Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

Some might say that List Of Demands sounds like it was ripped from today’s headlines, but given the way things

In the liner notes to Öppet Två, Swedish reeds player Mats Gustafsson describes a moment in 1982 that gave focus

“I am not guilty of insanity/My brain was taken in a brain robbery.” So sings one of the pseudonymous members

Le Sony’r Ra, the philosopher/composer/musician/poet known to the world as Sun Ra, died in 1993. Recordings from across his career

While it may be a stretch to say that bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten has been a citizen of the world,

Everest. Kilimanjaro. Fuji. Some mountains just have to be climbed, no matter what. Blind Willie Johnson’s “Dark Was The Night,

Not everything that Simon Joyner sings is autobiographical, but it’s always true. The Omaha-based singer and guitarist has spent the

Instrumental music has its limits as a way of advocating for social change, and Tashi Dorji knows this. But he

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