Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Across a couple of decades, Bill Nace has filled his dance card with a who’s-who of noise liberators. If you

Musician, DJ, show organizer—Shelley Salant is the kind of person who makes scenes keep on happening. The southeastern Michigan music

If any two guys have earned the acronym GOAT, it’s Peter Brötzmann and Keiji Haino. Both are titanic performers and

Play Models Of Duration to the unprepared, and they won’t know what hit them. They’ll undoubtedly recognize that they’re facing

Baba Commandant And The Mandingo Band achieves a classically elemental mix of sounds on its third album. The West African

The Bergisch-Brandenburgisches Quartett took its name from the two German land regions where its four members resided. Rüdiger Carl (reeds,

The guitar may be easily portable, but it is nonetheless freighted with all manner of baggage. In diverse locales around

“Shit Changes,” proclaims one of the tunes that bassist Michael Formanek wrote for Multicolored Midnight, but Thumbscrew persists. That’s pretty

Marisa Anderson has spent most of the last four years angling away from the solo music she made during the

“On any given night, it’s a different band that’s the greatest rock ’n’ roll band in the world,” Keith Richards

More is more on the latest longplayer by these East Coast guitar spellcasters. Elkhorn’s core combo of Drew Gardner (six-string

Musicians are just like you and me, see? What did you do with your pandemic? If you were lucky, you

Hans Reichel was a one-of-a-kind guy. Born in Germany four years after the end of World War II, he showed

“The past isn’t dead. It’s not even past.” When William Faulkner wrote those words in Requiem For A Nun, he