Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Hox’s “Duke Of York”

Hox is Edvard Graham Lewis of Wire and Swedish electronic musician Andreas Karperyd. They aren’t exactly strangers, having made several

Ah, Norway! Where the synthesizers never set and the northern lights twinkle like a great celestial arpeggiator. Thomas Moen Hermansen,

Birmingham, Ala., indie psych/folk mainstays Through The Sparks are anything but predictable. Tapping a vein equal parts New Order to

To amass 20 years in one cauldron or genre in this fickle mess of a music business deserves high praise

“Untitled Melancholy Song"—that could be the working title of two thirds of the songs in Elliott Smith’s catalog. On Heaven

Find me a person who hasn’t somehow experienced the bubblegum-flavored majesty of the Cars and I’ll show you someone who’s

It’s a story repeated throughout the ages: Band records bitchin’ debut—a collection of the best parts of its creative existence—and

Boston’s Quilt is not blessed by age or geography to possess a legitimate claim on the ability to channel ’60s

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania