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As the legal battle over Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us” gets underway, both sides have retained top attorneys – with Drake hiring a lawyer who battles conspiracy theories and Universal Music Group turning to one of its favorite law firms.
Filed last week, Drake’s case accuses UMG of defaming him by boosting Lamar’s track, which attacks Drake as a “certified pedophile” and has become a chart-topping hit in its own right. The star says his own label “waged a campaign against him,” spreading a “malicious narrative” that it knew was false.
The courtroom showdown has drawn intense publicity, and it’s not hard to see why: It pits one of the world’s biggest stars against the world’s biggest music company after a lucrative, decade-plus partnership, over a smash hit song by a critically-adored rapper – one who’s set to perform at the Super Bowl next month, by the way. It also represents something of an unprecedented move in the history of hip hop: A lawsuit over a rap beef that allegedly went too far.
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To handle that kind of high-profile case, Drake has hired Michael Gottlieb, a former federal prosecutor who once served as a former associate counsel in the Obama White House. Gottlieb is currently a partner at the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, a national firm with a well-known music industry practice that has repeatedly been featured on Billboard‘s yearly Top Music Lawyers.
Based on his recent work, Gottlieb is unlikely to be intimidated by the media attention surrounding Drake’s lawsuit. He’s currently representing two Georgia poll workers in efforts to collect a huge verdict against Rudy Guiliani over his lies about election fraud, a case that just settled last week after high-profile court hearings in New York. He’s also repping Blake Lively in her battles against “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, including her harassment case as well as Baldoni’s libel countersuit – cases that have transcended the courtroom and crossed firmly into the messier world of public relations.
In Lively’s suit, she says she was the victim of a sophisticated “digital retaliation campaign” centered “manipulation” of social media designed to destroy her reputation across the internet. Those kinds of claims are nothing new for Gottlieb, who has made a name for himself in recent years filing defamation lawsuits on behalf of alleged victims of online disinformation.
In 2023, he won the $148 million defamation verdict against Giuliani. Before that, he represented the brother of Seth Rich, a Democratic staffer whose murder became grist for right-wing conspiracy theories, as well as the owners of the D.C. pizzeria at the center of Pizzagate — an infamous online hoax centered on false claims of child sex trafficking that later sparked a real-life shooting.
In bringing Drake’s case to court, Gottlieb has raised similar allegations against UMG. He argues that the label used secret payments and bot streams to help spread a “dangerous conspiracy theory” about his client on the internet, putting the rapper at risk of serious physical harm. He even cites the Pizzagate shooting by name, calling a shooting at Drake’s house the “2024 equivalent” of that earlier incident: “UMG’s greed yielded real world consequences.”
Defending against those claims, court records show that UMG has retained the law firm Sidley Austin — one of the largest of the country’s elite “BigLaw” firms, and one that has repeatedly repped the music giant in past legal battles.
Sidley attorneys represented UMG when the label was the named as a defendant in the copyright lawsuit filed by Marvin Gaye’s heirs over Robin Thicke and Pharrell’s chart-topper “Blurred Lines” – a case that transfixed the music industry for years. The firm also handled certain stages of a long-running copyright case filed by UMG’s Capitol Records against the video sharing site Vimeo over internet takedown rules.
More recently, Sidley defended UMG against a class action accusing the label of unfairly refusing to allow hundreds of artists win back control of their copyrights — eventually winning a key ruling that effectively gutted the case. The firm also won a decision last year killing another case filed by the hip hop duo Black Sheep, who accused UMG of securing its stake in Spotify by giving the streamer a “sweetheart” licensing rate that left artists underpaid by millions.
The firm has also handled numerous music matters outside the UMG orbit. Sidley attorneys have also repped Warner Music Group – including in transactional work like the label’s joint venture deal with Elliot Grainge’s label 10K Projects and its $400 million acquisition of 300 Entertainment, as well as defending the company against litigation like a copyright termination case filed by Dwight Yoakam.
As of Monday, the only Sidley attorney to formally appear in Drake’s case is Nicholas P. Crowell, a New York attorney focused on complex commercial litigation, though he’ll almost certainly be joined by other firm attorneys as the case progresses. Top members of the music team at Sidley include litigator Rollin A. Ransom and deals attorney Matthew C. Thompson – both of whom have also repeatedly been named to Billboard’s list of Top Music Lawyers.
