• The Beatles' 'Long Tall Sally' EP Showcases Band at Its Most Raucous, Proves Vinyl Sales Can Make Dent in Billboard 200

    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. This week we look at Mexican pop star The Beatles (?) and its new EP ''Long Tall Sally' (?!?).

  • Kesha's Mom Suing Dr. Luke for "PTSD" and Emotional Distress Following Allegations of Rape and Abuse against Daughter

    Unfortunately we have nothing new to report with regard to new music from Kesha but her lawsuit against former producer/mentor Dr. Luke has just gotten even more in-depth. According to reports from Digital Music News, the pop star's mother, Pebe Sebert, has also sued the producer alleging that his implied crimes against her daughter resulted in the parent suffering from emotional breakdowns and "PTSD," resulting in blood pressure levels as high as 265/180.

  • Parklife Text Campaign Offends Those with Deceased Mothers, Earns £70,000 Fine from Information Commissioners' Office

    There are good ideas and bad ideas. Publicists are the professionals you hire to point out when your great ideas might have holes in them that could quickly become horrible ideas. The publicists for the Parklife music festival in Manchester probably should have found some issues with the event's 2014 plot to lure fans to the official after-parties by sending them a text from "Mum." It seems like a cute idea at first...until you consider the inevitable fact that at least a few of the attendees probably have deceased mothers. Anyway, that's one of several reasons why Parklife was fined £70,000 by the British Information Commisioners' Office.

  • GRAMMYs 2015 Nominations: Sam Smith, Taylor Swift, Pharrell Williams Among Early Nominees

    The biggest night in music is just around the corner, even if it's hard to believe that yet another year has passed. Today (Dec. 5), the nominations for the 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards are being rolled out via Twitter and various television appearances. Early on, predicted favorites lead the nominations with Sam Smith, Iggy Azalea, Sia, Taylor Swift and Pharrell Williams all racking up multiple nods.

  • SiriusXM Pays $3.8 Million Across 46 States as Part of Billing and Advertising Settlement

    The attorneys at SiriusXM have been busy. Not only are they dealing with a series of lawsuits involving The Turtles and pre-1972 music, but now they've completed a $3.8 million deal to be paid across 46 states with regard to shifty billing and advertising practices. According to the suit, contracts didn't make it clear to users that the service could renew itself. Users who wished to cancel their subscriptions didn't realize that they needed to take action to do so, or else the company would assume they wished to renew. More problematic is that frequently the prices had increased as well.

  • Pharrell Recieves His Own Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star

    Just when you thought Pharrell couldn't win any more accolades, the former N.E.R.D. frontman has managed to add another to his exhaustive list of prizes, awards and trophies in his possession. Pharrell will leave a long and treasured legacy in the world of music long after he is gone, but up until now there had been no physical monuments to his name. With 7 Grammys already stashed in his trophy case, it seems unlikely he has an award that could come close to that, but he achieved that yesterday. The "Happy" singer was awarded with a Hollywood Walk Of Fame star of his own, the 2537th bellowed upon an esteemed and prestigious celebrity or artist.

  • Questlove Challenges Artists to Be More Activist After Mike Brown & Eric Garner Rulings

    hen Questlove speaks on social issues, people will stop and listen. He has established himself as someone socially aware enough to make statements on the issues facing our society that make sense and spark intelligent debate. In light of the recent Michael Brown and Eric Garner Grand Jury decisions not to indict the cops who killed the two men, Questlove has called up his fellow hip hop to start addressing the issues with an intelligent, socially aware approach that will help spur the issue forward.

  • Lawsuit Alleges Apple Deleted Competitor's Music from Users' iTunes Account to Prevent iPod Use

    Apple might not even produce iPod Classic anymore but antitrust lawsuits never get old. One that might be particularly interesting to the millions of people who owned one of the most successful digital music players in history: Plaintiffs in a suit against the company allege that Apple intentionally deleted music from competing platforms that users attempted to store on iTunes, as recently as 2009.
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