Of Monsters and Men came to New York City to perform on the first day the 2013 Governors Ball music festival, and Billboard’s cameras were there to chronicle this day in the life of the Icelandic folk-poppers. Though it was exceptionally rainy, the dense mud and heavy winds weren’t enough to keep members Nanna Bryndís…

Good week for Columbia‘s Nine Inch Nails, whose return is a most welcome development in PoMoland (“Haunted” also got added at SiriusXM’s Alt Nation, as we noted earlier). Meanwhile, Thirty Seconds to Mars landed on KROQ and Jason Flom‘s teen discovery Lorde got the “Royals” treatment at crosstown station KYSR. Here’s what else is new…

Bravado, the global merchandising arm of Universal Music Group, has announced a deal with Apple Corps., the management boutique founded by the Beatles in 1967, covering rights to Beatles merchandise in North America, making UMG, for all intents and purposes, the home of the Beatles in North America. As today’s statement put it, the deal…

As forecast last week, rock band Queens of the Stone Age earns its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The group’s new album, . . . Like Clockwork, opens atop the list with 91,000 sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The new set is its first for Matador Records, which also…