If recent work is any indication, the attorneys at Sidley will take an aggressive approach to a lawsuit that UMG itself has already publicly blasted as “illogical” and “frivolous.”
Ransom and other Sidley attorneys are currently defending UMG against Limp Bizkit’s $200 million royalties lawsuit, a case filed in October that claims the band had “not seen a dime in royalties” because of “systemic” and “fraudulent” policies. The lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the case just a month later, ripping the lawsuit’s “entire narrative” as “fiction” and “based on a fallacy.” Last week, a judge sided with those arguments and rejected core aspects of the band’s case.
The firm will file its first response to Drake’s lawsuit in March.
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Another in depth examination on Diddy’s alleged misdoings is on the way. Identification Discovery is set to release a documentary titled The Fall of Diddy.
As per Variety, the ID Network is throwing their hat into the Diddy documentary ring. The Fall of Diddy attempts to pull back the curtain on the mogul’s personal and professional life. Here several of his former friends, staff and associates are interviewed and the picture they paint of Diddy is a man with many more secrets. One of the most memorable moments was what his short-lived girlfriend Kat Pasion had to share about her experience dating him back in 2019.
While she says everything was great in the very beginning she alleged that he tried to coerce her with drugs and even threatened to have her deported if she ever betrayed him. “This man is sick. He uses his resources and what he thinks he can do for you and thinks that that can band-aid and solve the horrible things he does to people because he thinks he’s God,” she said.
Former bodyguard Roger Bonds also confirmed he saw what he believed to be male sex workers when leaving hotels that Diddy and Cassie were staying at. “I’ve seen questionable things, but I never knew exactly what was going on. It’s been times where Cassie and Diddy would just go to the hotel for a weekend, and I would see guys get off the elevator,” said Bonds.
Diddy’s legal team has refuted the claims and part of their formal statement is said to be included in project. “These documentaries are rushing to cash in on the media circus surrounding Mr. Combs,” it read. “This production is clearly intended to present a one-sided and prejudicial narrative. As we’ve said before, Mr. Combs cannot respond to every publicity stunt or facially ridiculous claim. He has full confidence in the facts and the judicial process, where the truth will prevail: the accusations against him are pure fiction.”
The Fall of Diddy is set to premiere Jan. 27 at 9 p.m. ET on ID. You can view the trailer below.
In early December, Island Records co-chairmen/co-CEOs Justin Eshak and Imran Majid traveled to the north coast of Jamaica to visit the 87-year-old founder of the label they now run, Chris Blackwell. The executives were coming off one of the best years in Island’s recent history, and three weeks before their visit, two of Island’s recent breakthroughs, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, both scored Grammy nominations in the categories of record, song and album of the year and best new artist — the first time in history a label had two acts nominated for each of those honors in the same year.
That wasn’t the reason for the trip, however. It was about “respect,” Majid says. The two had visited Blackwell at his Goldeneye resort in 2021, before they officially took over Island at the beginning of 2022, to meet him and pay homage to the institution he had launched in 1959, which became the label home of Bob Marley, U2, Cat Stevens and Grace Jones.
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This time, “It kind of felt like visiting family or a friend,” Eshak says. “As opposed to last time when we were like, ‘Oh, f–k!’ ”
During those three years, Eshak and Majid have taken Island from a label with an illustrious past but moribund present to one of the premier destinations for artists to break — and 2024 was when it all came together. First came Carpenter, who scored her first top 40 hit on the Hot 100 in January with “Feather” before steadily building momentum through the spring. “Espresso,” her first top 10, followed, and by June, Carpenter had her first No. 1 with “Please Please Please.” At the end of August, her album Short n’ Sweet debuted atop the Billboard 200.
Roan’s ascent was almost simultaneous, fueled by strong word-of-mouth and a series of increasingly bigger festival appearances that crested in the summer, when her single “Good Luck, Babe!” reached No. 4 on the Hot 100; her album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, climbed into the top five of the Billboard 200; and she broke an attendance record for her Lollapalooza performance in Chicago. So when the Grammy nominations arrived, Island’s chief executives were not surprised. “Once the two of them started to control the zeitgeist,” Eshak says, “it just felt like the appropriate result.”
