Lars Gotrich
@totalvibration.bsky.social
Editor, NPR Music's Tiny Desk and Tiny Desk Radio. World's Okayist Guitarist. #FreeDC. Mixtapes, tea and whatnot: https://www.vikingschoice.org
Just told my kid, “See ya next year!” And, yes, I AM DELIGHTED WITH MYSELF.
January 1, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Just told my kid, “See ya next year!” And, yes, I AM DELIGHTED WITH MYSELF.
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Hello (again) from somewhere off I-81!
It was an incredible year for guitar music. I’m on All Songs Considered @npr.org talking about my favorite fingerstylists, shredders, experimentalists and power trios with @robinpr.bsky.social (There’s also an expanded list)
www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...
It was an incredible year for guitar music. I’m on All Songs Considered @npr.org talking about my favorite fingerstylists, shredders, experimentalists and power trios with @robinpr.bsky.social (There’s also an expanded list)
www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...
Viking's Choice 2025: The Guitar : All Songs Considered
On the last episode of All Songs Considered for 2025, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Robin Hilton through an exceptional year in guitar music. From Gwenifer Raymond's beautiful and brash f...
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December 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hello (again) from somewhere off I-81!
It was an incredible year for guitar music. I’m on All Songs Considered @npr.org talking about my favorite fingerstylists, shredders, experimentalists and power trios with @robinpr.bsky.social (There’s also an expanded list)
www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...
It was an incredible year for guitar music. I’m on All Songs Considered @npr.org talking about my favorite fingerstylists, shredders, experimentalists and power trios with @robinpr.bsky.social (There’s also an expanded list)
www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...
In Memoriam @npr.org has been updated with the names of folks who have died since we originally published: Jeff Kasenetz, Perry Bamonte, Howie Klein, Don Bryant, Gary Graffman, Brigitte Bardot, Richard Smallwood www.npr.org/2025/12/23/g...
In Memoriam 2025: The Musicians We Lost
D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.
www.npr.org
December 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In Memoriam @npr.org has been updated with the names of folks who have died since we originally published: Jeff Kasenetz, Perry Bamonte, Howie Klein, Don Bryant, Gary Graffman, Brigitte Bardot, Richard Smallwood www.npr.org/2025/12/23/g...
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Huge thanks to @totalvibration.bsky.social for including Whisker Fatigue here!!!
🐸🧪🐈⬛🌑🧬🐊
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🐸🧪🐈⬛🌑🧬🐊
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Viking's Choice 2025: The Guitar : All Songs Considered
On the last episode of All Songs Considered for 2025, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Robin Hilton through an exceptional year in guitar music. From Gwenifer Raymond's beautiful and brash f...
www.npr.org
December 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Huge thanks to @totalvibration.bsky.social for including Whisker Fatigue here!!!
🐸🧪🐈⬛🌑🧬🐊
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🐸🧪🐈⬛🌑🧬🐊
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Appreciate the shoutout on Lars guitar music list of 2025. I’m in the “Is that even a guitar?” category, and yes, it is, I made the whole record with my Guild D 55 and a drum machine on my phone. 🎸❤️🔥😜
Hello (again) from somewhere off I-81!
It was an incredible year for guitar music. I’m on All Songs Considered @npr.org talking about my favorite fingerstylists, shredders, experimentalists and power trios with @robinpr.bsky.social (There’s also an expanded list)
www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...
It was an incredible year for guitar music. I’m on All Songs Considered @npr.org talking about my favorite fingerstylists, shredders, experimentalists and power trios with @robinpr.bsky.social (There’s also an expanded list)
www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...
Viking's Choice 2025: The Guitar : All Songs Considered
On the last episode of All Songs Considered for 2025, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Robin Hilton through an exceptional year in guitar music. From Gwenifer Raymond's beautiful and brash f...
www.npr.org
December 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Appreciate the shoutout on Lars guitar music list of 2025. I’m in the “Is that even a guitar?” category, and yes, it is, I made the whole record with my Guild D 55 and a drum machine on my phone. 🎸❤️🔥😜
Hello (again) from somewhere off I-81!
