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MCA Records

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   The Singer the Label Wanted: Femme Fatale and the One Album That Wasn't Supposed to Be the Only One

   MCA Records signed them. MTV played them. Cheap Trick took them on tour. Their manager developed brain cancer mid-promotion and the label decided they'd rather keep the singer than the band. A look at Femme Fatale's 1988 debut — the album that should have been the start of a career and instead became the entirety of one — and at the singer who has spent thirty-six years building a different kind of music life around the eighteen months when the major-label commercial infrastructure briefly noticed her.

   By Deep Cuts · Issue 03 · 24 July 2026 · 14 min read

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   Lillian Axe and the Long Pursuit of a Hit

   They had Ratt's manager. They had Ratt's guitarist as their producer. They were nearly fronted by Warrant's Jani Lane. For seven years across four albums, Lillian Axe were the band the industry kept handing the right introductions to, and the audience kept walking past.

   By Deep Cuts · Issue 01 · 24 May 2026 · 18 min read