From the outside, the rise of the two artists — one a former Disney star who refashioned herself through clever live shows and radio, the other a budding queer pop icon who had been dumped by the major-label system early on and rebooted her career by touring and building a fan community — appeared to have reached that point through different paths. Eshak and Majid don’t see it that way. “You almost had to be at the shows before the success to understand,” Majid says. “That was what we bet on really early — [they were] artists that had such an engaged fan base from touring, streaming almost came secondary to that. At one point we were like, ‘Once this hits the masses, it could have a global impact.’ ”
By mid-2024, the narrative was set: Carpenter and Roan were leading a roster of artists who built cross-sectional fan bases that pushed beyond typical genre or cultural tropes. And for the first time in years, Island Records had returned to the roots Blackwell had nurtured in the latter half of the 20th century — a label where artists felt comfortable, heard and supported, and where good music was more important than commerciality.
Which is not to say that Island hasn’t succeeded commercially. The label ended 2024 with a 2.49% current market share — quadrupling the 0.62% it had in 2023. Island’s market share is included under Republic Records, but broken out on its own, it is the ninth-best of last year despite a wide reorganization at Universal Music Group in February that included extensive layoffs that affected all labels at the company.
Eshak and Majid’s greatest achievement, then, was to take a label with 30 dedicated employees (sharing some services like radio and marketing within REPUBLIC Collective) and create a culture that let its artists and staff flourish creatively, commercially and artistically.
They are now reaping the rewards. As 2024 wound down, new signees Gigi Perez and Lola Young landed their first Hot 100 hits, “Sailor Song” at No. 22 and “Messy” at No. 54, respectively.
Now, some in the industry are comparing Eshak and Majid’s success to that of John Janick’s at Interscope, which has turned young artists like Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo into superstars at a time when it’s becoming increasingly difficult to break artists.
The trick is to maintain that success and future-proof against inevitable cold streaks. “What humbles you is when you think you have magic and it doesn’t work,” Majid says. “Justin and I are fortunate that we have 20 years of experience of what we think the right attitude to have is and what is not.”
“We just feel like there’s a new wave of artists that fit our ethos and that we can plug into what we do and give them a bespoke campaign,” Eshak says. “And we feel like we have the team. It felt really great going to Jamaica. Imran and I were sitting there like, ‘Our team’s got this.’ ”
This story appears in the Jan. 25, 2025, issue of Billboard.
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Government files on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be declassified for the public, due to an executive order by President Donald Trump.
On Thursday (Jan. 23), President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to declassify and release their files surrounding the life and assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The executive order “requires the review within 15 days of ‘records related to’ the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and within 45 days related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”
The King family released a statement as the news broke: “The assassination of our father is a deeply personal loss we have endured for 56 years. We hope to review the files as a family before they are made public.” Trump gave no reason as to why Dr. King’s files were being released. The King family has long believed that the known assassin, James Earl Ray, was aided by other forces as part of a larger plot.
The FBI told reporters that it was “complying” with the executive order, which “also requires designated agencies to submit a plan to the White House for ‘the full and complete release of these records.’ The FBI is identifying records responsive to the EO and will work with the Department of Justice and ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) respectively.” Concerning the files on Dr. King, it is expected that the FBI will declassify and release their records on their surveillance of him, as well as those documents concerning his assassination and records from their covert COINTELPRO operation investigating him.
During Trump’s first presidential term, he had publicly vowed to release the documents fully. He chose not to go forward at the behest of intelligence agencies, instead opting to place redactions to protect sensitive information. Trump has long floated conspiracy theories about the assassinations of President Kennedy, saying before signing: “That’s a big one, huh? A lot of people are waiting for this for a long — for years, for decades.” His adviser and nominee for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has also declared the CIA was responsible for his father’s death. Trump instructed his aide to give Kennedy the pen he had signed the executive order with after signing.
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DJ Akademiks is one of the most notable figures in the streaming space and his popularity has pushed him to an audience of younger viewers who engage with his content. However, DJ Akademiks is facing serious allegations of attempting to groom a teenage boy after asking him an inappropriate sexual question while later offering up an apology some feel came up short.
