Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Cyndi Lauper’s “Detour”

Though her career went supernova via the weird, wild, gloriously iconoclastic molecular restructuring of pop/rock on 1983’s landmark She’s So

It’s odd that, given his handful of high-profile collaborations, podcast theme compositions and fi lm work, Nick Thorburn’s main band,

This Leeds post-punk quartet grabbed me by the lapels almost immediately a few years ago with the release of its

It’s easy to crash when making a road record. The setup of writing about life on the move can foster

Brian Tristan (a.k.a. Kid Congo Powers) has mangled the guitar for some of punk’s and post-punk’s most unselfconsciously artistic bands:

What’s a veteran alt-country band to do? The Jayhawks’ Hollywood Town Hall (1992) and Tomorrow The Green Grass (1995) are

Once your brain filtered out the distorted guitars and supersonic rhythm section, it was obvious that X was a folk-rock

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania