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Two decades ago at this time, we were looking back on a year punctuated with big pop hits and a ton of breakouts throughout rock, indie-rock, hip-hop and alternative music.
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Almost 30 years after her breakthrough, Liz Phair is still writing songs worthy of a greatest hits album.
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Like magic, these live performances have the same amount of precision and craftsmanship as the album versions do. Hear The War On Drugs perform, live in, studio for the World Cafe.
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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 South Carolina band recorded a session featuring tracks from its record Time in the Sun from Sputnik Sound in Nashville.
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It was the year that music fans saw "grunge" going out of style, with the mainstream steadily leaning more into pop, hip-hop and alternative.
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The additional instrumentation on the new version of Dacus' track from earlier this year complements its intense story.
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"The Only Heartbreaker" enlists an '80s sound in classic "Take On Me"-style that emphasizes the histrionics of intentionally sabotaging something or someone.
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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.