It was an incredible year for guitar music. I’m on All Songs Considered @npr.org talking about my favorite fingerstylists, shredders, experimentalists and power trios with @robinpr.bsky.social (There’s also an expanded list)
www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...
It was an incredible year for guitar music. I’m on All Songs Considered @npr.org talking about my favorite fingerstylists, shredders, experimentalists and power trios with @robinpr.bsky.social (There’s also an expanded list)
www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...
Viking's Choice 2025: The Guitar : All Songs Considered
On the last episode of All Songs Considered for 2025, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Robin Hilton through an exceptional year in guitar music. From Gwenifer Raymond's beautiful and brash f...
www.npr.org
December 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hello (again) from somewhere off I-81!
It was an incredible year for guitar music. I’m on All Songs Considered @npr.org talking about my favorite fingerstylists, shredders, experimentalists and power trios with @robinpr.bsky.social (There’s also an expanded list)
www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...
It was an incredible year for guitar music. I’m on All Songs Considered @npr.org talking about my favorite fingerstylists, shredders, experimentalists and power trios with @robinpr.bsky.social (There’s also an expanded list)
www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...
The non-SEO headline of this story: Our favorite Tiny Desks, from the people who make them
I asked the producers, audio engineers and videographers behind Tiny Desk to make a list, yearbook superlative style. It cute.
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I asked the producers, audio engineers and videographers behind Tiny Desk to make a list, yearbook superlative style. It cute.
www.npr.org/2025/12/29/g...
The Best Tiny Desk Concerts of 2025
Which Tiny Desk made an audio engineer question everything? Which one made a producer want to cry? Touch grass? Look back on the year in Tiny Desk, with the people who make them.
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December 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The non-SEO headline of this story: Our favorite Tiny Desks, from the people who make them
I asked the producers, audio engineers and videographers behind Tiny Desk to make a list, yearbook superlative style. It cute.
www.npr.org/2025/12/29/g...
I asked the producers, audio engineers and videographers behind Tiny Desk to make a list, yearbook superlative style. It cute.
www.npr.org/2025/12/29/g...
I made The Grit’s Golden Bowl for my kid’s birthday, per her request. The Grit’s perfect tofu lives on.
December 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I made The Grit’s Golden Bowl for my kid’s birthday, per her request. The Grit’s perfect tofu lives on.
“Like a beautifully tended and designed cemetery, where cultural history and personal remembrances mingle in the air…”
The great @annkpowers.bsky.social wrote about my In Memoriam project for the NPR Music newsletter — my heart grew 3 sizes reading it 🥹 view.nl.npr.org?qs=5d93b2baa...
The great @annkpowers.bsky.social wrote about my In Memoriam project for the NPR Music newsletter — my heart grew 3 sizes reading it 🥹 view.nl.npr.org?qs=5d93b2baa...
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December 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“Like a beautifully tended and designed cemetery, where cultural history and personal remembrances mingle in the air…”
The great @annkpowers.bsky.social wrote about my In Memoriam project for the NPR Music newsletter — my heart grew 3 sizes reading it 🥹 view.nl.npr.org?qs=5d93b2baa...
The great @annkpowers.bsky.social wrote about my In Memoriam project for the NPR Music newsletter — my heart grew 3 sizes reading it 🥹 view.nl.npr.org?qs=5d93b2baa...
[me eating a big breakfast burrito]: Fuck yeah, this rules.
[immediately afterward]: Ah, fuck, I wanna die.
[immediately afterward]: Ah, fuck, I wanna die.
December 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
[me eating a big breakfast burrito]: Fuck yeah, this rules.
[immediately afterward]: Ah, fuck, I wanna die.
[immediately afterward]: Ah, fuck, I wanna die.
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Merry Christmas and a “Kiss Me” to everyone from Sixpence None the Richer and Tiny Desk 🎄 youtu.be/sSY_w9odHPk?...
Sixpence None the Richer: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Merry Christmas and a “Kiss Me” to everyone from Sixpence None the Richer and Tiny Desk 🎄 youtu.be/sSY_w9odHPk?...
