Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Islands’ “Should I Remain Here At Sea?” And “Taste”

It’s odd that, given his handful of high-profile collaborations, podcast theme compositions and fi lm work, Nick Thorburn’s main band,

This Leeds post-punk quartet grabbed me by the lapels almost immediately a few years ago with the release of its

It’s easy to crash when making a road record. The setup of writing about life on the move can foster

Brian Tristan (a.k.a. Kid Congo Powers) has mangled the guitar for some of punk’s and post-punk’s most unselfconsciously artistic bands:

What’s a veteran alt-country band to do? The Jayhawks’ Hollywood Town Hall (1992) and Tomorrow The Green Grass (1995) are

Once your brain filtered out the distorted guitars and supersonic rhythm section, it was obvious that X was a folk-rock

Raised in Wales and based in California, Cate Le Bon knows a bit about transitions. The glam-Bowie look she’s adopted

Despite the Mark Ronson-produced Out Of The Game in 2012, Rufus Wainwright’s last decade has been best spent away from

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania