Lars Gotrich
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Amy Grant maps her fabulous, four-decade career with some of her coziest and heartfelt Christmas songs, not to mention a delightful version of "Jingle Bells."
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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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J. Spaceman makes a living room sound like a cathedral because, well, he didn't have a choice. -
On its first album in six years, Now, Now perfectly captures pop music's ability to transmute desire and despair into easily hummable enlightenment. -
The psychedelic ensemble's new album is a potent brew of free jazz, droning Thai melodies, minimalism and mutant funk.
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On its debut album, Sheer Mag prove to be rock 'n' roll scholars who can map history onto present concerns.
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Fully embracing the D.C. punk band's pop and experimental leanings, Priests' first album isn't a direct response to the state of the nation so much as a state of mind.
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Across ambient, jazz, psychedelic and American Primitive styles, this year proved that the possibilities of the guitar continue to flourish. -
Our resident Viking recalls 2016 in feral metal, dystopian and ocean-mimicking synths and Afro-futurist pop cubism. -
For two decades, the band has maintained a mix of thoughtfulness and savagery unparalleled in metal. This is peak Zao, back with its most feral and fully realized offering in years.
