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Em Casalena

Em Casalena

Writer

Em Casalena is a music journalist based in Arizona and has been working in the industry for over a decade. Em has formerly written for Arena Music and Phoenix New Times.

Em's favorite musicians include Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush, Willie Nelson, Nirvana, Luciano Pavarotti, Bjork, FKA Twigs, Poison Girls, Lightning Bolt, Ethel Cain, and far too many more.

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    3 Old School 1960s Songs That Every Great Rock Songwriter Secretly Studies (Even Today)

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  • Revisit Cash’s best covers below that saw him turn someone else’s story into his own. Never has a cover sounded so innate as they do here.

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    Born on This Day in 1947, an Underrated Session Singer and Actress Who Was the First British White Singer To Be Signed to Motown

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