Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

To help commemorate the 100th anniversary of Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, Merge is re-releasing Richard Buckner’s 2000 album

Old indie-rock bands don't fade away anymore—they merely fester and split, then inevitably reunite for a lucrative run through the internet-fueled

Anyone acquainted with the Canadian collective’s rootsy approximation of rural American soundscapes—true rust-bucket takes on folk, blues, R&B, country, gospel,

The late Bert Jansch was a master of the acoustic guitar, a Scotsman renowned within the British folk scene of

If you frequent the Hopscotch Festival, which takes place in Raleigh, N.C., at the end of each summer, you should

Over the course of close to 50 albums, Richard Thompson has set the bar extraordinarily high, so high that even

Four vinyl reissues from the Fall cast a critical eye on Thatcher-era England They were named for a Camus novel;

Combining punk and bluegrass seems like a harebrained idea, but maybe not so far-fetched for a band that started performing

What a voice Sasha Siem has, and what a sense of melody. That’s easy to miss the first few times

When you christen yourself after a revered Leonard Cohen classic, much is expected, and the Old Ceremony has met and

Some folks tell us that we’re in the last days of the CD. If that’s the case, let me tell

Black Mountain’s debut ring true a decade later When we say that Black Mountain’s debut is a perfect summer album,

The Orb—basically founding member Alex Paterson and longtime associate Thomas Fehlmann—are the goddamn godfathers of EDM, unapologetic pioneers of psychedelic

Band Of Horses’ Ben Bridwell and Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam both have roots in South Carolina, and Band Of