Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Dead C’s “Trouble”

The Dead C has maintained the same personnel—Bruce Russell, Michael Morley and Robbie Yeats playing guitars, drums, synths—and maintained the

September 1, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

In the time that’s elapsed since its last proper album, 2010’s A Chorus Of Storytellers, Jimmy LaValle’s the Album Leaf

August 29, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

I’ve spent a lot of time over the years slogging my way through supposedly “difficult” (inherent subtext: “but good for

August 28, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Electronic music often depends on layers of synthesizers and pounding club beats to deliver its message. Alex Cameron and his

August 28, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

These three reissues document the venerable Nick Saloman clarifying the vision of his British psych-rock project the Bevis Frond. Nearly

August 27, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

For the past seven years, Dungen guitarist Reine Fiske has side-projected his frontman aspirations into the Amazing, his gorgeously atmospheric,

August 27, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Freetown Sound is so sharply perforating in its look at being black and queer in 2016 that it nearly erases

August 25, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC