Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The appeals of the P.S.F. Records catalog are many and diverse, but they can be summed up rather simply this

It was nearly two decades between 1991’s Metallica and 2008’s Death Magnetic. Nearly two decades of collective head-scratching among fans,

When you hear the words “American landscapes,” maybe you imagine your favorite Ansel Adams photograph or that time you surveyed

Many musicians rack up the miles just to get to work, but travel has been an especially inescapable aspect of

This recording represents a nodal point in musical history. The three participants were already connected by a web of acquaintance

Tea drinkers doubtless knew from the start: Keep an eye on this P.G. Six guy. The name, which seems to

The 21st century may seem rough, but we really do live in kinder, gentler times. In our era, a character

Like many suddenly ascendant artists, James Brandon Lewis was around for quite a while before he broke into wider public

Strange Bedfellow is the second album by White Heaven, a band that was active in Tokyo from 1985 to 1997.

Live long enough and you’re bound to build some confidence in what you know. But if you live that long,

Circumstances shape how art is made and how it’s perceived. So it is with the circumstances surrounding The Candle And

In name and sound, Furling feels like a record that makes sense of the last few years. After all, one

Calling your band Gunslingers is just asking for a world of trouble. Failure to deliver the badassery it implies practically

In Mike Gangloff’s galaxy, solo albums are like comets; they don’t come around very often, but when they do, they

If you try to drill down into the specifics of that frequently voiced complaint that music doesn’t sound like it

An Imaginal Abydos is the first album by Primordial Undermind in more than a decade. You might suppose that the

Ibises is a trio of Chicago-based musicians who were not even a band yet when they played the gig that