Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

In troubled times, music can offer a perspective on what’s going on, or it can be an antidote. Ora aspires

It’s been nearly six years since Nathan Bowles put out Plainly Mistaken, his last solo album, but he has not been slacking.

Love Changes Everything. Who is the recipient of that titular sentiment, and who is doing the loving? Given that this

Milford Graves never seemed to be that worried about making records. An early run of recordings for ESP-Disk in the

One mark of artists is that when they get really good at something, they change things up. It’s hard to

The Handover suggests something transactional. But the sound and the effect of the music created by oudist Aly Eissa, violinist

Based on the evidence of issued recordings, Bardo Pond seems to have ceased making music. While archival releases continue to

Walking After Dark picks up right where its predecessor, World What World, left off in 2021. At the time, things didn’t look so