Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

The proposed shift from orchestral indie chamber pop to synthy electropop spurred Ra Ra Riot cellist Alexandra Lawn’s departure well

Last we heard from them, the members of Animal Collective had decamped to their childhood hometown of Baltimore for Centipede

Oh sure, this is hardly a perfect record by normal-folk standards, but it is a perfect Half Japanese record. And

In those moments of reckless abandon and unabashed displays of appreciation, metalheads will headbang, air-guitar or air-drum along to the

In 2015, Superchunk/Portastatic/Merge Records ringleader Mac McCaughan released Non-Believers, his debut solo album and one of the year’s most surprising

The term “shoegaze” or “shoegazing” is just as amorphous an idea as the gauzy sound made by its long list

Amidst Archers Of Loaf’s late-’90s shamble into long, deathlike hibernation, guitarist/vocalist Eric Bachmann “nearly set his dick on fire with

For a band as prolific as the Fall, you’d think a stopgap EP would be unnecessary. Like most releases of

With the help of producer Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Basia Bulat brings a rich, melodramatic sheen to her confessional

In the decade-plus since the swoon-worthy early singles that introduced their then-innovative blend of cutting-edge electro-pop and burnished, twilit R&B,

The road between Ty Segall albums is rarely a long one, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of twists

There’s something unearthly cool about a Lee Hazlewood record—the “Hillbilly Shakespeare” and his cosmic twang were audio dynamite when coupled

Emma Pollock, formerly of Scottish band the Delgados, is nine years into an exemplary, underrated solo career. (Of course, the