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Kim Gordon raps her shopping list — it's hot and terrifying

Sonic Youth's co-founder took her cues from a '60s girl-group, but forges a new lane. NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich functions as your antidote to the algorithm in eight tracks to know this week.
In her 2015 memoir, <em>Girl in a Band</em>, Kim Gordon credits The Shangri-Las' speak-sing style as an influence on her own. The '60s girl-group's lead singer, Mary Weiss, died last week.

There are so many ways for music to enter your life. At your corner shop, at a party, on someone's playlist or podcast, via radio, smartly soundtracking a pivotal moment on a television show or movie — total sensory overload! As someone who listens to an absurd amount of music every day for both NPR Music and myself — not to mention a 5 year old who keeps a playlist of favorites heard from her papa's music — I can function as your

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