Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

First released in 1983, Beat Gen icon Allen Ginsberg’s two-LP epic culled 1971 sessions with Bob Dylan, 1976 recordings with

Liz Harris will never walk comfortably among the mortals. It’s just not her scene. She whispers and moans in her

Recorded during Against Me!’s yearlong 2014 world tour, 23 Live Sex Acts opens with frontwoman Laura Jane Grace imploring, “Let’s

Zach Condon was a teenage wunderkind when he recorded Gulag Orkestar, Beirut’s impressive 2006 debut. That album fused Balkan brass

While there’s an urge (and a need) for exhaustive retrospection and rarified treasure-hunting, there’s something bluntly elegant about compacting highly

If the press info sent along with Kunk is to be believed, Dope Body mostly came up with the material

Formalities first: Depression Cherry is the fifth season of Beach House, and by now, anyone who’s spent time in them

The most dangerous card shark is the one who lets you think you’ve seen his hand. Songs To Play, Robert

These garage-dwelling skate punks were so gloriously unhinged on their debut, one couldn’t help but fear that they would rein

In the weeks before release, Dan Auerbach started describing Yours, Dreamily as “really experimental” and “extra weird.” Then the Black

The Sword delivers the gawd-damn goods every single time. We’re simple folk and we just want some heady, heavy, nerdy

2015 seems like a good time to be the Chemical Brothers. Their familiar flavor of broad-minded psychedelic techno is worming