Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Let’s start with the album title. It looks luxuriant enough to apply to a Jon Hassell LP with an accompanying,

The raga is a platonic ideal for the guitarists who founded the “Takoma school” and those who have followed in

The first word on the new Vampire Weekend album is “fuck.” You heard it here first. (Unless you read that

The Carnegie Hall Concert inaugurates The Year Of Alice, a series of concerts, exhibits and publications celebrating the legacy of

On March 24 of last year, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra used Chicago’s Adler Planetarium as a launch pad for

The members of this guitar/drums duo live in North Carolina’s Triangle, a conglomeration of metropolitan areas that contains three major

Full disclosure: The album under consideration and I go way back. My old micro-label put one of its songs on

Sound’s a funny thing. You can feel its vibrations, but you’ll never put your hands on them. Concepción Huerta exploits

When Kayla Cohen spoke to MAGNET in 2016, she gave this explanation for selecting the name Itasca: “The word means

The name of Norwegian quartet Krise translates as “Crisis,” and the title of its debut LP, Svartsymra, could be rendered

If you set about explaining Die Enttäuschung in its native language, you might fairly plead, “Es ist kompliziert.” Not because

Elena Setién started making her last album, Unfamiliar Minds, just as COVID shut things down, and the stuckness of that time manifested

Mariano Rodriguez is a far-southern representative of the Takoma school of acoustic-guitar playing. Based in Bariloche, Argentina, he’s been recording

Some albums are like photo portraits, artfully arranged to catch their good side from the right angle and retouched so