Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
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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
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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
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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
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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
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R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania
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
