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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    LA’s Fanny is critically praised but largely forgotten

    Fanny is the first all-female rock band signed to a major label. They started in LA. David Bowie once called them “one of the most important female bands in American rock.”

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    By Madeleine Brand • May 6, 2019 • 1 min read

    Fanny is the first all-female rock band signed to a major label. They started in LA. David Bowie once called them “one of the most important female bands in American rock.” Writer Dylan Rupert spent time with Fanny for season two of KCRW’s Lost Notes.

    The full story about Fanny comes to Lost Notes on May 16. Subscribe here.

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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Sarah Sweeney

      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Michell Eloy

      Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play

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      Yael Even Or

      Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Dylan Tupper Rupert

      host of the KCRW podcast Lost Notes: Groupies

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    The full episode

    5 of 5
    Instagram experiments with hiding likes on posts
    1. 0:00United Nations predicts dire future for biodiversity
    2. 8:56Democrats’ efforts to subpoena Trump’s financial records
    3. 18:05What are the effects of telling the story of a Holocaust victim on Instagram?
    4. 24:44How could hiding likes on Instagram affect influencers and advertisers?
    5. 38:51LA’s Fanny is critically praised but largely forgottenYou’re reading this
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