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Posted: 08 Dec 2011 01:00 AM PST


'X Factor' Top 5 Recap: There Was An Error
Last week's "X Factor" shocking results show was all about drama, drama, DRA-MA, as the judges bitterly fought over the eliminations and poor Drew Ryniewicz got caught in the crossfire. This Wednesday, there was more drama, of course: "If they want a war, they're going to get a war," Simon Cowell snarled at the episode's [...]

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 01:00 AM PST


A New York Christmas Playlist
When I think of Christmas in a big city, New York is the first that comes to mind. Movies like A Miracle On 34th Street have helped to give New York City a very special Christmastime mystique. And if you've ever been to New York during the holidays you know first hand how magical it [...]

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 01:00 AM PST


The Most Awesome Music Videos of 2011
While most music videos are merely slick, soulless promotional vehicles for potential hit singles, with no more substance or purpose than a Shamwow infomercial, occasionally a video comes out that transcends crass commercialism and actually stands alone as a work of visual art. Happily, quite a few such artworks hit TV screens and computer monitors [...]

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 11:57 PM PST


Week Ending Dec. 4, 2011. Songs: Katy Goes On Sale
Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away" holds at #9 on the Hot 100. Its airplay grew by 17%, but its digital sales dropped by 31%. So you might think it's probably out of the running to become a record-breaking sixth #1 single from Perry's Teenage Dream album. Think again.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 11:57 PM PST


Chart Watch Extra: The Year's Top Albums
You probably already know that Adele's 21 is the year's best-selling album, but did you realize that Adele will also have the year's #1 single ("Rolling In The Deep") and #1 music video (Live At The Royal Albert Hall)? No other artist in Nielsen SoundScan history (which dates to 1991) has ever topped all three [...]

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 12:00 PM PST


Sinead O'Connor Is Getting Married Thursday!
Nothing compares 2…Barry! Sinead O'Connor is getting married on Thursday -- her 45th birthday -- to beau Barry Herridge, she announced on her blog. PHOTOS: Best of 2011 -- engagements of the year "With enormous joy myself and my beloved boyfriend Barry Herridge will be getting married tomorrow, December 8th 2011 at 'an un-disclosed location' [...]

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 09:33 AM PST


Week Ending Dec. 4, 2011. Albums: Headed For A Triple Crown
Adele's DVD Live At The Royal Albert Hall sold 96,000 copies this week, which is the greatest one-week sales tally for a music video in four years. After just one week, Live At The Royal Albert Hall is the best-selling music video of 2011. It is followed by AC/DC's Live At River Plate (73K), Beyonce's [...]

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 05:54 AM PST


The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Soul Man Howard Tate, 1939-2011
The great soul singer Howard Tate has died at age 72. After decades in obscurity, Howard Tate Rediscovered (2003) reunited him with songwriter/producer/arranger Jerry Ragovoy, and we feature the full unedited version of Andy Schwartz's liner notes for that album——Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages On the night of July 21, 2001, in a subterranean [...]

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 04:57 AM PST


The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Prowlin' with the Wolf in Gainesville
We commemorate the passing of Hubert Sumlin —Howlin' Wolf's guitarist for nearly 20 years and an immeasurable influence on everyone from Eric Clapton to Robbie Robertson — by reprising Jim Esposito's fly-on-the-wall gem from the Gainesville Sun, originally published on 8 September 1974——Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages It's 9.05pm, and backstage at the Howlin' [...]