Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

U.K. indie rocker Pete Astor has a voice like Robyn Hitchcock’s, placed high and front in the mix, and he

Lucinda Williams is on a roll: 2014’s double album Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone was a late-career highlight,

It’s easy to forget that Dr. Dog used to be a seriously weird band. Most of its recent existence has

Engineer/producer Bobby Harlow has said that White Fang collectively and “in all sincerity” hoped Chunks would ultimately “sound like a

After noise-rap upstarts/notable flakes Death Grips disbanded again without warning last summer—leaving Nine Inch Nails without an opening act for

One of our cleverest, hardest-working, most underrated songwriters returns after four years with a characteristic grab bag of brilliance and

The Vulgar Boatmen are an archetypal cult band. Those of us who love them really, really love them, but the

Restlessness and reliability aren’t often traits that coexist, but they define Deerhoof’s two-decade existence. Rarely has a band so hell-bent

Unless you’re an avid Anglophile, it probably won’t matter that Cradle To The Grave, Squeeze’s first album of original material

There may be some among your friends who want to dismiss Vancouver electronic combo Young Galaxy as nothing but a

We’re long past worrying whether a new Killing Joke album is going to compromise the integrity of the band’s post-2002

The inaugural releases by AUM Fidelity were by the David S. Ware Quartet and William Parker’s Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra.