People with functioning ears the world over scratched their heads last month when Kirk Johnston, a former member of the band Snowblind Revival, brought a lawsuit against Nickelback for alleged ...

The best explanation for why HARDY and Nickelback's upcoming episode of "CMT Crossroads" works so well is that the emerging superstar singer-songwriter was an impressionable 14-year-old when the ...

A man named Kirk Johnston has filed a lawsuit against Nickelback, Roadrunner Records, Warner Chappell Music, Inc. and Live Nation, stating that the band's 2005 song "Rockstar" is copyright ...

A federal appeals court has rejected a copyright lawsuit that claimed Nickelback ripped off its 2006 hit “Rockstar” from an earlier song called “Rock Star,” ruling that the band can’t be sued simply ...

The judge said the case "borders on the absurd." In a 2021 response, Nickelback said the two songs sound nothing alike, and that "Johnston failed to identify any specific lyrical similarities between ...

Nickelback are many things to many people: some think their music is bottom-level tripe and that frontman Chad Kroeger is a never-ending cringe case, while others find ol’ Chad an extremely generous ...

Jelly Roll doesn’t play it cool. Whether it’s singing and dancing in the audience on music’s biggest night of the year, or pouring his heart out onstage after accepting his latest award, the breakout ...

Last month, a man named Kirk Johnston filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Nickelback over their song "Rockstar," and the band have now responded to his claims. Johnston is a former member ...