
Lars Gotrich
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The band pulls off a pop music magic trick, indulging nostalgia and crafting a vintage '90s patchwork dress in pop song form.
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Water is a fitting metaphor for Sage's music, in which stories, sounds, emotions and motions overlap not with a clash but a surprising ease.
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Songwriter Tommy Marolda delivers a deliciously clever power-pop soap opera in three minutes.
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The guitarist responds to the quietude and complexity of his subject with bursts of compassion and even confusion.
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The New Jersey band's groove-heavy, reverb-laden hardcore swaggers as much as it smiles.
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Guitarist Patrick McDermott and pedal steel player Barry Walker unite again for a song as gentle as a sunkissed stream.
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As they have every year since 1986, members of the Hall will select from a group of nominees – though these days, the nominees tend to represent a wider spectrum of popular music.
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Some of us have always loved Beauty Pill's fiercely, intricately unique debut; the rest of y'all finally caught up.
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Wheatie Mattiasich's dreamy, eerie music could fill a forest cathedral.
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The singer makes four simple words into an Escher-esque puzzle built on loops and layers of her voice.