"[Jonathan Demme] was sensitive to the fact that each musician had as much excitement to bring to the screen as to the music," Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth write of the director's Stop Making Sense. Richard E. Aaron/Redferns/Getty hide caption
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Gorillaz latest album, Humanz, is out April 28. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels were the stars of Jonathan Demme's Something Wild, but Demme's use of The Feelies (left) felt just as important. Courtesy of Criterion Collection hide caption
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The producer Mike WiLL Made-It, whose beats can be heard on the first two singles from DAMN., the new album by Kendrick Lamar. Mary Kang/Courtesy of Universal Music Group hide caption
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Prince onstage in 1979. Leni Sinclair/Getty Images hide caption
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Kendrick Lamar at Music Hall of Williamsburg on December 16, 2016, in Brooklyn, New York. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for American Express hide caption
Tuesday
Sunn O)))'s Greg Anderson (center) mugs with brewers from Right Proper, Stone and Pen Druid to make "Soused," a beer inspired by the drone-metal band's collaboration with Scott Walker. Clarissa Villondo/Karlin Villondo Photography hide caption
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Firefighters and medics near the site of the Ghost Ship underground arts venue in Oakland, Ca., after a fire claimed the lives of at least thirty-six people. The East Bay Times won a Pulitzer for its reporting around the tragedy. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption
Sleater-Kinney (from left, Janet Weiss, Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker) will release new music as part of a series to benefit Planned Parenthood. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The New Yorker hide caption
Thursday
Kendrick Lamar performs on the Samsung Stage during day two at Austin City Limits Music Festival 2016 at Zilker Park on October 1, 2016. Rick Kern/Getty Images hide caption
Britney Spears, onstage in Las Vegas in September 2016. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption
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Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek in 2012, just one year after the service launched in the U.S. It now has 50 million paying subscribers. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
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The Indian vocalist Kishori Amonkar and tabla player Zakir Hussain posing at an awards ceremony in Mumbai, India in February 2016. Amonkar died on April 3, 2017 at age 84. STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Drake in 2016, just before he released Views, which would go on to be the year's most successful album. NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images hide caption