DJ Akademiks, 35, was in a livestream event with PlaqueBoyMax and the streamer’s moderator, NourGxd, who is 15. Ak, real name Livingston Allen, can be heard asking NourGxd if he would engage in sexual activities with Max. NourGxd shot down the advance by citing his age, causing Ak to double down and ask the teen if he would have sex with Max’s sister, who reportedly is over the age of 18.
Max seemed to join in on the fun and threatened to cut the teen from the streaming feed before Ak kept dreaming up odd scenarios including asking, quote, “You don’t know another 15-year-old you can bust down?” among other quips. NourGxd, seemingly uncomfortable at this point, expressed repeatedly that he’s not gay nor interested in doing what was suggested. Another streamer then asks NourGxd for his address to send strippers to his home.
The stream, which took place last Thursday (Jan. 23), went viral and has ignited a strong rallying cry accusing DJ Akademiks of grooming the teen and highlighting his defense of Drake, who has previously been slapped with similar allegations involving minors although those claims remain unfounded.
Ak has acknowledged his comments to NourGxd but most have taken note that the acknowledgment and the misplaced bravado attached to it nullifies any good intentions DJ Akademiks may have had. Reactions, including comments from rival Freddie Gibbs, Nitty Scott MC, and Meek Mill to the livestream going viral and Ak’s weak walk back can be viewed below.
We will share the video featuring Ak’s comments but do warn that the content might be triggering for some so proceed cautiously.
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It goes without saying that on the upcoming third season of Max’s rich-people-behaving-badly-in-paradise smash, The White Lotus, things are not going great. As usual, director/writer/creator Mike White has gathered a yacht-load of A-list and character actor killers for the latest edition of the show, described in a release as a social satire set “at an exclusive Thai resort,” which once again follows the exploits of guests and employees over the span of a tumultuous week.
The new trailer for the eight-episode seasons slated to premiere on Feb. 16 also puts a further spotlight on BLACKPINK‘s LISA, who makes her acting debut in the series alongside stars Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walter Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jason Isaacs, Michella Monoghan, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Natasha Rothwell, the latter serving as the only known returning cast member from season two.
As in a previous sneak peek, we see Lisa (listed in the credits by her full name: Lalisa Manobal), as both a prim staff health mentor at the resort, as well as a dancer in a traditional glittering headpiece entertaining guests at a late-night beach party.
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Over a montage of sex, fireworks and screaming, an off-camera voice warns: “at the end of the week, you will be an entirely different person,” followed by the maxim/warning, “what happens in Thailand, stays in Thailand.” The eponymous resort is, of course, the real star, serving as a hedonistic playground for the rich and entitled, and, if the trailer tells us anything, as well as the site of at least one murder.
Bibb, Coon and Monoghan play a trio of longtime friends escaping on a girls’ trip, with Lisa making her first appearance as a smiling, waving guest greeter as the series stars arrive on a luxury yacht. “I hope you enjoy Thailand,” she says with a smile to Posey and husband, wealthy businessman Timothy Ratliff (Isaacs).
As in past seasons, the first trailer introduces us to the couples, families and friends looking for a reboot getaway, immediately setting up some of the simmering tensions/personality conflicts in their relationships. Lisa’s character, named Mook, gives a wan smile and joins a fellow employee for a traditional dance mid-way through the preview, with a voiceover intoning, “everyone comes to Thailand, they’re either hiding from someone or they’re looking for someone.”
When Isaacs’ character learns that his fortune has been wiped out things begin going haywire, with a masked gunman holding up a luxury shop, leading a White Lotus security guard to lament “I don’t want to hurt anyone” as he hits the gun range for practice.
“You have to be stronger than this to do this job,” Lisa’s Mook tells him in Thai. As tensions begin to flare cracks show in the various relationships, leading a final, chaotic montage of sex, partying, gunplay and, as usual, at least one bodybag. As with past seasons, White has kept the details of the plot a closely guarded secret so far.
Lisa follows fellow BLACKPINK member JENNIE into the acting lane, with the latter making her debut in the one-season-and-done HBO music drama The Idol, which starred Lily-Rose Depp and Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye.
Watch the season 3 The White Lotus trailer below. The White Lotus season 3 debuts on HBO at 9 p.m. on Feb. 16 and will be available to stream on Max afterwards.
