Posts tagged with "Kylie Minogue"
GREG KURSTIN
GREG KURSTIN
Blazing his own trail from jazz scholar to pop hit-maker
By Michael Gallant
He’s produced a bevy of wildly successful artists including Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Ke$ha, Tegan and Sara, James Blunt, Dido and the Shins. But Greg Kurstin came to his hit-making career through an unconventional route—as a student of jazz piano. “I loved arranging songs and finding different voicings for chords,” says Kurstin, who studied at New York’s...
KYLIE MINOGUE
KYLIE MINOGUE
Fresh arrangements give the global pop star’s biggest hits new life
“If I turn up at the studio in heels or with my hair done, I probably just arrived from an event,” says Kylie Minogue with a laugh. “Other times my shoes are off, the makeup is off, I’m making a mess. I like to feel completely comfortable, and I am a complete clown in the studio.”
It’s been 25 years since the Australian pop queen’s cover of Little Eva’s...
GOSSIP
GOSSIP
Beth Ditto on personalities, producers and rocking for the right reasons
Creating the follow-up to a hot-selling major-label debut can be downright stressful, but Gossip was looking to do so with as little drama as possible. After 2009’s Music for Men proved a success, the Portland trio’s members readied a new batch of songs—but found themselves unsettled on the album’s direction. “Being just a three-piece, it would be easy to...