Lars Gotrich

Sylvan Esso Joined NPR Music's Listening Party For 'Free Love'

By Lars Gotrich • Sep 21, 2020

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Updated on Sept.

It's SZA SZN: The R&B Star Returns With 'Hit Different,' Featuring Ty Dolla $ign

By Lars Gotrich • Sep 4, 2020

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SZA is finally back with a track of her own after two soundtrack collaborations, one with

Riley Gale, Fiery Singer Of Power Trip, Dead At 34

By Lars Gotrich • Aug 26, 2020

Riley Gale, the throat-shredded vocalist for the Texas-based metal band Power Trip, died Monday of unspecified causes. He was 34.

His death was announced in a Facebook post by his bandmates:

The Long Tail Of Pylon, According To Pylon

By Lars Gotrich • Aug 26, 2020

The first time I heard Pylon, I lost my dang mind.

Bright Eyes Joined NPR Music's Listening Party For 'Down In The Weeds...'

By Lars Gotrich • Aug 18, 2020

UPDATE: The listening party has ended.

This Friday at 4 p.m. ET, join us for an online listening party for Bright Eyes' new album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, hosted by All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and featuring a live conversation with Bright Eyes members Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott.

Phil Elverum Returns To A Refuge As The Microphones

By Lars Gotrich • Aug 6, 2020

Phil Elverum has built and battled entire universes. From 1996-2003, his band, The Microphones, was mostly just him alone in a studio, as friends from Olympia sang and banged on instruments as needed. With a bull-headed bravado that comes from a dreamer's naïveté, chests swelled to the size of the moon, the dead flew off as vultures and the dawn promised something new every morning.