Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

Bill Orcutt’s Music For Four Guitars is a bit like a favorite dish. It tasted great the first time, delicious

The last time that MAGNET checked in on Scottish singer/guitarist Alasdair Roberts, surveying the stylistic zigzags of his last few

About a month ago, producer/author Joe Boyd came to Chicago to promote his new book. And The Roots Of Rhythm

If you die with unfinished business, there’s a good chance that means you were living right up to the end.

In 1982, the Ex named its second album History Is What’s Happening. Four and a half decades since the band’s

Dylan Golden Aycock is generally identified as a guitarist, and with good reason. He’s an Imaginational Anthem alumnus, and while

Aficionados of dreamy, jangly guitar, particularly if it reminds old heads of the “college rock” of yore—like early R.E.M. or

Bone Bells is the third recording by Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and American guitarist Mary Halvorson. By dint of a

Nearly 20 years separate In Space from Edith Frost’s last LP, It’s A Game. Where’s she been? Living life, moving

In a time when it’s hard to know just who and what to believe, Onilu shows how easy it can

Sand City, the Gunn-Truscinski Duo’s debut album, was the culmination of a half-dozen years of occasionally public and frequently private

Drip Edges singer/songwriter/guitarist Jeremy Scott—formerly of the Reigning Sound—is an avowed Bob Mould disciple, and that’s clearly evident as the

With Triecade, Steven R. Smith marks 30 years of mostly solitary music-making. Formerly a member of Thuja and Mirza (both