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Mavis Staples performs during the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Mavis Staples' gospel of resistance

Chauncey DeVega

(L-R) Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson of The Band, 1971 (Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns/Getty Images)

The Band’s secret weapon gets his due

Sabrina Carpenter performs live during The BRIT Awards 2025 (Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images)

Sabrina Carpenter's sexpot feminism

Amanda Marcotte

Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson perform together at the 2nd Annual Adopt-A-Minefield Benefit "Open Hearts, Clear Mines." (KMazur/WireImage/Getty Images)

Brian Wilson made The Beatles aim higher

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Bono in "Bono: Stories of Surrender" (Apple TV+)

Bono finds power in restraint

Sly Stone in 1969. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Sly Stone dies at 82

Boston terrier wearing headphones listening to music. (Getty Images / retales botijero)

The animals that keep a beat

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Universe starscape 3D illustration with colorful soundwave. (Getty Images / EzumeImages)

Space is noisy. We just can't hear it

Elizabeth Hlavinka

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James Blunt, here in concert in March, celebrates his 20th anniversary of the song that put him on the map by reminding fans that it's not a love song at all. (Mark Wieland / Redferns / Getty Images)

Blunt: It’s not a love song

Benmont Tench performing with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1980 (Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)

The sacred duty of playing the hits

Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes performs on July 1, 1994 in Memmingen, Germany (Fryderyk Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty Images)

What's Up?: An anthem to our frustration

Morgan Wallen (John Shearer/Getty Images for for Morgan Wallen's One Night At A Time 2024)

Bro-country has curdled

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Nick Cave (Pablo Gallardo/Redferns/Getty)

Nick Cave builds a church out of sorrow

DJ Próvaí of Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap performs during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 11, 2025. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)

Irish rappers turned Fox News villains

Cher (Marco Piraccini/Archivio Marco Piraccini/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

The outfit that defined a career

Bob Dylan (Fiona Adams/Redferns)

Bob Dylan can do whatever he wants

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Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt and Smokey Robinson performing at the American Music Honors. (John Cavanaugh)

Icons shine at American Music Honors

Lady Gaga performs during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 11, 2025, in Indio, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella)

Beauty isn't lost, just harder to find

Allee Willis on the set she designed for MTV's "Just Say Julie" (Courtesy of the Estate of Allee Willis and Magnolia Pictures)

The genius you didn’t know you knew

Paul McCartney and John Lennon backstage at the Finsbury Park Astoria, London, during the band's Christmas Show residency on December 30, 1963. (Val Wilmer/Redferns)

Idealizing Lennon and McCartney’s bond

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono in "One to One" (Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)

John and Yoko’s radical years resurface

Tori Amos at Salon's New York Studio (Salon)

Tori's muses get pragmatic

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Wings performing at the Capitol Theatre in Aberdeen, Scotland, during the band's "Wings Over the World" tour, September 22, 1975. (Michael Putland/Getty Images)

"Venus and Mars" reaffirms Wings’ impact

Singer Peter Wolf, founding member of The J. Geils Band, performs onstage during the Jim Irsay Collection Exhibit and Concert at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on January 11, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

Peter Wolf was warned about his memoir

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