Lars Gotrich
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The folk-punk unit performs hopeful, shout-alongable songs about seeking freedom in the face of tyranny, exhaustion and everyday nonsense.
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Filled with pop mosaics, Surrender feels like a quintessentially summer album. Naturally, we asked Maggie Rogers for a roséwave playlist. -
Cruise's instrument, a voice of such intense calm it could be unsettling, made her a natural collaborator of director David Lynch — and, later, new-wave icons The B-52s.
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's 2022 class leans heavily on pop hitmakers from the 1980s, but also includes rapper Eminem and country star Dolly Parton, who initially rejected her nomination.
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At his last recorded concerts, the avant-garde outlaw's seemingly disparate sound worlds came together.
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Mark Lanegan, who also made music with Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins, had a rumbling rasp in his voice that could convey the weight of the world.
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The band exists somewhere in the deconstructed '90s punk nexus of Fugazi, Unwound and Shellac, but its high-definition payoff is somehow more psychedelic.
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Lucier changed the way we think about sound through monumental works like I Am Sitting in a Room and Music on a Long Thin Wire.
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You don't simply listen to Sweeping Promises — you move, you groove, you strike a pose with an effortlessly cool 'tude.
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Overo's "Another Year in Hell" is an exasperated thrust into Zoom-fatigued abyss.
