Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Various Artists’ “Day Of The Dead”

Day Of The Dead is the 20th compilation album from the Red Hot Organization to benefit AIDS awareness, and the

July 9, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: case/lang/veirs’ “case/lang/veirs”

I'm trying to imagine a world in which creating an all-star act is actually as simple as one member (in this

July 7, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Fitz And The Tantrums’ “Fitz And The Tantrums”

Fitz And The Tantrums come roaring out of the gate on this self-titled effort with “Hand Clap,” a song that

July 5, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Various Artists’ “C87”

Venerable British label Cherry Red continues to mine the U.K. indie-pop of the ’80s for archival sets. The five-disc Scared

July 3, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Jim Breuer And The Loud & Rowdy’s “Songs From The Garage”

While the rock/comedy combination has a long, storied and often successful history, incidences of Spinal Tap, Bad News and Tenacious

July 3, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Peter Brötzmann/Heather Leigh’s “Ears Are Filled With Wonder”

At age 75, saxophone/clarinet/taragato player Peter Brötzmann could easily coast on past accomplishments. Instead, the German free-jazz founder is forging

July 2, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Heliotropes’ “Over There That Way”

A world removed from the over-driven crunch, brawn and bash of Heliotropes’ 2013 debut LP A Constant Sea, Over There

July 2, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Mudcrutch’s “2”

Mudcrutch was/is Tom Petty’s band from the early 1970s, which included future fellow Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench and guitarist Mike

June 30, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania