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 | | Rolling Stone |
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| How Lee 'Scratch' Perry 'Forever Changed the Sound of Music Everywhere' |
| by Vivien Goldman |
| Four decades ago, musician, journalist and Bob Marley's former publicist Vivien Goldman was with Marley and Scratch in London. Today, she looks back at the producer's monumental legacy. |
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 | | Vulture |
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| Charlie Watts Held the Rolling Stones Together for Half a Century |
| by Bill Wyman |
| Remembering the legendary drummer, without whom the greatest rock and roll band in history might've crumbled. |
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 | | GQ |
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| DMX Turned Agony and Atomic Energy Into One of Rap's Most Titanic Legacies |
| by Jeff Weiss |
| He was both the last great, raw '90s rapper, and a harbinger of the harmonic pop sensibilities that would dominate the next generation. |
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 | | Do the M@th |
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| Connector in Chief: Chick Corea, 1941-2021 |
| by Mark Stryker |
| Like pretty much everyone else within the jazz community, I never contemplated living in a world without Chick Corea. |
|
 | | Los Angeles Times |
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| Vicente Fernández, a Mexican musical icon for generations, dies at 81 |
| by Jesse Katz |
| The last of Mexico's crooning matinee idols, the self-taught troubadour recorded more than 50 albums, all in Spanish, and sold tens of millions of copies. |
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 | | Pitchfork |
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| Remembering SOPHIE's Radical Futurism |
| by Philip Sherburne |
| The revolutionary artist helped change the landscape of pop music as we know it. |
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 | | NPR Music |
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| Being A Teenager In The 1950s Was Hard. The Everly Brothers Understood |
| by Ann Powers |
| From the opening of their first hit, "Bye Bye Love," the Everly Brothers spoke directly to the deepest longings and anxieties of the generation that would come to define the rock and soul era. |
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| | Los Angeles Times |
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| How Mary Wilson and the Supremes changed the way white America viewed Black music |
| by Mikael Wood |
| Supremes co-founder Mary Wilson was the group's linchpin and actively promoted their legacy long after their breakup. |
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 | | Complex |
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| Drakeo the Ruler, People's Champion |
| by Steven Louis |
| The loss of Drakeo the Ruler, South Central's prodigal mudwalker and the undisputed People's Champion of Los Angeles, is incalculable and cosmically cruel. |
|
 | | Tidal |
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| Music's Expanding: A Robbie Shakespeare Listening Guide |
| by Reshma B |
| Locked in alongside drummer Sly Dunbar, the bassist revolutionized reggae — and much more. |
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| | Vulture |
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| No One Was Safe from Phil Spector |
| by Bill Wyman |
| The producer made countless contributions to music, but his ego overshadowed them all. |
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 | | Billboard |
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| Walter Yetnikoff Was a Wolf Among 'Hit Men,' But That Was His Undoing |
| by Fredric Dannen |
| Some people thought "Hit Men" - Fred Dannen's expose of the music business - helped end the career of the CBS Records chief. The truth is, he didn't need any help. |
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| | Tidal |
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| Johnny Pacheco: Tumbao Everlasting |
| by Eddie Palmieri and Shaun Brady |
| Latin-music legend Eddie Palmieri remembers his dear friend and colleague, the salsa and pachanga bandleader and producer who co-founded Fania Records. |
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 | | The New York Times |
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| Duke Bootee, Whose 'Message' Educated Hip-Hop, Dies at 69 |
| by Alex Traub |
| His 1982 hit about the "jungle" of urban poverty charted a new, grittier path for rap music in its early days. |
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 | | The Motto |
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| why me—and everybody—loves the Biz |
| by Elliott Wilson |
| It's way deeper than "Just A Friend." |
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| | Vulture |
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| Jim Steinman, Master of Excess |
| by Bill Wyman |
| At his best, humor and his natural talents came together -- most often in the work of Meat Loaf -- to create ineffable moments of pop and rock grandeur. |
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 | | The New Yorker |
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| Farewell to Stephen Sondheim |
