Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Vector 23, the seventh LP from multi-city rockers Joseph Airport, is the song cycle about infamous airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper

In/Out/In is not a “new” Sonic Youth archival release. Everything on it has been released before. Two tracks were on

Forty-one years ago, Roy Montgomery and his colleagues in the Pin Group helped launch a specular run of independently made,

The Incredible String Band’s truckload of instruments and Yes’s multi-necked guitars did each band’s appeal no harm; novelty begets intrigue

One possible upside of being a solo performer in these times is that you’re equipped to carry on in isolation.

The Silt Trio’s name clues you in to its relationship with history. The group churns layers of accumulated knowledge, mixing

For devoted, longtime fans of Pat Fish (a.k.a. the Jazz Butcher), The Highest In The Land could be a difficult

Compared to the late 2000s and early 2010s, indie-rock album cycles have felt more like meeting up with old high-school

You can’t get around dealing with time when, like Jake Xerxes Fussell, you’re a second-generation folklorist. How much do you

Savage Republic first convened in the early 1980s. Original guitarist Bruce Licher and a shifting array of musicians shook up

A title like New Spells immediately raises the question, what happened to the old ones? Ava Mendoza’s latest solo album

When Arnold de Boer isn’t singing and playing guitar with the Ex, he records under the name Zea. Untethered from

The pandemic has precipitated plenty of shut-in recording projects, mostly involving some degree of solitary activity. Poor Boy On The

Depending on your perspective, Just Like Jim is a tale of comfort or caution. Your prized possessions may not only

Mars Williams has the kind of name that, once heard or read, is not forgotten. But even if you don’t