Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
Essential New Music: Pink Floyd’s “The Early Years 1967-1972: Cre/ation”
Drawn from Sony’s massive (27 discs of pre-Dark Side Floyd, anyone?) boxed set of the same name, this two-disc sampler
Essential New Music: David Bowie And The “Lazarus” Cast’s “Lazarus (Original Cast Recording)”
Spacemen have long loomed large in the Bowie oeuvre. For his debut theater work and final staged project to concern
Essential New Music: Bell X1’s “ARMS”
This Irish band has been through a lot of changes, but the core of Bell X1—singer/drummer Paul Noonan, singer/bass player
Essential New Music: American Football’s “American Football”
It’s not as surprising as it could be that a band like American Football is getting a second life 17
Essential New Music: Daniel Bachman’s “Daniel Bachman”
Acoustic guitarist Daniel Bachman has been a teenaged protégé of Jack Rose and an early collaborator with Ryley Walker. He
Essential New Music: Bon Iver’s “22, A Million”
Back in 2009, Bon Iver’s Blood Bank EP mostly echoed the backwoods folk of the band’s wildly successful debut, For

















