Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Boston’s Quilt is not blessed by age or geography to possess a legitimate claim on the ability to channel ’60s

The Brooklyn pop stylists in Lucius have a lot going for them—strong songwriting, a striking visual and performance sense, a

From near the start to the end, from pre-Ziggy to postmortem—the vinyl re-release of Bowie At The Beeb and final album

Rangda’s third album makes a strong case for giving in to the void. Drummer Chris Corsano (Björk, Vampire Belt) and

Cavern Of Anti-Matter is the new Berlin-based band from Stereolab’s Tim Gane, with synth specialist Holger Zapf and Stereolab drummer

Usually, we’d be quick to dismiss a band that names itself after a viral video, but since these guys named

The worst fate for a remix album isn’t incompatibility—it’s irrelevance. By that standard alone, this second swan dive into Yoko

Side Pony goes down very, very smooth. How smooth? Like an earworm—or maybe an earthworm—making its cool, moist way through

A trio made up of seasoned veterans within their respective musical fields, Nevermen is TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe,

Santi “Gold” White was my discovery of 2008, a new-wave fever dream of synth-happy pop and celebrity DJ support (in

You wouldn’t expect a band with that name to make this kind of expansive, hook-savvy music, but here we are.

With two couples comprising a five-piece lineup, we can only imagine the verbal bottle rocket-chucking that Radiation City bassist Matt

If Richard Hawley was more psychedelic story-weaver than twilight troubadour, or if Robyn Hitchcock had been separated at birth from

The sound plied by Laser—the ethereally jumpy trio fronted by Reverie Sound Revue and ex-Broken Social Scene vocalist Lisa Lobsinger—isn’t