigerlily. (Check out Stephen Deusner's Stereogum piece on Merc...

YBN Cordae, one of the more exciting young rappers on the rise, is releasing his debut album The Lost Boy this Friday. Yesterday he followed up early previews "Have Mercy" and "Bad Idea" with the project's best single yet, "RNP," which features Anderson .Paak and was produced by J. Cole. (Cole's involvement was especially notable…

The Tom Petty estate and Steve Earle are two others suing the record label giant.Soundgarden and Hole are two of the acts suing Universal Music Group.Several artists have filed class-action lawsuits against Universal Music Group over allegations that it failed to report the full extent of damage caused by a 2008 warehouse fire. Read more: Hole...

Yesterday, a New York Times feature revealed that thousands upon thousands of master tapes from artists like Louis Armstrong, Janet Jackson, and Tupac were destroyed in a 2008 fire at Universal Studios Hollywood. Although the fire itself was public knowledge, the loss of Universal Music Group's recordings was kept secret, with even the artists a...

Howard Stern has long proclaimed himself to be the "King of All Media," but after reaching the top in radio, TV, the big screen and the New York Times bestseller list, the SiriusXM satellite radio icon has one last medium he's eager to vanquish: the Billboard Hot 100 chart. After weeks of hype, Stern invited…