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Sometimes overshadowed in his collaborations with Martin Scorcese, writer-director Paul Schrader was a singular voice of the New Hollywood generation who managed to define a style all his own and maintain an auteurist commitment to and repetition of themes spiritual, intellectual, and macabre within the context of the commercial film to present day. Raised in a fundamentalist Calvinist community in Grand Rapids, Michigan, film was forbidden throughout his childhood, and he relays his first film going experience at 17 as being a hallucinatory episode wrought with guilt and fear. But it didn’...

Rolling Stone Elliot Mazer, Engineer-Producer for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, Dead at 79 Producer behind Young’s By Michael Putland/Getty Images Elliot Mazer, the longtime producer and engineer who helped craft albums for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, among others, died at his San Francisco home on Sunday. He was 79. Mazer’s daughter Alison confirmed the producer’s death, adding that the cause was a heart attack after years of battling with dementia . “Elliot loved music,” his sister, Bonnie Murray, tells Rolling Stone. “He loved what h...

Tom Petty's first official live album, 1985's  Pack Up the Plantation: Live!, covered a wide range of material. From older Heartbreaker songs to newly released tracks, it had something for everyone — including his frequent singing partner, Stevie Nicks. After numerous earlier collaborations, Petty confidently invited her to team up again for a cover of "Needles and Pins," a combination that just made sense. "Some of my best musical memories of her are sitting on the couch and just playing the guitar while she sings," Petty told the Toronto Sun in 2014. As they each navigated their own ...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Listening to Phil Spector: A three-minute thrill ride, then a reckoning with evil [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MUS-SPECTOR-LISTENING:LA] LOS ANGELES — Pick a classic Phil Spector production. It actually doesn’t matter which. The opening eight bars of the Ronettes’ 1963 smash “Be My Baby” are among the catchiest in American song, a thump, thump-thump, splash rhythm that rockets into outer space with sizzling shakers and snares that boom like shotguns. When Ronnie Spector’s soaring voice swoops in to steal the thunder, the combined eruption is undeniably thr...

Print Pick a classic Phil Spector production. It actually doesn’t matter which. The opening eight bars of the Ronettes’ 1963 smash “Be My Baby” are among the catchiest in American song, a thump, thump-thump, splash rhythm that rockets into outer space with sizzling shakers and snares that boom like shotguns. When Ronnie Spector’s soaring voice swoops in to steal the thunder, the combined eruption is undeniably thrilling. Or take “Strange Love,” the Darlene Love-propelled gem that opens with a frolicking schoolyard melody before turning into a galloping riot of string- and percu...