Merry Christmas and a “Kiss Me” to everyone from Sixpence None the Richer and Tiny Desk 🎄 youtu.be/sSY_w9odHPk?...
Sixpence None the Richer: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Merry Christmas and a “Kiss Me” to everyone from Sixpence None the Richer and Tiny Desk 🎄 youtu.be/sSY_w9odHPk?...
I’ll say this often: I never compile In Memoriam to be exhaustive, but it is long and winding. In fact, I want folks to join the chorus of musicians who meant so much to their scenes and histories — keep their names alive! I’ll do my best repost those that do.
So many folks who’ve shaped music died this year. This is a great comprehensive retrospective that’s also missing Chicago music folks such as Ron Carrol and Keith Nunnally from J.M. Silk. I wrote a few obits of more marginal local musical figures I’ll thread below.
D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up. n.pr/3YIJurW
December 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I’ll say this often: I never compile In Memoriam to be exhaustive, but it is long and winding. In fact, I want folks to join the chorus of musicians who meant so much to their scenes and histories — keep their names alive! I’ll do my best repost those that do.
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In addition, we also lost Ray Drummond, Bunky Green, Donald Moore, Jesse Sharps, Joe Daley, Hal Galper, Sven-Åke Johansson, Pops Mohamed, George Freeman, Larry Appelbaum, Junior Byles, Jards Macalé, Nana Caymmi, Cristina Buarque, Preta Gil.
December 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In addition, we also lost Ray Drummond, Bunky Green, Donald Moore, Jesse Sharps, Joe Daley, Hal Galper, Sven-Åke Johansson, Pops Mohamed, George Freeman, Larry Appelbaum, Junior Byles, Jards Macalé, Nana Caymmi, Cristina Buarque, Preta Gil.
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In Memoriam 2025: The Musicians We Lost @totalvibration.bsky.social
In Memoriam 2025: The Musicians We Lost
D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.
www.npr.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
In Memoriam 2025: The Musicians We Lost @totalvibration.bsky.social
Hello from somewhere off I-80!
This is the project I work on all year long with NPR’s research librarians (aka RAD). It means a lot to me to remember these musicians, producers and industry folks who make our lives so much better.
This is the project I work on all year long with NPR’s research librarians (aka RAD). It means a lot to me to remember these musicians, producers and industry folks who make our lives so much better.
D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up. n.pr/3YIJurW
In Memoriam 2025: The Musicians We Lost
D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.
n.pr
December 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hello from somewhere off I-80!
This is the project I work on all year long with NPR’s research librarians (aka RAD). It means a lot to me to remember these musicians, producers and industry folks who make our lives so much better.
This is the project I work on all year long with NPR’s research librarians (aka RAD). It means a lot to me to remember these musicians, producers and industry folks who make our lives so much better.
Always read Sheldon Pearce!
Let the sunshine in: After a decade of chilly trap beats and freaky club tales, the tide is turning on the genre's dominant sound. n.pr/4scqzTO
R&B's next vibe shift is here. These 2025 albums are proof
Let the sunshine in: After a decade of chilly trap beats and freaky club tales, the tide is turning on the genre's dominant sound.
n.pr
December 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Always read Sheldon Pearce!
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Let the sunshine in: After a decade of chilly trap beats and freaky club tales, the tide is turning on the genre's dominant sound. n.pr/4scqzTO
R&B's next vibe shift is here. These 2025 albums are proof
Let the sunshine in: After a decade of chilly trap beats and freaky club tales, the tide is turning on the genre's dominant sound.
n.pr
December 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Let the sunshine in: After a decade of chilly trap beats and freaky club tales, the tide is turning on the genre's dominant sound. n.pr/4scqzTO
“You can see the kingdom from the tailgate.”
I’m on Morning Edition talking about my favorite lyric of the year, from Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, and why you can hear it 3 ways @npr.org NPR music critics share the best song lyrics of 2025
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I’m on Morning Edition talking about my favorite lyric of the year, from Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, and why you can hear it 3 ways @npr.org NPR music critics share the best song lyrics of 2025
www.npr.org/2025/12/23/n...
NPR music critics share the best song lyrics of 2025
Which song lyrics from 2025 most moved our NPR Music critics?
