Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Elbow’s “Little Fictions”

After a 25-year career that began with a Mercury Prize shortlisting and a Brit Award nod for best new band,

Scott H. Biram has got kind of a corny shtick on paper: the old one-man band, all grizzly and gruff,

Though some things change, others stay the same. Across 22 years and multiple incarnations, Douglas McCombs (also of Tortoise, Eleventh

"Indie rock” has become such an amorphous and broad category that it’s nearly meaningless. But you could do worse than

Eric Matthews didn’t invent chamber pop, but he certainly set an impossibly high bar with his 1995 debut, It’s Heavy

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

On Sorority Noise’s “A Portrait Of,” singer Cameron Boucher mumbles a little anecdote about what the afterlife might be like—“and