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Punk Producer Glen ‘Spot’ Lockett’s 10 Essential Recordings

As the house producer for SST Records, Lockett shaped the sound of hardcore from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. He died last week at 72.

By Christopher R. Weingarten

Black Flag (Music Group) Glenn Lockett Husker Du Minutemen, The Nineteen Hundred Eighties Pop and Rock Music Rollins, Henry Saint Vitus (Music Group) Watt, Mike

Punk Producer Glen ‘Spot’ Lockett’s 10 Essential Recordings

As the house producer for SST Records, Lockett shaped the sound of hardcore from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. He died last week at 72.

By Christopher R. Weingarten

Deaths (Obituaries) Lynyrd Skynyrd Music Pop and Rock Music Rossington, Gary

Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist, Dies at 71

The last surviving original member of the classic Southern rock group, he played the soaring slide guitar solo on “Free Bird” and co-wrote “Sweet Home Alabama.”

By Neil Genzlinger

Deaths (Obituaries) Great Britain Mackey, Steve (1966-2023) Nineteen Hundred Nineties Pop and Rock Music Pulp (Music Group)

Steve Mackey, a Mainstay of the Britpop Band Pulp, Dies at 56

Shortly after he joined that long-running group in 1987, it rose from obscurity to chart-topping success in what came to be called the Cool Britannia era.

By Alex Williams