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At First Resonator Awards, It’s Not Just About Female Music Stars, but the Women Behind Them, as Producers and Engineers Get the Spotlight


At the Resonator Awards for female producers and engineers, Boygenius and Shirley Manson helped celebrate Alanis Morissette, Emily Lazar and others.

“If you’re here, you already ‘get it,’” SiriusXM host Jenny Eliscu declared at the Resonator Awards, held Tuesday to honor six trailblazing women — recording artists Alanis Morissette, Caroline Polachek, and Corinne Bailey Rae, and behind-the-scenes innovators Catherine Marks, Laura Sisk, and Jennifer Decilveo — for their work as producers, engineers and mixers. … Many years later, Emily and I would form what could only be described as a long-distance love affair: emails, late-night phone calls, texts, plotting world domination, figuring out ways how we could mentor and lift other women up, give us more visibility and change the culture in studios. Bedroom-pop artist Remi Wolf (one of the ceremony’s three performers, along with former Cherry Glazerr keyboardist-turned-solo star Sasami and electropop singer-songwriter Empress Of) bravely covered the “Jagged Little Pill” hit “Hand in My Pocket” while Morissette looked on, and indie-rock darling Polachek interrupted her own acceptance speech to fangirlishly gasp, “Alanis, are you here with us tonight?

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