Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Thursday, July 6, 1972. Britain’s youth tune in to the BBC’s Top Of The Pops. They are confronted by a

Three years ago, Feelies guitarist Glenn Mercer had the idea to create atmospheric accompaniments to the pictures in his mind,

Since arriving some 13 years back, the diseased minds within California’s Icarus Line never intended to be your pals. They

Now that we’re in the era of car-commercial “indie” rock, it’s quaint to think back on a time when calling

When Animal Collective gets the “post-Y2K Phish” tag, it’s more in reference to the group’s position as the house band

Why Better Nature is billed as Silversun Pickups’ “most human music thus far” is something of a mystery. The slinky, dreamy Los

The biggest stumbling block for a band like Lucero—which has sculpted and defined its own sound after what seems like

Whitney Rose’s voice sounds like it’s coming out of a time machine in RCA’s Studio B in Nashville, circa 1960.

Michael Benjamin Lerner has reached a career point where other artists might start to settle into their carved-out sound. Instead

Quick recap: Hell finally froze over, and someone convinced Louise Post and Nina Gordon to start talking and writing together

These are halcyon days, kiddos! While most of the world seems to be falling apart at the seams, ready to

The target audience for Elitism For The People, Pere Ubu’s vinyl archival boxed set of studio and live work from

There are those who would contend that all of Glen Hansard’s musical accomplishments have been cut and tailored from the

Since 2002’s Up The Bracket (and you can include Babyshambles if you want to reach further backward), audiences have been