March 2010

  • Free to Read Pop Music Mags

    By lisala on 3/31/10 1:29pm
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    Popular music fans are discovering a wealth of available material on the Web because of various projects to digitize the magazines that chronicled the rise of pop music, particularly in terms of rock and roll.

    A fan has placed carefully digitized complete issues of KRLA Beat, the earliest American newspaper to cover top-forty music. The Beat which was published by a Pasadena radio station began in 1964 as a small four-page newsletter, but grew to a sixteen page weekly, and then a 24 page bi-monthly before it ceased publication in 1968. You can find a careful, thoroughly documented collection of almost all the issues here.

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