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The ‘ultimate female jazz singer,’ Ella Fitzgerald, soars on ‘The Lost Berlin Tapes’
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The ‘ultimate female jazz singer,’ Ella Fitzgerald, soars on ‘The Lost Berlin Tapes’
Where would we be without Ella?Without that voice, that propulsive sense of swing, that fleet technique and that seemingly inexhaustible...
Howard Reich - Chicago Tribune (TNS)
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2020 year in review: Best albums came as COVID-19 made music more essential than ever
The vital need for music has never been greater, at least in this century, than it was in 2020.Of course, music is essential...
George Varga - The San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS)
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The worst music of 2020: 10 miserable songs from the miserablest year
Think of it as a victory lap for arguably the worst year ever. Now that every list-maker with ears has run down the albums and...
August Brown, Suzy Exposito, Randall Roberts, Mikael Wood - L.A. Times (TNS)
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The best albums of 2020, from Sault and Swift to Lil Uzi Vert and Springsteen
Eric Church summed up 2020 when he accepted Entertainer of the Year honors at the Country Music Association Awards last month:...
Dan Deluca - The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
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Global superstar Bad Bunny has never won a 'gringo Grammy.' Will 2021 finally be his year?
From the time he was a child in Puerto Rico, Benito Martinez Ocasio fancied himself a performer, but he could never have anticipated...
Suzy Exposito - L.A. Times (TNS)
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Hollywood's Fort Knox is Iron Mountain. Its latest restored treasure: Bee Gees footage
It's been several decades since a TV show was recorded on a 2-inch Quadruplex videotape machine. Kurt Spada, lead encode...
Stephen Battaglio - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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The 10 best albums of 2020: Taylor Swift, Fiona Apple, more
Not every album released in 2020 was made during the pandemic. But every one of them was heard during it — context that...
Mikael Wood - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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The 50 best songs of 2020
Looking back years from now, we may or may not remember how we encountered the songs that defined 2020 — on the radio,...
August Brown, Suzy Exposito, Randall Ronberts and Mikael Wood - L.A. Times (TNS)
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The 10 best Latin music moments of 2020
2020 was the year that Latin music became nearly ubiquitous in American popular culture. Whether it was Shakira and Jennifer...
Suzy Exposito - L.A. Times (TNS)
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Seattle's Ben Gibbard talks Postal Service live album, new Death Cab EP
Ben Gibbard just might be the busiest musician in quarantine.Shortly after the Seattle songsmith's primary...
Michael Rietmulder - The Seattle Times (TNS)
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Benny Blanco on his new song with Juice Wrld: 'It's hard to listen to now'
Benny Blanco says he's not the type to seek out opportunities to appear onstage in front of tens of thousands of people.But...
Mikael Wood - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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Sony/ATV & Bleeding Fingers announce USC Screen Scoring Diversity Scholarship
The USC Thornton School of Music has partnered with Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Bleeding Fingers Music to announce the USC...
Campus Circle Staff
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The relentless rockitude of AC/DC
"Power Up" isn't the first time AC/DC has successfully recharged itself.In 1980, the Australian hard-rock band...
Mikael Wood - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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Jewel reflects on her 1995 debut album, which sold 12 million copies and changed her life
Who better than Bob Dylan and Neil Young to offer personal encouragement to a budding young singer-songwriter...
George Varga - The San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS)
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A temple of sound awaits in the UCSB's collection of early music and sound recordings
Located in a wing of the UC Santa Barbara Library, about a quarter mile from the Pacific Ocean, the university's...
Randall Roberts - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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Is this Green Day, in disguise, gleefully singing 'Ivankkka Is a Nazi'?
Just in time for the home stretch of the most tense election of modern times, the masked and anonymous rock band the Network...
August Brown - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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What's Ariana Grande been up to? Having tons of quar sex and making a great album about it
What's Ariana Grande been up to? Having tons of quar sex and making a great album about itImagesBy Mikael WoodLos Angeles...
Mikael Wood - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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Seminal art-rock legends Pylon will release comprehensive 4xLP box set
Seminal art-rock legends Pylon will release Pylon Box tomorrow via New West Records. The comprehensive 4xLP box set...
Campus Circle Staff
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In 1990, Rock the Vote and Madonna shook up politics. Will the youth vote do the same in 2020?
In 1990, music executive Jeff Ayeroff had been growing increasingly frustrated at the effort by Washington politicians...
Stephen Battaglio - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold on what inspired the band's surprise new album, 'Shore'
It's been more than a decade since a hot-out-the-gate band of folk rockers helped define an era of Seattle rock...
Michael Rietmulder - The Seattle Times (TNS)
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Low Cut Connie, Annie, The Brothers Osborne
Low Cut Connie - "Private Lives" (Contender (ASTERISK)(ASTERISK)(ASTERISK) 1/2)Back in January before the...
Dan Deluca - The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
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As Election Day nears, Taylor Swift and A-list artists finally rally behind Biden
Unlike a lot of her peers in the music industry, Diane Warren was a Joe Biden supporter from day one of the 2020 primaries.“He...
August Brown - LA Times (TNS)
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Shamir used to be an ‘accidental pop star.’ Now, the Philly indie rocker has come into his own.
Shamir began his career with the kind of immediate success most pop music makers can only dream of.There was only one problem,...
Dan Deluca - The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
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A viral, skateboarding TikTok star triples sales of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’
Somewhere in Idaho, a Mexican father of two cruises down the highway on his skateboard to the sweet strains of Fleetwood Mac.He...
Laura Zornosa - LA Times (TNS)
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Dua Lipa, with some help and inspiration from Madonna, revives the remix album
Dua Lipa didn’t need to put a song called “Love Is Religion” on her new remix album to conjure memories of...
Mikael Wood - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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Spotify ramps up podcast deals with influencers
Los Angeles-based influencers Rickey Thompson and Denzel Dion are pros at posting funny videos to their millions of followers...
Wendy Lee - L.A. Times (TNS)
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Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘WAP’ is a savage, nasty, sex-positive triumph
I tried to do a ranked list of the vivid sexual metaphors in Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s new single, “WAP,”...
Mikael Wood - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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1500 Sound Academy on Track to Reshape Entertainment Industry Career Education
Grammy Award Winners Larrance Dopson and James Fauntleroy II along with business incubator visionary Twila True unite business,...
Campus Circle Staff
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Luke Bryan: ‘There’ll always be people who say I ruined country music’
This wasn’t Luke Bryan’s first rodeo.“Am I too backlit? Hold on,” the country star said the other day...
Mikael Wood - Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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Top 10 rappers of all time: Snoop Dogg gives you his awesome list
Snoop Dogg, a man who many consider one of the greatest rappers of all time, has posted his own list of the top 10 MCs of all...
Jim Harrington - The Mercury News (TNS)
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