Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

Double-LP compilation Melt Away has been released in tandem with Matador’s 25th anniversary reissue of Bardo Pond’s Set And Setting. It comprises one

Brandon Seabrook is not a reluctant solo performer. Besides his various ensembles and appearances with other musicians, he keeps up

Ohrenschmaus is a German word that signifies a feast for the ears, and the title of the latest album by

The Hard Quartet would like you to know that this is not a project, it’s a band. But what kind

It’s time, quite literally, for Stefan Christensen to come clean. Previous recordings by the denizen of New Haven, Conn., have

BASIC began when Philadelphians Chris Forsyth and Nick Millevoi spent some of their COVID downtime talking about records. Among their

While the name of this album implies immobility, the record itself will not be confined. It first appeared in 2022

From connection comes meaning, but also pain. This album’s title words “Hang in there with me” come from third track

Wandering poet. Novelist whose work has been translated into Serbian. Gladiator opposing the efforts of New Zealand’s national library to

Poly-saxophonist (he’s up to four now) Dave Rempis and electric guitarist Tashi Dorji are hardly strangers. With their trio Kuzu

Changes come fast and hard in the 21st century, and they don’t let up. Nightshift’s last album, 2021’s Z​ö​e, caught that queasy

All good things come to an end, sometimes more than once. Originally founded in Los Angeles in 1981, Savage Republic

Jake Xerxes Fussell was raised and mentored by folklorists, but he also grew up in the age of MTV. He