Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

Krautrock completism is not for the faint of heart. Consider Cluster’s Hans-Joachim Roedelius, for example, with upward of 50 full-length

Julia Holter has called this fourth LP her “weirdo record.” Coming from someone with as laudably odd a catalog, this

Like it or not, someone like Grimes (nee Claire Boucher) comes to any conversation of her music with a lot

Other artists have mixed classical and rap, most notably the Voelker Brothers on The Rapsody Overture. U.K. producer, writer and

The first time I met Shaun Fleming, he was warming up for a radio session with his main band, Foxygen.

I listen to a lot of neo-psych. To hear my spouse talk about it, I only listen to neo-psych. But I’d like

Poor Josh Ritter. God has anointed him a prophet, sending him out to tell the rest of us that: a)

Los Lobos' new album, Gates Of Gold, comes out Sept. 25. Established in 1973, Los Lobos is an American institution,

Though bands have been routinely fusing metal aesthetics with shoegaze dynamics and post-rock’s larger-than-life scope for decades, Deafheaven’s 2013 album, Sunbather,

Though Kylesa has released seven proper albums since forming in 2001, Exhausting Fire is the fourth—and best—installment of what will hopefully one

Three years ago, guitarist Tom Carter (Charalambides, Sarin Smoke, etc.) checked into a German doctor’s office with what seemed like

Creepy-sexy pre-EDM goddess Peaches expands her bitchy brand and salty sound beyond naughty electropunk for Rub, her first album since 2009’s I

Although Felt fans Alasdair MacLean and bassist James Hornsey started collaborating while in their teens and formed their first band