Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Originally released in 2004, The Well Of Memory faces a sterner test than most reissued albums by dint of nomenclature

The latest volume in Bulbous Monocle’s Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 reissue campaign vaults over the Matador years back to

Thirteen years separate The Collapse Of Everything from its predecessor, Survival & Resistance. The gap seems particularly notable since Adrian

Hyperboreal Trio came by its name honestly. Danish alto saxophonist Signe Emmeluth and Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten have both

Tight And Loose is an artifact of a time before San Francisco became a bedroom community for the tech empires.

House And Home signals the return of Wheelhouse—an improvising ensemble comprising saxophonist Dave Rempis, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz and bassist Nate

Some combinations are so natural that, in retrospect, you have to ask, “What took them so long to get together?”

Aging punks, take note: Those veterans of post-hardcore reference point Bitch Magnet, guitarist Jon Fine and drummer Orestes Morfin, have

Some musicians need just the right instruments to create. Colin Andrew Sheffield is not picky that way. If you happen

Seeing, says a cliché from another century, is believing. If you saw Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran perform, you’d know

Titles are often clues to an artist’s intentions, but Words Were Coming Out Our Ears may be more of a

Trust a man whose ideal compositional form is the palindrome to reckon with this axiom: Everything comes back to where

Matters of hierarchy often come to the fore when composers and classical ensembles represent themselves on an album cover. Who’s

Eli Winter is Chicagoan by choice, and you know what they say about the seriousness of converts. The guitarist moved