Lars Gotrich
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Filled with pop mosaics, Surrender feels like a quintessentially summer album. Naturally, we asked Maggie Rogers for a roséwave playlist.
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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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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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A groovy refinement of Dummy's influences — namely, the unclassifiable and impossibly cool pop music of Stereolab, Broadcast and Silver Apples.
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In 2 minutes and 20 seconds, Philly rave duo Ghösh turns the dance floor into a mosh pit.
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Maria Elena Silva's voice floats like a feather swishing this way and that, painting invisible shapes with the wind. Her music, spacious and exploratory, does the same.
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Resonant gongs, vibraphone, fluttering trumpet and groaning, synth-like transmissions from Aarset's guitar coalesce over the seven minutes of "Manta Ray."