USA Today Music — The Los Angeles jury makes the award to the legendary producer for royalties from some of Jackson's biggest songs.             more info

New York Post — Quincy Jones, the legendary producer of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album, is expected to take the stand on Thursday to press his case that the late singer’s estate has cheated him out of $30 million. In the expected dramatic showdown, Jones... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Reading back contemporary overviews of music from the end of 1993 it's striking how US rock was grouped together as one intransigent whole, which means that Nirvana, in the year of In Utero and the recording of Unplugged In New York, are usually ... more info

Dlisted — Here’s a little nugget to file under the category of: Things Nobody Asked For. CBS is planning to air an hour long animated Halloween special called Michael Jackson’s Halloween. Unlike the nipped in the bud Joseph Fiennes horror show, this one is... more info

Stereogum — An upcoming sale from the NYC auction house Gotta Have Rock and Roll features a CD containing an album’s worth of previously unheard Michael Jackson songs, Rolling Stone reports. According to the auction house, the disc comes from a "personal fri... more info

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Stereogum — CBS is looking to the music of Michael Jackson for its next project. more info

Sweeping The Nation — Does anyone read these spiels? Maybe we should just save them for the book version that'll never happen. Here's forty top songs (39 of which are on Spotify) from the magnificent pop year of 1982, and no, Dollar's inclusion is not a mistak... more info

The Daily Mail — The model daughter of pop legend Michael Jackson aired her opinions on Twitter following the incident, which prompted fierce criticism from the rapper’s estate. more info

Metal Injection — Eddie Van Halen plus Iron Maiden? Hell yeah. The post IRON MAIDEN's "The Trooper" & MICHAEL JACKSON's "Beat It" Work Really Well As One Song! appeared first on Metal Injection. more info