Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ “Skeleton Tree”

Like the specter of death’s door that haunts David Bowie’s Blackstar and the treatise on existence’s end that is Leonard

November 29, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Two decades beyond its creation, it’s now possible to read Oasis’ third LP—bloated as it is with five songs seven

November 27, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Prog rock has always been in the DNA of Swedish metallurgists Opeth, but a funny thing happened a few records

November 27, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The return of Neurosis to the world’s release bins almost always coincides with commentary that apparently mines thesauruses for grandiose

November 26, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

He was the Superman Lover of the indie scene, he kept his mirror clean, he was the best faux-Satan that

November 26, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

In 2003, Randy Newman began re-recording, solo and at the piano, a selection of songs from throughout his nearly 50-year

November 23, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania