Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Charles Bradley’s “Changes”
On his 2011 debut LP, the then-62-year-old Charles Bradley recapped his hardscrabble life story with an impassioned plea (one of

Essential New Music: Robert Pollard’s “Of Course You Are”
To sweepingly generalize, Robert Pollard fans seem to reside in one of two camps regarding the production quality of his

Essential New Music: Laura Gibson’s “Empire Builder”
Since we last heard from Laura Gibson, the supple-voiced singer/songwriter moved from Portland, Ore., to New York City, enrolled in

Essential New Music: John Kaada & Mike Patton’s “Bacteria Cult”
It’s been a long time since these guys have made material available to the public. Not so much individually—Mike Patton’s

Essential New Music: The Body And Full Of Hell’s “One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache” And The Body’s “No One Deserves Happiness”
The Body might be a duo, but on records, they gather recruits to help them stretch and blur genre lines

Essential New Music: Cheap Trick’s “Bang Zoom Crazy… Hello”
You can’t name many bands with a 40-year touring and recording history that don’t look and sound like a joke.

Essential New Music: Iggy Pop’s “Post Pop Depression”
Josh Homme claims the thing that broke up his first band, Kyuss, was hearing Iggy Pop and David Bowie make

Essential New Music: Pete Yorn’s “ArrangingTime”
If there's a code for frontal-lobe permeating infectious melodies under the guise of indie pop/rock, Pete Yorn has cracked it.