
Otis Hart
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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If an artist was willing to confront their truths, Albini was ready to take them into the gaping maw. The recording engineer, who died last week, left an indelible mark on how we hear music.
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Shane MacGowan was a famously hard-drinking but brilliant musician who shot to fame in the 1980s with the folk punk band The Pogues.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer helped write the blueprint for Americana music, with songwriting credits including "The Weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek."
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The Irish folk duo unveils its new album with a stirring lullaby.
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Almost 30 years after her breakthrough, Liz Phair is still writing songs worthy of a greatest hits album.
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The son of singer Steve Earle, Justin Townes Earle recorded eight albums, including 2019's The Saint of Lost Causes. His death was announced on his Facebook page Sunday night.
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The master lyricist and poet leaves behind a catalog of oblique indie rock that inspired a cult following.
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The guitarist and vocalist helped pave the way for psychedelic rock in the mid-1960s.
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The former member of The Walker Brothers and singer of "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" was also one of experimental music's most beloved composers.
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Dick Dale, the surf rock pioneer who took guitar distortion to new levels and whose version of "Misirlou" became pop-culture shorthand, died on Saturday night.