Pino Palladino and Blake Mills are still chasing the “challenging and irresistible”

Pino Palladino and Blake Mills are still chasing the “challenging and irresistible”

The prolific session players turned frontmen talk subverting expectations, inverting harmonies, and producing for themselves (instead of the world’s biggest pop stars). Pino Palladino (above) and Blake Mills   Justin Daashuur Hopkins / Luke Sargent Apollo Frequencies is a series exploring sounds that seem to come from another world. In this week’s edition, a dispatch…

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6 standout songs from Dijon’s Baby

6 standout songs from Dijon’s Baby

The album’s most outwardly freaky moment, agonized ballad, and more. Kristina Loggia Dijon’s sophomore album “Baby!” is a revelation. Four years after sharing the critically acclaimed Absolutely, and on the heels of basically co-producing a huge chunk of Justin Bieber’s SWAG, the Los Angeles musician is back with another record baring his soul. This time,…

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