Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Drive-By Truckers’ “It’s A Great Time To Be Alive!”

It’s a 35-song, five-record boxed set of live Drive-By Truckers recorded over three nights at the Fillmore in San Francisco—if

November 8, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Krautrock completism is not for the faint of heart. Consider Cluster’s Hans-Joachim Roedelius, for example, with upward of 50 full-length

November 7, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Julia Holter has called this fourth LP her “weirdo record.” Coming from someone with as laudably odd a catalog, this

November 7, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Like it or not, someone like Grimes (nee Claire Boucher) comes to any conversation of her music with a lot

November 6, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Other artists have mixed classical and rap, most notably the Voelker Brothers on The Rapsody Overture. U.K. producer, writer and

November 5, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The first time I met Shaun Fleming, he was warming up for a radio session with his main band, Foxygen.

November 1, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

I listen to a lot of neo-psych. To hear my spouse talk about it, I only listen to neo-psych. But I’d like

October 31, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Poor Josh Ritter. God has anointed him a prophet, sending him out to tell the rest of us that: a)

October 31, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania