In the 60s a musical recording technique called the “wall of sound” came to prominence which allowed artists to create complex layers of music resulting in a novel, rich orchestral feeling. While this ...

Phil Spector (1939-2021) is dead. Spector’s music, on the other hand, will not be suffering the same fate any time soon. You can’t turn on a radio (or watch a film) without hearing Spector’s ...

Phil Spector, who died on Saturday at the age of 81, has long been hailed as one of pop music's most influential producers, the man who created the wall of sound and gave us songs like "He's a Rebel," ...

In the 60s a musical recording technique called the “wall of sound” came to prominence which allowed artists to create complex layers of music resulting in a novel, rich orchestral feeling. While this ...

One of the most important developments in the last hundred-plus years of popular music has been the transformation of the recording studio from being a site for documenting music to a site for ...

Marketing his music as a “wall of sound” ranks considerably low on the list of unacceptable decisions that convicted murderer and pop producer Phil Spector made in his cruel and unusual life, which is ...

Phil Spector, the producer whose groundbreaking “Wall of Sound” recording technique powered some of the biggest songs and acts in music before he was convicted of a 2003 murder, died Saturday at an ...

Often overlooked on recordings are the studio musicians. Muscle Shoals had the Swampers, while Motown featured the Funk Brothers. In Los Angeles in the 1960s and ‘70s, the Wrecking Crew produced Phil ...

Brian Anderson’s ‘Loud and Clear’ captures the strenuous work, psychedelic vision and lasting influence of the band’s most audacious sound-system experiment. By Noah Eckstein When journalist Brian ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Picture yourself at a concert. If you’re standing by the soundboard, usually near the rear center of the venue, you’ll enjoy the best possible version of the ...

Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81. California state ...