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Posted: 16 Jul 2012 11:35 PM PDT


Chart Watch Extra: The Original Queen of Country
Kitty Wells, who died on Monday at 92, was the original "Queen of Country Music." She first lay claim to the title in 1952, long before Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton, before Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette, even before Patsy Cline. In August 1952, Wells became the first female solo artist to, all by herself, [...]

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 03:12 PM PDT


We're #2! Popular Songs That Never Made It To #1!
Many musicians claim they never look at the pop charts. It's easy to see why. Even if you succeed in getting your music heard and into the hands of fans, there's never any guarantee that alleged payola makes it into the alleged right hands. If things are on the up and up and you have [...]

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 12:43 PM PDT


Hip-Hop Dance Movie 'Step Up Revolution' Sponsors Local Competition
The battle dance movie series, Step Up, has inspired a real-life competition. On Sunday, July 22, Step Up Revolution teams up with the Hip-Hop Chess Federation to host its first-ever Your Own Step hip-hop event. Youth and young adults will compete in multiple hip-hop styles, b-boy, b-girl, crumping, stepping, turfing and jerking for opportunities to [...]

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 07:51 AM PDT


The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Elton John Takes Off in 1970
Few singer-songwriters have enjoyed a career as enduring as the former Reg Dwight's. Robert Greenfield caught Elton on the way up and filed this report from England. It appeared in Rolling Stone on November 12, 1970——Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages LONDON — "If this is the revolution, why are the drinks so f---ing expensive," [...]

Posted: 16 Jul 2012 04:13 AM PDT


The Rock's Backpages Rewind: How Pop Stars Learned to Scowl!
Gene Sculatti explains how artists — from the Rolling Stones to hip hop icons like Drake — stopped smiling in order to "sell disdain"——Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages Way back in 1966, garage-y Brit quartet the Downliners Sect cut a searing single, a tune composed by a pre-Velvet Underground Lou Reed and John Cale [...]