(And a special shout-out to Pretty Bitter’s Pleaser, where D.C.’s premier indie pop band belt their way through a catchy and colorful reckoning with all the sadness and death that follows in the wake ...
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.