Maria Sherman
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On the band's first song since 2014, My Chemical Romance exorcises a demon.
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Rarely does a life-altering album reveal itself, right away, to alter your life. But for Maria Sherman, Tiger Trap's 1993 album was a swift sonic gateway to reconsidering the power of soft sounds.
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We deserved a good show, and we got one of the best in years. But it wouldn't be the Grammys without a few familiar mistakes.
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Korean pop's near-total global ubiquity may be intimidating for the uninitiated, but getting into the music shouldn't be. Our introduction includes tracks by H.O.T., Girls Generation, BTS and more.
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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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Emo has its survivors, but few can command attention the way Brand New has in eight years without an album. The band's surprise return with Science Fiction comes, characteristically, on its own terms.
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A country star turned rock 'n' roll pioneer, Jackson's prolific career protested patriarchal standards of music new and old. In doing so, she paved the way for countless rock singers who followed.
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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 Philadelphia band gets at the heart of youthful romance with peculiar — and, frankly, gross — scientific specificity.
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New member Melina Ausikaitis leads this weird pop song as Joan Of Arc's members bike and skateboard during a fireworks display.