| by Adam Gopnik |
| His legacy is one that will be debated and argued over as long as people care about musical theatre. |
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| | Rolling Stone |
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| A Loose Salute to Michael Nesmith, the Coolest Monkee of Them All |
| by Rob Sheffield |
| He was a musical visionary who fought for the group to write its own songs, and helped to invent country-rock on a series of cult-classic solo LPs. |
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 | | The Washington Post |
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| Lou Ottens, who invented the cassette tape and pioneered the CD, dies at 94 |
| by Harrison Smith |
| His compact, plastic-encased sound machine helped democratize music, making it easier for millions of people to hear, record and share songs. |
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 | | The Guardian |
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| The Debt I Owe to Jon Hassell |
| by Brian Eno |
| Hassell's Vernal Equinox fascinated me. It was a dreamy, strange, meditative music that was inflected by Indian, African and South American music, but also seemed located in the lineage of tonal minimalism. It was a music I felt I'd been waiting for. |
|
 | | Texas Monthly |
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| Nanci Griffith Was More Loved Than She Knew |
| by Jason Cohen |
| Fans of the Seguin-born singer-songwriter are as uncategorizable as the artist they adored. |
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| | Los Angeles Times |
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| Today, hip-hop and R&B are seamlessly intwined. You can thank Chucky Thompson for that |
| by Julian Kimble |
| Chucky Thompson, who died Aug. 9 from COVID-19 complications, produced classic records by the Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige for Bad Boy Records. |
|
 | | David Hinckley |
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| Remembering Lloyd Price, and the Strange Wild Tale of 'Stagger Lee' |
| by David Hinckley |
| If he had done nothing else, Lloyd Price's 1958 version of the folk ballad "Stagger Lee" would stand today as maybe the most hard-core record ever to hit №1 on the rock 'n' roll charts. |
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| | NPR Music |
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| Stonecoldboldness: A many-sided memorial to the writing of Greg Tate |
| by Ann Powers, Hanif Abdurraqib, Marcus J. Moore... |
| A critic whose writing was nearly music itself, Greg Tate - who died this week at 64 - influenced generations of writers. His colleagues, peers and followers offer a guide to his essential works. |
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| | The Guardian |
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| Slipknot's Joey Jordison corralled chaos with his explosive talent |
| by Chris Lord |
| In combining both pummelling impact and nimble speed, Jordison defied his short stature to become a hulking master of rhythm - and the finest metal drummer of his era. |
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| | The New Yorker |
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| The Vibrant Life and Quiet Passing of Dottie Dodgion |
| by Megan Mayhew Bergman |
| The pioneering female jazz drummer played with Charles Mingus, Benny Goodman, and many others—and still had a regular gig, at the age of ninety, until the pandemic struck. |
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| | Rolling Stone |
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| How Milford Graves Reawakened the Spirit of the Drum |
| by Hank Shteamer |
| Late percussionist's radical approach galvanized everyone from Lou Reed to Albert Ayler, and built a bridge between music and the healing arts. |
|
 | | The FADER |
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| Young Dolph was Memphis rap's defiant heart |
| by Jayson Buford |
| He was as human as it got, and he was a real Memphis legend. |
|
 | | Dazed Digital |
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| Remembering K-Hand, the Detroit trailblazer who did it her way |
| by Annabel Ross |
| Kelli Hand, the artist dubbed the 'First Lady of Detroit', deserves to be remembered as one of the best and most important producers in the history of electronic music. |
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| | The Guardian |
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| The brilliant Bunny Wailer pushed reggae forward on his own terms |
| by Lloyd Bradley |
| The Jamaican star returned to his roots after global fame with Bob Marley to deepen and diversify reggae with a powerful sense of creative freedom. |
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| | The Washington Post |
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| Phil Schaap, jazz scholar, historian and broadcaster, dies at 70 |
| by Tim Page |
| He seemed to want to share every possible fact that he could find, in a sort of ecstatic data transport: where the record was made, which take from the session was played, what might have been going on in the lives of the players and in the world on that long-ago day. |
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