Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Dan Sartain’s “Century Plaza”
Alabama’s own Dan Sartain, after spending most of his career mining the darker and more dangerous edges of garage-infused rockabilly,

Essential New Music: Glenn Jones’ “Fleeting”
Homemade capos and invented tunings aside, Glenn Jones continues his reign as king of American Primitive Guitar. While we’re sure

Essential New Music: Conrad Keeley’s “Original Machines”
As you might imagine, the first solo album from the …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

Essential New Music: The Besnard Lakes’ “A Coliseum Complex Museum”
For the last dozen or so years, Montreal’s Besnard Lakes have been making epic, progressive shoegaze pop that shines with

Essential New Music: Ben Abraham’s “Sirens”
Welp, it’s official: I’ve fallen the fuck off. Ten years ago, if you had put a record like Sirens on

Essential New Music: Paul Burch’s “Meridian Rising”
Like poor, sainted Billy Pilgrim, Paul Burch has come unstuck in time. He’s turned into Jimmie Rodgers—either that, or Rodgers

Essential New Music: Elvis Presley’s “Elvis Presley: The Album Collection”
I am not about to go down in history as the guy who had the hubris to give a 60-CD

Essential New Music: School Of Seven Bells’ “SVIIB”
SVIIB should have been a swift successor to 2012’s Ghostory, School Of Seven Bells’ third full-length. Alejandra Deheza and Benjamin