Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

If you’ve lost touch with the band’s work, something new from Mogwai almost demands a barefoot run through the bountiful

At least two of the following mildewed factoids seem mandatory in any Robert Pollard review: “used to be a teacher,”

Indie icon, folk troubadour, pop medium. Mac McCaughan has assumed many musical guises for his Portastatic project, which has existed

Let’s get this right out in the open: Yes, Fleet Foxes sound like My Morning Jacket and, in turn, Band

Listening to Mudhoney’s eighth full-length is reminiscent of the tribunal scene in Animal House, where Otter addresses the matter of

On 2005’s Supernature, Goldfrapp proved itself the life of the party, delivering a heady stew of glammy stomps and groovy

Beach House’s druggy, dreamy self-titled debut drew polite applause from the indie cognoscenti in 2006, but expect the thunderous standing

It’s tempting to spend as much time contemplating the tectonic-plate-shifting dynamics of how Radiohead’s seventh full-length was released as it

Every spook-rock kid worth his superstitious salt should unearth the first three albums from Leonard Cohen, the veritable grandfather of

Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, the gentlemen who make up Arab Strap, have a reputation for being the last word

This four-CD boxed set can’t and won’t do anything lofty like write the definitive history of a bountiful musical decade,

Take this album title in either of two ways. On one hand, it could be a reference to the record’s