Clad in leather, Rickenbacker guitars in hand, Detroit’s The Romantics looked more like a gang than a band when they burst on the music scene in the early 1980s — a gang with guitars. They unleashed a ...

It might not be a surprise that, more than 35 years after the release of the song “What I Like About You,” that hit remains the most popular song for new wave group The Romantics. Many music acts from ...

Can a band that licenses a song be sued for making a cover version sound too much like the original? That's the core issued raised in an unusual publicity rights suit filed in Detroit by '80s rockers ...

Members of rock band the Romantics have sued Activision Publishing over its "Guitar Hero Encore, Rocks the 80's" videogame, which uses a version the band's "What I Like About You" recorded by… By ...