Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

The Continental Drifters were one of the great coulda-woulda-shoulda bands of the ’90s. They came with a pedigree that included

Hello? Yes, I’m standing alongside the Hume Highway outside Melbourne. We’re going to need an ambulance, stat. Send whatever driver

With his pointed folk sensibilities and his familial gospel thrust, this Olympia, Wash., singer/songwriter is always filled with good intentions

Cocteau Twins was three albums and seven EPs into its career before its first U.S. release, The Pink Opaque, arrived

These Blackpool musical anarchists burst upon Thatcher’s ’80s like an angrier, punkier colleague of Gang Of Four or PiL. ’Twas

On misfit’s miscellany “what’s normal anyway,” Miguel Pimentel touchingly enumerates his internal contradictions: “too opinionated for the pacifists,” “too far

Thirty-five years on from “Love Will Tear Us Apart”—Joy Division’s magnum opus during a short career that was essentially a

Eszter Balint is a fascinating face familiar to downtown NYC film lovers for her work in Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than

More menacing and Velvets-influenced than its jangly Paisley Underground brethren, the Dream Syndicate was born seemingly fully formed, creating a

It’s hard not to pick up a spring in your step while listening to mariachi music. The uplift of the

To help commemorate the 100th anniversary of Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, Merge is re-releasing Richard Buckner’s 2000 album

Old indie-rock bands don't fade away anymore—they merely fester and split, then inevitably reunite for a lucrative run through the internet-fueled

Anyone acquainted with the Canadian collective’s rootsy approximation of rural American soundscapes—true rust-bucket takes on folk, blues, R&B, country, gospel,