Jason Heller
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Pete Shelley, the Mancunian co-founder and singer of Buzzcocks, embedded a vulnerability and honesty into early punk's genetic code, forever changing the genre.
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Author Nicholas Eames's series The Band is a joyous mashup of classic rock and fantasy tropes — because if there were monsters, why wouldn't there be bands of celebrity mercenaries to slay them?
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After a near-death experience, the doom metal trio's sprawling gravity and thunderous majesty takes an introspective turn.
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The wildly talented Tuareg guitarist returns to his North African roots on his latest album.
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The debut from guitarist Anthony Pirog and Fugazi's rhythm section pushes and pulls through a compelling conversation between aggression and meditation.
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Where A Crow Looked At Me dealt with the shattering experience of Phil Elverum losing his wife to cancer, Now Only ponders how, when, and why one might carry on.
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The sprawling, 16-song album is a cornucopia of spirit-lifting, even occasionally reflective party jams.
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Kyle Craft's second album is full of unabashed odes to courtship, confusion and the timeless power of storytelling in song.
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The American Southwest continues to inform Calexico's sprawling, cross-cultural indie rock, but here it's a more self-contained, even lonesome affair.
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Ty Segall is a scholar of rock, and Freedom's Goblin might as well be his PhD thesis.