Ryan M. Book, The Music Times

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  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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