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ABBA, Blondie, The Notorious B.I.G. among 2024’s additions to National Recording Registry

ABBA, Biggie, Blondie and Rudolph are entering America’s audio canon. New inductees into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress include ABBA’s 1976 album “Arrival,” The Notorious B.I.G.‘s …

Pulitzer-Winning LA Times Music Reporter Was 71

by Kwame Phillips

Chuck Philips, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist renowned for his reporting on dark corners of the music industry, died in January at age 71. No exact date or cause of …