Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

On one hand, A Sunny Day In Glasgow sounds like an elemental mash-up of Cocteau Twins, Sparks, the New Pornographers,

Jungle Brothers may have come straight out the jungles of Harlem with what would ultimately become the template for the

The tech industry's new-money piranhas haven’t gnawed all the weirdness out of San Francisco just yet. Consider Kelley Stoltz, whose

Seriously? Why not? C'mon, honestly. What’s so terrible about tossing an egg out a third-story window, spilling ink on the

Hard to imagine, considering the band practically invented punk, indie and every other vital modern musical form, but as the

Just because Will Toledo is a newcomer doesn’t mean that he’s new. The Virginia-born, Seattle-based songwriter has released album after

When we last saw Savannah four-piece Baroness, it was exploring vast expanses of sound and style on 2012’s double-LP Yellow

As the soundtrack to the dreamily experimental, 75-minute home movie of the same name, the Laurie Anderson-directed Heart Of A

Having a production team consisting of Chris Common, Matt Bayles (then a band member) and Alex Rose (who replaced Bayles

Jenny Lee Lindberg plays bass with psychedelic dream-pop band Warpaint. On her solo debut, Lindberg and co-producer/drummer Norm Block pare

Look at the Bob Dylan pursing his lips, readying for a smirk on the cover of The Cutting Edge boxed

It's been 10 years, and we probably should have seen it coming, but lo and behold, Deerhunter has evolved from

Perhaps “abstract modern composition” best describes Preamble, a record perfectly suited to its title. Composed by Dawn Of Midi’s Qasim