Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: 番長 Taste’s “I Dipped My Comb In Shochu And Ran It Through The Hair Of The Night”

Let’s start with the album title. It looks luxuriant enough to apply to a Jon Hassell LP with an accompanying,

The raga is a platonic ideal for the guitarists who founded the “Takoma school” and those who have followed in

The first word on the new Vampire Weekend album is “fuck.” You heard it here first. (Unless you read that

The Carnegie Hall Concert inaugurates The Year Of Alice, a series of concerts, exhibits and publications celebrating the legacy of

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

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania