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Viacom Settles Class Action Lawsuit with Former Unpaid Interns at MTV and Other Holdings

Your correspondent got into the journalism game a few minutes too early. What was once an understood part of the journalism college curriculum, required internships that were more often than not unpaid, have almost been entirely done away with. If any employers are still hoping to get free work from wannabe university students, they might think otherwise after another settlement was made in a case where the aforementioned interns sued for violation of labor laws. Viacom just settled (in principle) a class action lawsuit regarding unpaid internships at its holding MTV.
Danny Brown Writing Dr. Seuss-Style Children's Book Focusing on Self-Esteem and Black Girls

No one will question Danny Brown's ability to string rhymes together...whether he can do so in language appropriate for a child audience is another question. It's a challenge he'll have to face as he approaches his ongoing project to write an animated children's book, Dr. Seuss-style. The project was inspired by his 13 year-old daughter and the struggle to maintain self-esteem among black girls.
Lamb of God Fan Sues Live Nation for Mosh Pit Injury Suffered during 2012; Band Not Listed as A Defendant

Probably the last thing Lamb of God wanted to hear about as it works on a new album to be theoretically released during 2015: another lawsuit. As you'll recall, the last time the band ran into legal trouble due to injuries occurring at a performance, a Czech fan died in a stage diving accident and vocalist Randy Blythe spent more than a month in a foreign prison (he was later exonerated). The band isn't actually a defendant this time around but if the courts agree with the plaintiff, the metal band could still find itself in a sticky situation.
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Hit Bollywood, Working on "Secret Project" with Film Star Salman Khan

Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike are just staying ahead of the Indian music curve, announcing that they were working on the soundtrack for a "secret" film project with established Bollywood actor Salman Khan.
Other Bands Going to No. 1 With Beatles Songs: Elton John, Joe Cocker, Billy Kramer and More

Plenty of bands from the cover-friendly '60s and '70s made it to the top of the charts with Beatles songs. Here's a short list of acts that took the works of John Lennon and Paul McCartney to the top...even when The Beatles couldn't.
6 Celebrity Marching Band Members Far From Being The "Dorks" Jim Rome Claims: Lil Wayne, Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry and More

Jim Rome dissed marching band members and then apologized. The larger problem here: A large portion of the population agrees with Rome's sentiments. Keeping that in mind, we found six former band members that are far from being "dorks."
Blog Tracks Down Melissa Dawson Higgins, NASA Scientist and Unwitting Vocal Inspiration for Burial Track "Come Down To Us"

More than a year after its release, one of the mysteries from Burial's acclaimed 2013 EP Rival Dealer has been solved: Fans and curious listeners wanted to find out who was the female voice commenting on the galaxy during the sprawling final track "Come Down To Us." Yeah I Got did the research that traced the quotes back to NASA scientist Melissa Dawson Higgins and interviewed her accordingly.
Nicki Minaj Struggling with Christmas Poltergeists in Her UK Home? Real Emergency Calls Placed in UK on Christmas Day

We deeply appreciate those members of society who take jobs that force them to show up for work on Christmas day: Police officers, firefighters, Waffle House employees. One 999 phone operator in the UK (999 is the UK equivalent to 911 in the United States) got a Christmas surprise when Nicki Minaj called in to report that she was struggling with poltergeists creating havoc in her home. This, alas is a true story and was not a prank, although of course the real Minaj was not the one behind the call.
Rammstein's Till Lindemann and Hypocrisy Guitarist Peter Tägtgren Collaborating on New Project "Lindemann"

We know that we're not looking for a new Rammstein album at any point in the near future, so what else can we expect from the members of the German industrial rock group? It would seem, based on a new Facebook page, that vocalist Till Lindemann is working on a potential solo project alongside Swedish guitarist Peter Tägtgren.
Department of Transportation Finalizes Rules Allowing Guitars and Similar Instruments as Carry-On Baggage

Are you a musician taking a long trip but aren't too keen on the idea of baggage handlers at the airport taking care of your guitar? Good news: Instruments such as guitars and others of manageable size (sorry to your drummer) are now able to bring their pride and joy onto the plane as carry-on baggage. The rule was made official by the U.S. Department of Transportation as it confirmed the statutes of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012.
Kanye West Fans Don't Know Who Paul McCartney Is? Yeah Right. E! and Others Punk'd by Social Media after "Only One" Release

Kanye West is definitely one of the great tastemakers in music today thanks to his expansive listening habits. Otherwise Top 40 kids scrunched their eyebrows tight when The Haxan Cloak's Excavation rumbled on the speakers before his Yeezus tour dates, and Gesaffelstein can't get any press without his work on "Black Skinhead" being mentioned. The rapper doesn't just stick to the underground of course...he's done a whole album with Jay Z and recently released a single featuring Paul McCartney. And then it turns out that many of his fans have no idea who the former Beatle is. Seriously?
A History of Cuomos in Music Including Mario (The Orwells Vocalist...Not The Governor RIP) and Weezer's Rivers

R.I.P. to former New York governor Mario Cuomo. Although we should have realized what was going on when we first saw the headline, our thoughts immediately went to the vocalist of The Orwells, who shares a name with the famed politician. Check out some of the other established Cuomos in music.
8 Artists with At Least 8 No. 1 Albums: Ranking The Octopping Albums from Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Jay Z and More

Fifty years ago on this day Elvis Presley released Roustabout, a soundtrack for the film of the same title, starring the performer. It was his eighth no. 1 album, an extension of his record for most albums atop the Billboard 200 by one artist (which would soon be surpassed for good by The Beatles). Interestingly enough, only eight acts have had at least eight albums top the American charts. We at Music Times decided to find out each of those acts' no. 8 no. 1 and measure them up against each other.
Joe Cocker's 'The Millennium Collection' Cracks Billboard 200 for First Time in Light of December Death; Great Primer for Casual Fans

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 Joe Cocker's chapter in 'The Millennium Collection' best-of series, popularized by his unfortunate recent death.
Amazon Prime Priming for India Launch during 2015 as Streaming Services Accelerate Accessibility in BRIC Nation

The future of the music industry, especially considering the modern trend toward streaming over actual physical purchases, lies in regions outside of the United States. Amazon is one of several countries that realizes this and hence has apparently began planning to launch its Amazon Prime service (including the limited streaming services it offers) during 2015.
Courtney Love Making Musical Theatre Debut in 'Kansas City Choir Boy' as Part of Prototype Festival in New York

Courtney Love has been so caught up in tabloid-style news for years that we forgot that she produced some damn good music at one point and that an actual artist existed somewhere in there. Everyone can feel good about her newest project, a song-cycle-style play featuring herself and songwriter Todd Almond, should be a good splash of cold water on our cynical critics' faces. The former Hole vocalist/guitarist will perform in 'Kansas City Choir Boy' as part of the annual Prototype Festival, an event showcasing experimental theatre.
Akon Coming Back With New Album, Five Disc 'Stadium' Set Featuring Five Different "Genres"; First Album Since 'Freedom' in 2008

Many rappers put out way more music than they can possibly release on LPs, which is why we're constantly getting new Chief Keef mixtapes and we'll be getting new Tupac Shakur material until we ourselves are dead (at which point we hope we can put out a record as well). The best rappers know that a majority of the work they put out isn't album-worthy, which is why it never sees the light of day. A few double-album exceptions exist, such as Shakur's 'All Eyez On Me' and The Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Life After Death,' but nothing could have prepared us for what Akon has planned for 2015: A five-disc set of original material titled 'Stadium.'
Broadway Ends 2014 Big: 'The Lion King,' 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder' and 'It's Just A Play' Set Theater Records

We at Music Times are getting tired of writing about things being down during 2014-album sales were down, it seems like digital single sales will be down, and we just reported that piano sales are way down-but good news: One thing was up toward the end of the year and it wasn't vinyl sales. Broadway productions in New York City brought in huge numbers. More than 30,000 more viewers showed up for shows than they did during Christmastime 2013. Of the 36 shows currently in production on the Great White Way, 19 broke $1 million.
Piano Stores Closing Doors as Fewer New Instruments Being Sold; Busy Kids and Restorations Hurting Sales

Everybody knows that album sales are down, and at least in the UK singles downloads are down as well, but the advancement of the computer age is leaving another segment of the music market in the dust as well: pianos. A mini-feature by Billboard sheds light on the rapid rate at which piano retailers are closing their doors amid a climate where folks just aren't shelling out for the most significant of instruments. Last year saw the sale of somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 pianos...compared to the instrument's peak year of 1909, when more than 364,000 were sold.
7 Renditions of "The Promise" to Celebrate Your New Year's Resolution: Bruce Springsteen, When In Rome, Tracy Chapman and More

Ugh, Day one of a new year. By this point we've already broken our new year's resolution, if only to recover from the hangover we're enduring to last year's last minute binge. Congratulations to you if you actually come through and accomplish your goals for 2015. Plenty of bands have made a promise, or "The Promise" to be specific. Here are a few examples, from Bruce Springsteen to When In Rome.
Radio Stunting: Music Stations Repeat One Song All Day, from Performers Such as Led Zeppelin, R.E.M., Kid Rock and More

Radio stations occasionally partake in "Stunting," or playing one song on repeat to advertise a format change or some other event. Here are six classically annoying examples:
Garth Brooks Going Big during Record-Breaking 'Today Show' Appearance January 8; Does Performer Have Big Tour Plans to Announce?