Kane Brown and Jelly Roll have partnered for a rock-fueled track that addresses depression and despair. Meanwhile, Lauren Alaina honors the strong women who have raised and supported her. Meanwhile, Kashus Culpepper and Hudson Westbrook both issue new music, while duo Pitney Meyer (Mo Pitney and Johnny Meyer) release a new bluegrass collaboration.
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Check out all of these and more in Billboard‘s roundup of the best songs from country, Americana and/or bluegrass of the week below.
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Kane Brown feat. Jelly Roll, “Haunted”
These two headlining artists team up for an unfiltered, gut-punch of a song aimed at supporting listeners who have (or do) struggle with depression and/or thoughts of self-harm. Jelly Roll’s career has been defined, in part, by his musical mission to give a voice to those who have weathered addictions, mental health issues and a myriad of hardships. Meanwhile, Brown, long known for straddling musical genres, has remained consistent in being open with fans Together, Jelly Roll’s charismatic, dramatic vocal makes for a dynamic pairing with Brown’s grounded, foreboding vocal, as they sing about how wealth doesn’t always equal happiness and contentment, nor is it a shield from persistent, invasive thoughts. The song’s slow groove builds in force with every verse, with a crash of searing guitars mirroring the intensity of the song’s message.
Lauren Alaina, “Those Kind of Women”
In her latest release, Lauren Alaina honors the strong, supportive women in her life — women who throughout her life have given constant support, a shoulder to cry on, someone to celebrate with, and women with wisdom to share. It’s a tender ballad, with Alaina braiding her warm vocal with lyrics laced with imagery of sweet tea, emergency funds tucked away in coffee cans and a childhood surrounded by the music of “Dolly and Dylan.” “Those Kind of Women” was written by Lainey Wilson, Derek George, Lynn Hutton and Monty Criswell. Alaina also had a sweet surprise for fans at the end of the video for “Those Kind of Women,” revealing that she is expecting her first child this summer.
Kashus Culpepper, “Jenni”
Alabama-born singer-songwriter Culpepper doesn’t need much to issue a compelling song — in this case, he uses little more than guitar, harmonica and his soulful, silky-yet-grainy voice to create this open-hearted love song, inspired by seeing an audience member when he was brought onstage to sing with Zach Bryan during a music festival last year. Culpepper wrote “Jenni” with Jordan Dozzi and Jacob Durrett; on this splendid track, Culpepper offers up his organic sound with a brand of hard-earned, raw realness that can’t be feigned.
Hudson Westbrook, “Mine Tomorrow”
Texas-born Westbrook has broken through in recent months with songs including “5 to 9” and “House Again,” and returns with “Mine Tomorrow,” the first new music since the release of his self-titled EP. This tender track finds Westbrook declaring that his future is secure no matter what happens–as long as his lover is by his side. Westbrook wrote “Mine Tomorrow” with Dan Alley and Ryan Beaver, and Westbrook delivers this laid-back love song with a warm, nonchalant country charm.
Pitney Meyer, “Bear Creek Clay”
Singer-songwriters Mo Pitney and Johnny Meyer recently teamed up for the collaborative bluegrass outfit Pitney Meyer, releasing their latest song, “Bear Creek Clay,” a weaving of fiery bluegrass pickin’ with layered harmonies. The song centers on someone intent on making their home in wilderness, “a place where the water springs forth like a fountain.” The track features Meyer on lead vocals and banjo, Pitney on guitar and harmony, as well as instrumental work from Nate Burie (mandolin), Jenee Fleenor (fiddle) and Blake Pitney (bass). Mo Pitney, of course, is known for his solo country music work, but has long taken inspiration from bluegrass. “Bear Creek Clay” is the third release from this duo, which will issue its debut project, Cherokee Pioneer, in April.
LISA couldn’t be more excited to paint the town red with Doja Cat, whom she called her “dream” duet partner ahead of the duo’s upcoming “Born Again” collaboration with Raye.
In a new interview with Capital Breakfast‘s Jordan North posted Monday (Jan. 27) — seemingly filmed before the BLACKPINK star announced her new project featuring Doja and the “Escapism” musician on Jan. 24 — LISA was immediately ready with her answer when asked which artist is her “dream” collaborator. “I want to team up with Doja Cat,” she said, smiling excitedly.
