U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland at a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. on May 23, 2024. In a lawsuit, the Department of Justice seeks to break up Live Nation, alleging that the parent company of Ticketmaster has hurt consumers and violated antitrust laws by…

Taylor Swift, “Tortured Poets Department.” It didn’t take long for Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department to completely take over the internet. Did it really leak or was that an AI trick? Do real fans listen early? Are these songs about Matty Healy? The Tortured Poets Department Taylor Swift Republic,…

Taylor Swift attends attends the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 2024. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy. A nation of Swifties knew that something was coming at the Grammys—it was just a matter of what it would be. Conventional…

Taylor Swift accepts the Album Of The Year award for “Midnights” during the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 2024. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy. Every Grammy Awards have own storyline, and the 2024 edition may end up being…

Insert Foot is cool with Taylor Swift but less so with the NFL and the Super Bowl. Let’s talk Tay-Tay, Trav-Trav and how, yes, of course the biggest story in professional football continues right through the Super Bowl, because how could it not? The points: In this corner, the…

We’ve used this image a lot to end every year since 2016. Design: Roman Gokhman. There’s a tradition at RIFF, as well as most other sites, to spend the last week of the year doing Best-Of stories. Best of the site’s work, best of the year, best all sorts…

RIFF photographers’ favorite concert photos in 2023 included these shots of Arctic Monkeys, Future, Karol G, Kim Petras, Lil Wayne, Lupe Fiasco, Måneskin, MisterWives, Mr. Bungle, Muse, NF, P!nk, Post Malone, Queen, Static-X, Taylor Swift, Isley Brothers and Zach Bryan. We asked our photographers to share their favorite concert…

Insert Foot on the powerful Taylor-Swift-loving women of the world. It’s become obvious we’re stuck with Taylor Swift for the rest of our natural lives … and maybe beyond. Maybe the rest of her life as well. Which could be centuries. She’s almost 34, born in December 1989. So…

Taylor Swift, “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” Each “Taylor’s Version” release offers a new opportunity to relive a Taylor Swift era through the lens of time. These records have their own personality and cultural signposts. With 1989 comes the most significant album in Swift’s repertoire. If Red bridged country with pop, 1989 was…

Taylor Swift fans (called Swifties) Sophia Tesfandrias and Sophia Chen, of Oakland, and Anahita Asudani, of San Mateo, show off their friendship bracelets while waiting to enter Levi’s Stadium for the Taylor Swift concert in Santa Clara on July 28, 2023. Steve Carlson/STAFF. SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Several lines…