Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
Essential New Music: R.E.M.’s “Out Of Time: 25th Anniversary Edition”
Chamber pop doesn’t sell. And yet, when R.E.M.—after 10 years of grassroots groundwork—made its big leap to household-name status in
Essential New Music: Pretenders’ “Alone”
On the surface, the idea sounds ill-advised: Chrissie Hynde—one of rock’s greatest voices, one of its most raw lyricists, most
Essential New Music: Ennio Morricone’s “Morricone 60”
Ennio Morricone’s new record deal with Decca, to curate and newly conduct and record selections drawn from the best of
Essential New Music: De La Soul’s “And The Anonymous Nobody…”
“There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described,” said photographer Garry Winogrand in describing his professional raison d’etre.
Essential New Music: Pink Floyd’s “The Early Years 1967-1972: Cre/ation”
Drawn from Sony’s massive (27 discs of pre-Dark Side Floyd, anyone?) boxed set of the same name, this two-disc sampler
Essential New Music: David Bowie And The “Lazarus” Cast’s “Lazarus (Original Cast Recording)”
Spacemen have long loomed large in the Bowie oeuvre. For his debut theater work and final staged project to concern
Essential New Music: Bell X1’s “ARMS”
This Irish band has been through a lot of changes, but the core of Bell X1—singer/drummer Paul Noonan, singer/bass player
















