Festival Roundup: Ozzy Joins Monsters of Rock, GZA and De La Soul Lead Paid Dues

What's a Wednesday in April without the announcement of more summer festivals? We'll start off in rock-happy Calgary, Alberta, where Ozzy Osbourne will perform at this year's Monsters of Rock festival on July 26th. Joining the Ozzman will be Serj Tankian, Judas Priest, Dillinger Escape Plan, Shadows Fall and many other monsters. Meanwhile, the mobile Paid Dues Festival will feature hip-hop acts like Wu-Tang's GZA, Rakim, De La Soul, Blackalicious, Little Brother and many more. Full dates for that trek are listed below.

June 4 - New York, NY @ Nokia Theatre
June 7 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Club Cinema
June 13 - Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
June 14 - Berkeley, CA @ Berkeley Community Theatre

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Song Stories

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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