Maria Sherman
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NSYNC's 2000 smash was the peak of the TRL era, but it was also an outlier — a subtly forward-thinking pop record that got everything right about where the mainstream was headed.
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With spitting synths and vocals drenched in reverb, the Brazilian trio's variegated take on deathrock, post-punk and psych challenges the confines of each genre.
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In the title track from Petal's new EP, Kiley Lotz wrestles with realistic expectations and mental health, making her disquietude known with nothing but a guitar and her voice.
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If you thought All Of Something signaled the end of Sports (the band), then surprise! The high-energy breakup song "Making It Right" appears on a split 7" with sob rockers Plush.
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Love in pop music is often painted in grandiose gestures, but sometimes it feels truest in just feeling "OK."
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Chumped's Anika Pyle and Dan Frelly are back with a new band that's more pop than punk and a song named for a 19th-century abolitionist and suffragist.
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The Melbourne indie-pop band knows that darkness is best served deceptively, through happy sounds and complicated sentiment.
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The debut single from the Seattle grunge-pop band doesn't ignore the gracelessness of youth. It embraces it.
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The gothy teens of Gothenburg, Sweden's Agent Blå mix indie-pop and post-punk to make what they call "death pop." The first single from the band's debut album is sinister and sweet.
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The band excels at crafting impossibly memorable pop songs, and it does so here with a capital P.