Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

Across a couple of decades, Bill Nace has filled his dance card with a who’s-who of noise liberators. If you

Musician, DJ, show organizer—Shelley Salant is the kind of person who makes scenes keep on happening. The southeastern Michigan music

If any two guys have earned the acronym GOAT, it’s Peter Brötzmann and Keiji Haino. Both are titanic performers and

Play Models Of Duration to the unprepared, and they won’t know what hit them. They’ll undoubtedly recognize that they’re facing

Baba Commandant And The Mandingo Band achieves a classically elemental mix of sounds on its third album. The West African

The Bergisch-Brandenburgisches Quartett took its name from the two German land regions where its four members resided. Rüdiger Carl (reeds,

The guitar may be easily portable, but it is nonetheless freighted with all manner of baggage. In diverse locales around

“Shit Changes,” proclaims one of the tunes that bassist Michael Formanek wrote for Multicolored Midnight, but Thumbscrew persists. That’s pretty

Marisa Anderson has spent most of the last four years angling away from the solo music she made during the

“On any given night, it’s a different band that’s the greatest rock ’n’ roll band in the world,” Keith Richards