Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Ryan Packard’s “Garden Variety”

While the title Garden Variety augurs ordinariness, these sounds are anything but. Ryan Packard is a percussionist who resides in

November 17, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: I Like To Sleep’s “Spectral Vibes”

When I Like To Sleep first emerged, the Norwegian instrumental trio’s sound combined polar opposites. Vibraphonist Amund Storløkken Åse, six-string-bass/guitar

November 10, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: TiTiTi’s “Izba”

Izba is named after a now-shuttered venue in Novi Sad, Serbia. Do an image search and you’ll see that it

November 3, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Rafael Toral’s “Traveling Light”

Sometimes you have to back right up to make progress. In the case of Traveling Light, Rafael Toral not only

October 27, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Buck Curran’s “Far Driven Sun”

An earlier review in these pages acknowledged that Buck Curran is steeped in guitar lore. Sometimes that manifests in pursuing

October 20, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Thomas Ankersmit’s “The Dip”

Modular synthesizers aren’t just instruments. They can be a way of life, with practitioners getting deeper into the circuits, erecting

October 6, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Group Inerane’s “Marhajan Bianou”

Group Inerane was part of a wave of bands that reset the defaults for northwest African guitar music a couple

September 29, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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