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December 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“You can see the kingdom from the tailgate.”
I’m on Morning Edition talking about my favorite lyric of the year, from Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, and why you can hear it 3 ways @npr.org NPR music critics share the best song lyrics of 2025
www.npr.org/2025/12/23/n...
I’m on Morning Edition talking about my favorite lyric of the year, from Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, and why you can hear it 3 ways @npr.org NPR music critics share the best song lyrics of 2025
www.npr.org/2025/12/23/n...
drone for the holidaze
ck6c-cs47
enyc-wse5
bdkq-cd2r
ahy9-wdwl
reuk-ccde
drwk-xcw3
hhdd-e364
hc4e-7s9m
hssb-54g6
q44l-bark
9cs4-xnw9
yh4h-eelt
yqsh-3b5b
y8hs-cxnw
2kcc-cpp4
dyjc-wrba
stg4-cd47
hqv4-kmcw
hbbj-g6ds
4xx7-36xd
44qa-ckmc
thorsrubberhammer.bandcamp.com/yum
ck6c-cs47
enyc-wse5
bdkq-cd2r
ahy9-wdwl
reuk-ccde
drwk-xcw3
hhdd-e364
hc4e-7s9m
hssb-54g6
q44l-bark
9cs4-xnw9
yh4h-eelt
yqsh-3b5b
y8hs-cxnw
2kcc-cpp4
dyjc-wrba
stg4-cd47
hqv4-kmcw
hbbj-g6ds
4xx7-36xd
44qa-ckmc
thorsrubberhammer.bandcamp.com/yum
Thor's Rubber Hammer
thorsrubberhammer.bandcamp.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
drone for the holidaze
ck6c-cs47
enyc-wse5
bdkq-cd2r
ahy9-wdwl
reuk-ccde
drwk-xcw3
hhdd-e364
hc4e-7s9m
hssb-54g6
q44l-bark
9cs4-xnw9
yh4h-eelt
yqsh-3b5b
y8hs-cxnw
2kcc-cpp4
dyjc-wrba
stg4-cd47
hqv4-kmcw
hbbj-g6ds
4xx7-36xd
44qa-ckmc
thorsrubberhammer.bandcamp.com/yum
ck6c-cs47
enyc-wse5
bdkq-cd2r
ahy9-wdwl
reuk-ccde
drwk-xcw3
hhdd-e364
hc4e-7s9m
hssb-54g6
q44l-bark
9cs4-xnw9
yh4h-eelt
yqsh-3b5b
y8hs-cxnw
2kcc-cpp4
dyjc-wrba
stg4-cd47
hqv4-kmcw
hbbj-g6ds
4xx7-36xd
44qa-ckmc
thorsrubberhammer.bandcamp.com/yum
That one time I wrote and recorded a pop punk Christmas song for Tiny Desk with hamsters @npr.org youtu.be/4bFlkyWkhqA?...
HMSTR: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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December 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
That one time I wrote and recorded a pop punk Christmas song for Tiny Desk with hamsters @npr.org youtu.be/4bFlkyWkhqA?...
I have restringing guitars for over half my life, but this quarter scale classical guitar is going to kill me.
December 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I have restringing guitars for over half my life, but this quarter scale classical guitar is going to kill me.
Can we get a Karen on this?
i recognize it's just a performance arts center and we've all collectively stopped giving a shit but changing the signage of the kennedy center is explicitly prohibited by law
December 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Can we get a Karen on this?
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Kennedy Center union regarding illegal changes happening at Kennedy Center now
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Kennedy Center union regarding illegal changes happening at Kennedy Center now
The one and only time I've been to Seattle (to see Roadside Monument reunite, a very Seattle thing to do), this storefront felt like a warm hug before a redeye flight.
After 12 wildly improbable years of high-flying good times at Sea-Tac Airport, the Sub Pop Airport Store will be closing on Dec. 31, 2025. Before we taxi off for good, come through and take some lovingly curated “junk” home with you.
December 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The one and only time I've been to Seattle (to see Roadside Monument reunite, a very Seattle thing to do), this storefront felt like a warm hug before a redeye flight.