Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Elena Setién started making her last album, Unfamiliar Minds, just as COVID shut things down, and the stuckness of that time manifested

Mariano Rodriguez is a far-southern representative of the Takoma school of acoustic-guitar playing. Based in Bariloche, Argentina, he’s been recording

Some albums are like photo portraits, artfully arranged to catch their good side from the right angle and retouched so

Edition Redux is the latest in a sequence of bands that Ken Vandermark has formed that permit him to explore

All is not sweet inside of Dulce. María Elena Silva is a singer and guitarist with a past in the flatlands and

Knowing that Lea Bertucci has made a record doesn’t mean you know what sort of music she’s made or even

Have you heard the one about the composer/sound theorist who teamed up with a slow-motion metal guitarist? There you go,

Daniel Bachman’s latest album takes its name from a tune that’s been sung by Songs Of The Pioneers, Billy Bragg

Roscoe Village is a comfortable neighborhood on Chicago’s north side where you can drop a few bucks on brunch. It’s

The Holy Mother (Plays The Rudra Veena) is the vinyl debut from Madhuvanti Pal. The relationship between femininity and the rudra

No lesser a mind than Stephen Hawking once invoked Goldilocks’ search for just-rightness when discussing the very narrow set of

When musicians who have come up through Western musical systems embrace “just intonation” (the more mathematically consistent system that was

Feelies concerts are the stuff of legend. Setlists might not change much from decade to decade (hell, the band might

In another review written three-and-a-half years ago, I opined that Irreversible Entanglements are in it for the long haul. That’s