Since she began making records in the early 2010s, Welsh-born, California-based Cate Le Bon has staked out her own unique avant-pop space, especially on excellent recent albums like 2019’s Reward and 2022’s Pompeii. Her warmly stentorian singing and dreamy lyrics can have a de-centering effect, so her music often gets …
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Terry Manning, a music producer and engineer who collaborated with Led Zeppelin, Big Star, and ZZ Top, died at his home in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday. He was 77. Just two weeks earlier, a jovial Manning recalled working with Jimmy Page and other giants of the music biz in …
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The Recording Academy will induct eight albums and five singles in the Grammy Hall of Fame this year. The albums include Jay-Z’sReasonable Doubt, Luther Vandross‘ Never Too Much, Emmylou Harris‘ Wrecking Ball, and Cat Stevens‘Tea For The Tillerman. The Grammy Hall of Fame will also induct Big Star‘s #1 Record, …
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The American South is a hot mess of cultural contradictions, and while those contradictions have stoked the dumpster fire of U.S. politics for a couple of centuries, they also happen to be fueling some of the best music being made right now. And to be sure, the story of rock …
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