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Phil Spector Built a Wall of Sound That Couldn’t Contain the Monster Within Him
But Spector was different. At the start, on the Teddy Bears’ “To Know Him is To Love Him” — a rephrasing of the epitaph from his father’s gravestone that Spector turned into a Hot 100 No. 1 in 1958 — his sound was not so very far removed from the other recordings of the day, many of which carried the spacious aura of the rooms in which they were cut, investing early rock and pop with the mystical sense that new frontiers were being explored. Eventually though, he recognized how to make that aura the centerpiece of his records. You can hear how he did just that in the very first hit on Philles, the Crystals’ “There’s No Other Like My Baby” from 1962. Built like a rocket with three stages, it begins simply, with bass, guitar and voice rippling outward in stark echo before a piano...
Inspired by Ana Gabriel and Jenni Rivera, Ivonne Galaz Takes on the Emerging Corridos Tumbados Genre
Corridos tumbados, the emerging regional Mexican music genre led by Gen Z artists, got a major global showcase when 19-year-old Natanael Cano performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last October. Cano’s record label, Los Angeles-based Rancho Humilde, is also leading the wave with the hip-hop-infused corridos with artists like fellow Mexican singer Junior H and now Cuban-born artist Ovi. Enter Ivonne Galaz, the label’s first female signee, who is looking to represent women in this growing movement with her debut single “A Mi Modo” (My Way),” out today. In the video, Galaz — wearing not the sexy outfits long associated with female singers, but black sweats — comes out guns blazing. “Let’s get it!” she says as the song’s intro, delivering swaggeri...
La Mosca’s Guillermo Novelis Details Hometown Livestream From Argentina: ‘It’s Very Symbolic For Us’
#Deramalloalmundo streams Sept. 19. La Mosca, the Argentine big band whose infectious, danceable songs — including “Para no verte más” and “Todos tenemos un amor” — became hits throughout Latin America, will livestream their first quarantine show, #Deramalloalmundo (From Ramallo to the World), on Saturday (Sept. 19). The caveat: all nine band members will be onstage. “There are nine of us, and we are all essential,” says lead singer Guillermo Novellis, speaking on the phone from Ramallo, the group’s hometown (ergo the name of the show). Having a nine-piece band onstage during COVID is as surprising as, well, having a nine-man group at all (the name La Mosca, by the way, translates to The Fly). But La Mosca’s brash wind section is what always made the group stand out, in additio...
