Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra/Small Unit’s “Spectral Fiction”

On March 24 of last year, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra used Chicago’s Adler Planetarium as a launch pad for

The members of this guitar/drums duo live in North Carolina’s Triangle, a conglomeration of metropolitan areas that contains three major

Full disclosure: The album under consideration and I go way back. My old micro-label put one of its songs on

Sound’s a funny thing. You can feel its vibrations, but you’ll never put your hands on them. Concepción Huerta exploits

February 23, 2024 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

When Kayla Cohen spoke to MAGNET in 2016, she gave this explanation for selecting the name Itasca: “The word means

February 16, 2024 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The name of Norwegian quartet Krise translates as “Crisis,” and the title of its debut LP, Svartsymra, could be rendered

February 9, 2024 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

If you set about explaining Die Enttäuschung in its native language, you might fairly plead, “Es ist kompliziert.” Not because

February 2, 2024 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania