Nightclub owners and such groups as the Australian Hotels Association and Club Australia have teamed up against plans to increase the fees they have to pay for music.

Staff at the Bedforshire-based Star Events would hardly have been surprised by U.K. chancellor Gordon Brown's revelations about how little it would cost to educate all the kids in the world as they're already funding a school in Africa.

The Raconteurs, the band featuring Jack White of The White Stripes and singer/songwriter Brendan Benson, will be known in Australia as The Saboteurs.

AEG Facilities, which books and manages the Anaheim, Calif., Convention Center and Arena, has a new tenant in that building with the announcement of a deal to bring an NBA Developmental League expansion team that will be affiliated with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Ford Park in Beaumont, Texas, got some long-awaited good news April 10th when local officials selected a contractor and voted to spend $1.9 million to whip the SMG-operated complex's amphitheatre into shape in time for a May 19th event.

Las Vegas' Riviera Hotel & Casino has been sold to a group of private investors for about $211.5 million after months of sporadic negotiations.

City traders still seem convinced that it's only a matter of time before EMI is the subject of a bid from Time Warner, as the British music company's shares pushed up to 257p during April 9.

Any questions U.K. media were asking about the £160 Madonna ticket being "a rip-off" were quickly dispelled as she sold out her seven Wembley Arena shows in fewer than 24 hours.

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's probe into "pay-for-play" practices between radio chains and record labels has resulted in some unintended consequences.

Two pint-sized KISS tribute acts have been at odds in recent weeks, complete with a cease-and-desist order and a confrontation at a nightclub.

The surviving members of The Doors have set aside their differences and are collaborating on some notable projects, including a Doors-themed show in Las Vegas.