Lars Gotrich
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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.
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The 22-minute track allows Endless Boogie's rusted-out muscle car to cruise into gritty terrain with a cigarette-smoked hypnosis.
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The piano's ornamental blip in Emma Ruth Rundle's "Body" draws your attention to how the music moves the narrative of the funereal ballad forward.
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Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan and singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco joined WPLN News' Paige Pfleger in a live conversation about the album.