Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

More is more on the latest longplayer by these East Coast guitar spellcasters. Elkhorn’s core combo of Drew Gardner (six-string

Musicians are just like you and me, see? What did you do with your pandemic? If you were lucky, you

Hans Reichel was a one-of-a-kind guy. Born in Germany four years after the end of World War II, he showed

“The past isn’t dead. It’s not even past.” When William Faulkner wrote those words in Requiem For A Nun, he

The last couple years have been undeniably awful for a lot of people, but Joan Shelley’s experience was more complicated.

While musicians moved in and out of the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet throughout its existence, the ensemble’s 14-year run can

The compulsion to create is often linked to self-expression. But as anyone who has spent some time listening to classic

The impatient may read the name of this LP and ask, “Well, which will it be?” How does one reconcile

Songs From A Stolen Guitar is a series of reckonings. Across 10 songs, Simon Joyner sings about about things that

Karen Dalton was one of the great interpretive singers of the American folk revival, but when she died in 1993,