Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Pissed Jean’s “Why Love Now”

One of the reasons Pissed Jeans is a great band that (whether you know it or not) has released its

June 4, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Real Estate’s “In Mind”

Across three LPs, Real Estate has cemented its status as a hallmark indie act, not through some buzzworthy new style

June 3, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Sondre Lerche’s “Pleasure”

For more than a decade, Norwegian-turned-New-Yorker Sondre Lerche explored confessional singer/songwriter reveries, Burt Bacharach-tinted chamber pop and the kitchen-sink gamut

June 2, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Jesus And Mary Chain’s “Damage And Joy”

Since 1992’s Honey’s Dead, the Jesus And Mary Chain’s records have followed a certain formula: Waves of corrosive guitar distortion

June 1, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Coco Hames’ “Coco Hames”

After a decade of fronting the Ettes, and a little time filling in for Neko Case in the New Pornographers,

May 31, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Ha Ha Tonka’s “Heart-Shaped Mountain”

Music journalists like to ask unanswerable questions, and one of the most popular queries in our stringbag briefcases is, “Why

May 30, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania