Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
Essential New Music: Ms. John Soda’s “Loom”
Ms. John Soda’s not the most reliable German electro twee-pop group out there, but when the band shows up, it
Essential New Music: Urge Overkill’s “Stull”
Urge Overkill was misunderstood in real time; it’s unlikely the band will join Archers Of Loaf or Pavement in the
Essential New Music: Richard Hawley’s “Hollow Meadows”
For almost a decade and a half now, Richard Hawley has been perfecting and refining his own self-contained musical world.
Essential New Music: The Velvet Underground’s “Loaded: Reloaded 45th Anniversary Edition”
Indie long ago declared its undying love for the Velvet Underground; history lessons are no longer required. But what may
Essential New Music: Drive-By Truckers’ “It’s A Great Time To Be Alive!”
It’s a 35-song, five-record boxed set of live Drive-By Truckers recorded over three nights at the Fillmore in San Francisco—if
Essential New Music: Harmonia’s “Complete Works”
Krautrock completism is not for the faint of heart. Consider Cluster’s Hans-Joachim Roedelius, for example, with upward of 50 full-length
Essential New Music: Julia Holter’s “Have You In My Wilderness”
Julia Holter has called this fourth LP her “weirdo record.” Coming from someone with as laudably odd a catalog, this
Essential New Music: Grimes’ “Art Angels”
Like it or not, someone like Grimes (nee Claire Boucher) comes to any conversation of her music with a lot
Essential New Music: Blue Daisy’s “Darker Than Blue”
Other artists have mixed classical and rap, most notably the Voelker Brothers on The Rapsody Overture. U.K. producer, writer and
Essential New Music: Diane Coffee’s “Everybody’s A Good Dog”
The first time I met Shaun Fleming, he was warming up for a radio session with his main band, Foxygen.
Essential New Music: Wand’s “1,000 Days”
I listen to a lot of neo-psych. To hear my spouse talk about it, I only listen to neo-psych. But I’d like
Essential New Music: Josh Ritter’s “Sermon On The Rocks”
Poor Josh Ritter. God has anointed him a prophet, sending him out to tell the rest of us that: a)
Essential New Music: Los Lobos’ “Gates Of Gold”
Los Lobos' new album, Gates Of Gold, comes out Sept. 25. Established in 1973, Los Lobos is an American institution,
Essential New Music: Deafheaven’s “New Bermuda”
Though bands have been routinely fusing metal aesthetics with shoegaze dynamics and post-rock’s larger-than-life scope for decades, Deafheaven’s 2013 album, Sunbather,