Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

The last couple years have been undeniably awful for a lot of people, but Joan Shelley’s experience was more complicated.

While musicians moved in and out of the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet throughout its existence, the ensemble’s 14-year run can

The compulsion to create is often linked to self-expression. But as anyone who has spent some time listening to classic

The impatient may read the name of this LP and ask, “Well, which will it be?” How does one reconcile

Songs From A Stolen Guitar is a series of reckonings. Across 10 songs, Simon Joyner sings about about things that

Karen Dalton was one of the great interpretive singers of the American folk revival, but when she died in 1993,

Unless you happen to be an extraordinary musician, John Tilbury has forgotten more about making more good music than you’ll

Reinier van Houdt is best known as an interpreter of new piano music, in which capacity he has performed compositions

The title Spring evokes images of rebirth and new life. But if you’re already acquainted with the work of Los

What new skill did you pick up during the 2020 lockdown? Teaching math and affect management to your kids? Defeating

In The Swarm is the second album by the trio of guitarist Brandon Seabrook, drummer Gerald Cleaver and hyphenated, mononymic

MAGNET readers probably know guitarist and visual artist David Lester from his weekly contribution to our virtual pages, which pairs

Part of the deal for rock ‘n’ roll fans is to be interested in, and often obsessed with, band minutiae.

Given a cursory look, the Trypes might’ve seemed like a just another hobby band. First formed in 1982, they were