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Pussy Riot Member Disappears While Being Transferred Between Prisons
The most engaging political activity in the music world in recent years, the conflict between Pussy Riot and the Russian government, has taken a seemingly dire turn. Band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has gone missing amid a recent prison transfer. -
Waylon Jennings' Grandson Secretly Films Music Video in Jail [WATCH]
A) Waylon Jennings' grandson, Struggle Jennings, is a rapper. B)He and his crew fooled a jail in Tennessee into letting them shoot a music video while he's incarcerated for drug charges. -
Marvin Gaye's Family brings lawsuit against Robin Thicke, EMI
It's been a long while since Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris (his friends know him as T.I.) filed a lawsuit looking to rule out any suggestions that the trio stole from Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" when recording their own "Blurred Lines," the biggest song of 2013 thus far. The Gaye estate has finally gotten around to filing their countersuit that alleges the exact opposite, and they've included music publisher EMI among their targets. -
Back of The Billboards: '12 Stories' by Brandy Clark
Society always celebrates the records that top the Billboard 200 album chart. Back of The Billboards is a Music Times weekly segment that looks at the opposite end: the new record that finished closest to the back of the Billboard 200 for the previous week. We hope to give a fighting chance to the bands you haven't heard of. -
Hans Zimmer Assembles 'Supergroup' for 'Incredible Spiderman' Soundtrack
Hans Zimmer has worked with some big names during his career scoring films, and he brought them all for 'The Amazing Spider-man 2.' -
The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers Headlining Snowbombing 2014
Summer (and spring in warmer climes) tends to be the most popular season for music festivals, which is reasonable. It's warm. And most people want to be warm when they're at a music festival. Electronic music has been defying the trend for several years however, by pairing two likely hobbies, EDM and snowboarding, for cold weather fun. Snowbombing, an electronic music festival held at a ski resort in Mayrhofen, Austria, does just that. It was recently announced that British acts The Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers would be headlining the 2014 version of the event. The latter will perform a DJ set. -
Kanye West Cancels Three More 'Yeezus' Tour Dates
Kanye West and team have postponed three more dates from the "Yeezus" tour due to damage to stage equipment. Representatives for West announced on Friday that the upcoming shows in Denver, Minneapolis and Vancouver would need to be rescheduled, although new dates have not been announced as of press time. -
One Direction Sells Out Seven Straight Sydney Shows
One Direction managed to sell out seven straight shows at the arena , totaling more than 81,542 tickets, beating the previous record by around 7,000 attendees. Metallica previously held the record, during its 2010 tour (when the venue was still called the Acer Arena). -
The Band Perry Tries European Tour to Build International Fan Base
The Band Perry may be taking a slight risk when they embark on a European tour on November 8, but they're hoping that the month-long sojourn into Europe will reward its fans across the pond, and perhaps even pick up some new listeners. -
Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean and George Strait to headline the Bayou Superfest
Another day, another lineup for another 2014 country music festival: The list of performers for the Bayou Country Superfest was released Wednesday night, and they ain't messing around. The festival-- which takes place the weekend of May 23, 24 and 25-has a number of acts opening that would easily be headliners at lesser festivals. Check it out: -
Eminem Apologizes to Mom on New Song 'Headlights'
Eminem was notorious during his first years of fame, not only for baiting censors with obscene and offensive lyrics, but for his family history as well. Besides his issues with his wife Kim, his bad relationship with mother Debbie Mathers was also a frequent plot point. Now, the rapper will be burying the hatchet on The Marshall Mathers LP 2. The song "Headlights" spends a significant amount of time apologizing for his past actions. -
James Blake Wins Mercury Prize over David Bowie, Others
James Blake surprised English music fans by taking home the Mercury Prize, an annual award given out for the best album by British or Irish performers. -
Stevie Wonder to Perform 'Songs in The Key of Life' at Christmas Benefit
Stevie Wonder hasn't released a new record in more than eight years, but the R&B legend will be coming back at listeners in a big way when 2014 comes around. The pianist confirmed rumors from earlier in the year that he'd begun work on a new album, and one-upped them by announcing that he may release as many as three new LPs next year. -
Lorde Tops Download Charts with 'Royals' as Gaga Debuts New Song 'Do What U Want'
A lot of moving and shaking in this week's Digital Downloads Top 10, thanks to a couple of debut albums and a couple debut singles, Let's see what's going on. -
Katy Perry and 'Prism' Dominate Bad Album Sales Week
The bad news for the music industry: This week was a weak one for album sales, totaling around 4.54 million total records sold, the lowest weekly total since Nielsen began compiling the stats in 1991. Considering that Lady Gaga sold more than a million by herself when 'Born This Way' debuted in 2011, we're sure the music biz can't wait for 'ARTPOP' to drop next week. For now, here's the results from last week's sales.
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