Katy Perry‘s performance during halftime at this year’s Super Bowl is still reverberating at the U.S. Trademark Office. On Friday, the pop singer got bad news that her company’s initial attempts to register a “Left Shark” design had been rejected….

The Coachella festival had no problem selling out two weekends, and with a surprise appearance from Kanye West, weekend two didn’t lack for headlines, either. Yet the total volume of tweets pertaining to Coachella nose-dived from the festival’s first weekend to its second — down from 3.5 million festival-specific tweets sent during weekend one to only 600,000 sent over…

Sixteen-year old Shawn Mendes has grown from Vine stardom to topping the Billboard 200 chart, as his debut full-length album Handwritten arrives at No. 1. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA)….

This year, Coachella explicitly denied totems entry into the festival. These celebrity faces and odd things attached to sticks are useful for helping keep groups of friends together in big crowds, and they’re especially ubiquitous at EDM events like Hard Summer, EDC and Ultra. The ban on totems, though, didn’t stop Coachella-goers from smuggling in…

Dr. Dre has been battling Death Row Records over the past year over unpaid funds from the online sales of The Chronic and he has come out victorious….

The Knux were the most misunderstood rap group of the late 2000s. Signed to Interscope and boasting the same management as Eminem, the New Orleans–raised duo copped rebel poses and claimed the Hollywood Hills as new home turf. They were branded “hipster rap,” but the truth was far more complex. With a history that includes…

At a time when most Americans have been exposed to a more pop-influenced style of reggae music, it’s important to remind newer reggae fans about the genre’s roots. Imagine an underground movement whose leaders and followers have been dedicated to the preservation of Jamaican reggae and its message for decades, only to be overshadowed by…

It seems like every year, more and more reggae music festivals sprout up all over the country, especially in California. However, for the last 11 years and counting, the Yes I Can Summer Meltdown Autism Awareness Art and Music Festival, held at the Santa Clarita Skate Park, has set itself apart from the others by…

Like many in the music biz, David Israelite was surprised to learn of Roger Faxon’s decision to join the board of directors at Pandora. In this open letter exclusively published by Billboard, Israelite shares his thoughts on how it might all pan out for the veteran music publisher in his new relationship with the digital music service. Israelite is the president and CEO…

California has hosted plenty of indie and throwback hip-hop festivals, but perhaps none is as comprehensive as Ice-T’s forthcoming Art Of Rap festival….