The Vans Warped Tour presented by Journeys hit Nashville yesterday, where about 12,000 turned out to the Tennessee State Fairgrounds to see upwards of 100 bands. Tour founder/producer Kevin Lyman tells Billboard that attendance will hit about 520,000 this year, on a par with some of the tour’s most successful years ever. Among the headliners…

Two members of Pussy Riot are suing the Russian government in a European court for human rights violations over their arrest after the punk band’s demonstration at a Moscow cathedral in 2012. Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who received amnesty late last year after serving 21 months in prison and pre-trial confinement, are…

Most Beatles albums were mixed primarily in mono until The White Album, according to engineer Ken Scott in his Abbey Road To Ziggy Stardust book (which I was most honored to co-write), with the stereo mixes done as an afterthought, since stereo was such a new technology at the time. This practice continues until the…

R. Kelly has been dropped from the lineup of an Ohio music festival following complaints about his past as an alleged sexual predator. The musician was slated to perform on the opening day of the inaugural Fashion Meets Music Festival over Labor Day weekend in Columbus. But following complaints on Twitter and Facebook and bands…

Critics are circling Internet radio company Pandora after shares fell as much as 14.5 percent and closed down 10.3 percent Friday following the company’s second-quarter earnings release. Shares were down over 2 percent in Monday afternoon trading. Revenue and user growth can lead analysts, investors and onlookers to overlook a lack of profitability. Top-line performance…

Popcaan has been one of the world’s most popular dancehall artists for a few years now, emerging in 2010 with songs like ‘Dream’ and ‘Gangster City’ before breaking through with an appearance on Vybz Kartel’s ‘Clarks’. He would soon surpass his mentor on ‘Ravin’, his version of Kartel’s ‘Summer Time’; ‘Ravin’ and ‘Party Shot’ would…

http://www.vladtv.com – During an exclusive interview with VladTV, Young Chop revealed that Chief Keef’s “I Dont Like” and Lil Reese’s “Us” were recorded consecutively. He adds that the beat was originally played for Keef, who wasn’t feeling it, so Chop turned around and gave it to Reese. When asked why Reese hasn’t put out much…

There are artists whose reputations appear to be surrounded by a near constant haze of smoke from their musical odes to marijuana. (I’m looking in your direction, Cypress Hill.) But of all the songs about weed, few became as big of a mainstream hit as Afroman’s “Because I Got High.” A decade ago, going within…

Fifteen years after making his debut, Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges will receive the President’s Award at the 2014 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards. The Atlanta rapper, 36, will be honored during the star-studded ceremony on August 22 at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. In addition to Ludacris, songwriters, producers, and publishers of the most-performed R&B/hip-hop songs of the…

Being an entrepreneur is hard work. It takes dedication, respect, and a little patience to finally see ones’ dreams come to fruition and profit off of the product that an individual has invested their time in. Follow these 25 common rules in order to be on the path to success as a professional entrepreneur….