Garth Brooks had a fairly accomplished 2014: He released a new album, Man Against Machine—which we suspect may have gone platinum...if only his website would report digital sales for the album—and he also set personal concert sales records at nearly every venue he visited during the tour supporting that album. Now he'll start off 2015 with a bang, scheduled to appear on the Today Show on January 8, which itself will be of note because he's due to appear throughout the entirety of the four-hour program.
Founder and Artistic Director Dame Fanny Waterman Stepping Down after 53 Years with Leeds International Piano Competition

The Leeds International Piano Competition will look at least a little different during 2016. After this year's event during August and September, Dame Fanny Waterman will be stepping down from her traditional role as the artistic director for the music contest. She and her husband Geoffrey de Keyser, as well as accomplished pianist Marion Thorpe, founded the Leeds Competition during 1961. Although her husband died during 2001, she has maintained her role in the competition and will serve one last time during 2015. She is 94 years old.
Despite Big Sales Years for Taylor Swift and 'Frozen,' Album Sales Still Down 11 Percent during 2014; Downloads Also Down 9 Percent

Earlier this week we got the exciting news that Taylor Swift and 1989 had passed the Frozen Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to become the bestselling album of 2014. Both albums went well beyond triple-platinum status during their 2014 sales runs and it seems Swift's most recent album will be one of the bestselling albums of the decade, if not the sole best selling record, but the time it's done. But now it's time to take the facts into consideration: Album sales as a whole were down by more than 11 percent during 2014.
The Hollywood Reporter's Best Music Books of 2014: Nonfiction(?) on The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac and More

Happy New Year! If you're anything like us, you've about had enough of every website publishing its own Top 10 of everything for the year and of certain Sirius stations playing the same countdowns every day during your commute and watering down an otherwise diverse channel. The Hollywood Reporter has down the unthinkable and published a list of the best books (?!?) of the year, all of which deal with the topic of music. Check out a brief summary below and then head to your local library or bookstore.
Iggy Azalea Confirms TMJ Diagnosis but Don't Worry: Emcee Will Enter Studio Next Week for 'The New Classic' Follow-Up

Some viewers of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve may have noticed that Iggy Azalea was acting somewhat peculiarly as she performed "Fancy" with Charlie XCX: She was dressed rather conservatively. This had nothing to do with a more interesting tweet she sent out early in the day where she confirmed that she had been diagnosed with temporomandibular joint dysfunction, or TMJ (she also announced she's working on a new album but we'll get to the good news later).
Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith Lead 2014 UK Album Sales Chart Featuring Nothing But British Artists for First Time Ever

If you peruse Billboard's websites for the album charts from other countries you'll notice that very often foreign talent infiltrates the top spots. The Uk can proudly declare that during 2014, every single performer in its Top 10 for album sales was homegrown for the first time. Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith were among the bestselling musicians of the year in the UK.
7 Songs Featuring Non-Traditional Instruments; Featuring Tracks from The Beach Boys, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and More

On this day 40 years ago Pink Floyd began working on what would become what many consider to be the band's masterpiece, and what would become one of the bestselling rock albums of all time: Dark Side of The Moon. A Floyd project that fewer people are familiar with is the album that the band meant to do instead of Moon: An album recorded using nothing but household objects. This project, despite the inevitable cult stays that it would attain, probably wouldn't have lived up to the acclaim of the album the band did end up recording. Still, we can't help but appreciate the idea of using non-musical items in a more musical sense. Here are seven songs (if not full albums) that feature some outside instrumentation.
5 Times Square Music Events from 2014 That Weren't 'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve'; Featuring U2, Kanye West, Michael Jackson and More

Happy New Year to those who read this article seven hours late, and happy preparation for the new year to those of you reading it today. Right now most of the music world's attention is on Times Square for another night of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, featuring performances from Taylor Swift, Florida Georgia Line and Idina Menzel. Midtown's main tourist attraction has long been the headquarters for the American celebration of another year coming to close but this isn't the only time big name musical acts have stopped by. Here are five other musical events you may have missed in the last year as you were clawing your way toward the Bubba Gump's location for lunch.
Taylor Swift No. 2 All Time for Weeks at No. 1 with '1989'; No New Albums to Interrupt Nicki Minaj, Pentatonix and One Direction Post-Christmas

Another week and another run at history by Taylor Swift: Her album 1989 managed to top the Billboard 200 for the seventh time during its nine weeks on the charts, selling 326,000 full copies and generating 430 multi-metric equivalent albums (MME's). That no. 1 spot moves her into second place all-time for women atop the Billboard 200 with 31 weeks at no. 1, trailing only Whitney Houston and her crazy 46 week total.