The Thai performer coyly said that she wasn’t sure if she could call Doja a friend just yet, but noted that they’re both “in the same company.” Both LISA and the “Woman” musician are signed to RCA Records, the former in partnership with her self-owned LLOUD company and the latter through RCA’s Kemosabe Records imprint.
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The interview comes three days after LISA announced that she was joining forces with Doja and Raye on “Born Again,” sharing a chic photograph of the trio posing in glamorous black cocktail dresses on Instagram. The girl group star also revealed at the time that the new track will drop 7 p.m. ET on Feb. 6.
A few weeks after “Born Again,” LISA’s debut solo album, Alter Ego, will arrive Feb. 28. So far, the K-pop phenom has released three singles from the project: “Rockstar,” which reached No. 70 on the Billboard Hot 100, “New Woman” with Rosalia and “Moonlit Floor (Kiss Me).”
Recorded partially in Thailand while LISA was filming The White Lotus — “I don’t sleep,” she joked on Capital Breakfast of making her acting debut and music at the same time — Alter Ego will find the star exploring five different inner personas, each of which have their own names and character traits. Her favorite is one named Vixi, she revealed on the show, because “she’s the bada–, she’s a villain.”
“I was trying so many different kinds of music styles while I was recording,” LISA added of her album. “I was like, ‘Oh, well I’ve never done this kind of stuff before, but it sounds great. Why not just kind of like put all the different styles into the album and call it Alter Ego?’”
As for Doja, the Los Angeles native hasn’t dropped an album since 2023’s Scarlet, which reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200. Her most recent project wasn’t music-related at all, but rather a charitable undertaking supporting wildfire relief in her home city; earlier this month, the Grammy winner unveiled a line of custom merchandise that’ll funnel 100% of its proceeds to the American Red Cross’ efforts in Southern California as the L.A. area rebuilds from the deadly fires that have left tens of thousands of residents displaced with immeasurable damages to the city’s infrastructure.
See the “Born Again” announcement below.
Save this storySaveSave this storySaveThe 2025 lineup for California’s Just Like Heaven music festival has been announced. Vampire Weekend will headline, sharing the bill with TV on the Radio, Bloc Party, Empire of the Sun, and, most notably, a reunion of Jenny Lewis’ beloved emo band Rilo Kiley, who haven’t played a show together since 2008. The one-day festival will take place on May 10 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Scroll down to see the full poster.Formed in 1998, in Silverlake, California, Rilo Kiley first found notoriety when “The Frug,” a song from their self-titled EP that picked up play on MTV’s 120 Minutes. Fans quickly fell in love with Lewis’ unfiltered and witty songwriting, and the band released its full-length debut album, Take Offs and Landings, in 2001. By then, the core lineup of Lewis, her songwriting partner and guitarist Blake Sennett, bassist Pierre de Reeder, and drummer Jason Boesel had solidified, and Rilo Kiley would release three more studio albums over the course of the 2000s: 2002’s The Execution of All Things, 2004’s More Adventurous, and 2007’s Under the Blacklight. While they played their last live shows to date on their Under the Blacklight tour, Rilo Kiley didn’t officially announce their breakup until 2013. Lewis, in particular, has cultivated a successful solo career in the intervening years, releasing the studio albums The Voyager (2014), On the Line (2019), and Joy’all (2023).In a statement about the reunion, Rilo Kiley said, “We are so very excited to come back together for Just Like Heaven in Pasadena, California—Los Angeles. As a band, we began here, and we feel so fortunate to return among so many artists and friends, to this community we hold so dear, in such a beautiful and meaningful place.”Other acts playing Just Like Heaven 2025 include the Drums, Courtney Barnett, Toro y Moi, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Grouplove, and Slowdive, the latter of whom are listed as “very special guests.”Revisit the 2019 feature “Jenny Lewis Escapes the Void.”
AXS, AEG’s ticketing and event access platform, is launching a new global biometric authentication feature for its mobile app across all smart phone devices. The technology marks the first time a ticketing smart phone app utilizes biometric security features, such as fingerprint or facial recognition, to provide users with a secure way to access their […]