Essential New Music: Edith Frost's "In Space"

Essential New Music: Edith Frost’s “In Space”

Nearly 20 years separate In Space from Edith Frost’s last LP, It’s A Game. Where’s she been? Living life, moving
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Essential New Music: Joe Chambers / Kevin Diehl / Chad Taylor's "Onilu"

Essential New Music: Joe Chambers / Kevin Diehl / Chad Taylor’s “Onilu”

In a time when it’s hard to know just who and what to believe, Onilu shows how easy it can
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Essential New Music: Gunn-Truscinski Duo's "Flam"

Essential New Music: Gunn-Truscinski Duo’s “Flam”

Sand City, the Gunn-Truscinski Duo’s debut album, was the culmination of a half-dozen years of occasionally public and frequently private
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Essential New Music: The Drip Edges' "Kicking The Tires On The Clown Car"

Essential New Music: The Drip Edges’ “Kicking The Tires On The Clown Car”

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
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Essential New Music: Steven R. Smith's "Triecade"

Essential New Music: Steven R. Smith’s “Triecade”

With Triecade, Steven R. Smith marks 30 years of mostly solitary music-making. Formerly a member of Thuja and Mirza (both
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Essential New Music: Damon Locks' "List Of Demands"

Essential New Music: Damon Locks’ “List Of Demands”

Some might say that List Of Demands sounds like it was ripped from today’s headlines, but given the way things
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Essential New Music: Lars-Göran Ulander's "Öppet Två"

Essential New Music: Lars-Göran Ulander’s “Öppet Två”

In the liner notes to Öppet Två, Swedish reeds player Mats Gustafsson describes a moment in 1982 that gave focus
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Essential New Music: The 'Fronts' "Mamo Waves"

Essential New Music: The ‘Fronts’ “Mamo Waves”

“I am not guilty of insanity/My brain was taken in a brain robbery.” So sings one of the pseudonymous members
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Essential New Music: Sun Ra's "Lights On A Satellite: Live At The Left Bank"

Essential New Music: Sun Ra’s “Lights On A Satellite: Live At The Left Bank”

Le Sony’r Ra, the philosopher/composer/musician/poet known to the world as Sun Ra, died in 1993. Recordings from across his career
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Essential New Music: Ingebrigt Håker Flaten's "(Exit) Knarr—Live At Artacts '22"

Essential New Music: Ingebrigt Håker Flaten’s “(Exit) Knarr—Live At Artacts ’22”

While it may be a stretch to say that bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten has been a citizen of the world,
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Essential New Music: Samuel Blaser / Marc Ducret / Peter Bruun's "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground"

Essential New Music: Samuel Blaser / Marc Ducret / Peter Bruun’s “Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground”

Everest. Kilimanjaro. Fuji. Some mountains just have to be climbed, no matter what. Blind Willie Johnson’s “Dark Was The Night,
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Essential New Music: Simon Joyner's "Coyote Butterfly"

Essential New Music: Simon Joyner’s “Coyote Butterfly”

Not everything that Simon Joyner sings is autobiographical, but it’s always true. The Omaha-based singer and guitarist has spent the
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Essential New Music: Tashi Dorji’s "We Will Be Wherever The Fires Are Lit"

Essential New Music: Tashi Dorji’s “We Will Be Wherever The Fires Are Lit”

Instrumental music has its limits as a way of advocating for social change, and Tashi Dorji knows this. But he
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Essential New Music: Cleared's "Hexa"

Essential New Music: Cleared’s “Hexa”

Cleared is a Chicago duo with fixed personnel but a morphing modus operandi. When Michael Vallera and Steven Hess started
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