Lars Gotrich
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Anderson knows where American guitar music has been and where it is now. But mostly, she just wants to kick up some dirt, here with a Rev. Gary Davis deconstruction and a Stratocaster hoedown.
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From an acoustic ragtime jaunt to an electric, basement-bar choogle to a sad-sack closer, the Dublin-based guitarist runs through his wild styles in the NPR Music offices.
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The guitarist, who died Thursday, understood that metal works in darkness, rooting for something, anything that makes sense of this ugly human existence. Hanneman channeled it into a band that exemplifies pain.
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On Saturday night the band unexpectedly released its first album in 22 years. Ann Powers, Lars Gotrich and Otis Hart spent Sunday soaking in the band's new wall of sound.
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Once Bachman zeroes in on the center of a song, it's easy to get lost in it yourself. From a foot-stomping reel to the reflective and tumultuous title track from Seven Pines.
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For over 30 years, William Basinski has worked with tape loops. A stunning vinyl box set collects his best-known work, The Disintegration Loops, a project he finished the morning of September 11 while living in New York, and that Basinski says saved his life.
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At Maryland Deathfest, a community of decibel-shattering catharsis thrives and headbangs. Meet four people who headbanged and high-fived at Maryland's Deathfest Memorial Day weekend.
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The Against Me! singer revealed plans to undergo hormone treatments and begin living as a woman — Laura Jane Grace — to Rolling Stone.
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Jones' most recent album, The Wanting, is a compelling work of American folk music that tells stories without a single word. Watch the masterful guitarist perform a lovely set at the NPR Music offices.