Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Bardo Pond’s “Under The Pines”

Since its classic psych-sludge/noise-gaze debut, Bufo Alvarius, appeared in 1995, Bardo Pond has stood out in its oversaturated corner of

Rapper, spoken-word artist, producer and founding Anti-Pop Consortium member Beans hasn’t released an LP since 2011’s End It All. Now

Though Jon Spencer’s rising profile in the early-’90s pegged Boss Hog as one of his side projects due to it

Despite signing to a major label years earlier, Mastodon really didn’t lumber into the mainstream until 2011’s The Hunter. At

Anders Parker has worked in every conceivable context—Space Needle, Varnaline, Gob Iron with Jay Farrar, his broadly varied solo output—but

On its first two records, White Reaper’s garage punk garnered comparisons to Ty Segall and Jay Reatard, but those really

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania