Lars Gotrich
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In this moving video, a daughter comes to terms with the death of her mother, set to John Prine's wistful ode to the season's close.
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The combination of Savages' thundering rhythm section, Perfect Pussy vocalist Meredith Graves and Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner drops a metallic funk-punk bomb-track.
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J. Spaceman makes a living room sound like a cathedral because, well, he didn't have a choice.
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Featuring members of Wooden Wand and Royal Trux, One Eleven Heavy pays tribute to rock bands that thrived on wild-eyed improvisation, but still knew how to write an easygoing melody.
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Writer, actor and musician Donald Glover just surprise-dropped two new tracks as Childish Gambino: "Summertime Magic" and "Feels Like Summer."
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Whether you're on the beach or hard at work counting down the hours to a neighborhood cookout, you need some new tunes.
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On its first album in six years, Now, Now perfectly captures pop music's ability to transmute desire and despair into easily hummable enlightenment.
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The psychedelic ensemble's new album is a potent brew of free jazz, droning Thai melodies, minimalism and mutant funk.
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Unhinged love is manifested in bright colors and plastic surgery in a video for St. Vincent's thumping electro-rock track.
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On its debut album, Sheer Mag prove to be rock 'n' roll scholars who can map history onto present concerns.