Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

“It’s hard to stay in your room,” Luke Temple sings on last LP A Different Ship. What a perfect status

A couple of years ago, Wolf Eyes declared that they no longer play noise—they play “trip metal.” Noise was dead, they said,

A cursory search online yields any number of videos with singer James Graham and guitarist Andy MacFarlane from the Twilight

Terry Ork arguably ignited rock’s first label when he put Television’s “Little Johnny Jewel” on seven-inch vinyl in 1975. And

Thirty-two years after the Olympia, Wash., trio flubbed its first notes on tape, Beat Happening’s amateur appeal remains evergreen. Cherry-picked

Will Johnson’s bottomless well of quality songcraft has obviously not hit a lull since the demise of his quintessential guitar-rock

Even as an avowed Ty Segall acolyte, I’m having a harder and harder time telling his various projects apart. While

French producer Ludovic Navarre scored a major crossover hit with 2000’s Tourist, achieving a sensitive fusion of jazz improvisation with

Chills mainstay Martin Phillipps has a lot on his mind on Silver Bullets, the beloved New Zealand outfit’s first album in

Ms. John Soda’s not the most reliable German electro twee-pop group out there, but when the band shows up, it

Urge Overkill was misunderstood in real time; it’s unlikely the band will join Archers Of Loaf or Pavement in the

For almost a decade and a half now, Richard Hawley has been perfecting and refining his own self-contained musical world.

Indie long ago declared its undying love for the Velvet Underground; history lessons are no longer required. But what may

It’s a 35-song, five-record boxed set of live Drive-By Truckers recorded over three nights at the Fillmore in San Francisco—if