Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Conor Oberst’s “Ruminations”

Ruminations is Conor Oberst’s Nebraska: It’s a set of stripped-down solo recordings, mostly just piano, harmonica and Oberst’s rough poetry,

November 22, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

It’s hard to overstate the awfulness of 1969’s Philosophy Of The World. The guitars are jarringly out of tune, the

November 20, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Almost 40 years after forming in Leeds, the Mekons have yet to take the easy route. Existentialism is a live

November 20, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

As befits a band named after a long-running soap, things don’t change very quickly in the world depicted by Scott

November 19, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

In conception, Along A Vanishing Plane is an exceedingly contemporary creation, sculpted using violins, synths, electronics and software. Yet while

November 19, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

It’s been an eternity since 2012’s Channel Orange fell like whole cloth from the R&B heavens; entire careers and administrations

November 17, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC