Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Uniform’s “Wake In Fright”

There’s a lot to take in on this Brooklyn duo’s second record. Thematically, vocalist Michael Berdan mines his issues, burdens

Knowing that a musician spent more than two decades in a band is a good way of telling that they

A darkness pervades John Paul Pitts’ lyrics on Snowdonia, the first Surfer Blood album since the death, by cancer, of

Tim Showalter wants you to know how much he loves rock ’n’ roll. He’s as enraptured by the life-affirming powers

There are two kinds of Sadies on Northern Passages—one group making spacey, airy country/folk rock that sounds like it could’ve

Matthew Shipp’s music cycles like the seasons, and death and rebirth are part of the program. Piano Song is his

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania