Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
Essential New Music: The Coathangers’ “Nosebleed Weekend”
It’s been 10 years since we first got a burnt copy of a burnt copy of the Coathangers. It was
Essential New Music: Cluster’s “1971-1981”
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, two German dudes—Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius—spurred an artistic movement
Essential New Music: Aesop Rock’s “The Impossible Kid”
Back in the day, Avirex made jeans to match its Butter Softs, backpacks and headphones, and Pumas were the daily
Essential New Music: The Dandy Warhols’ “Distortland”
It's been a while since Portland’s Dandy Warhols graced us with new material: 2012, in fact (the somber and uneven
Essential New Music: A Dead Forest Index’s “In All That Drifts From Summit Down”
A New Zealand-via-London-via-Melbourne sibling duo, A Dead Forest Index highlights both worldliness and dichotomy on its debut LP. Musically, the
Essential New Music: Moderat’s “III”
The latest album from Berlin supergroup Moderat is likely its most accessible, too. As lead single “Reminder” suggests, and the
Essential New Music: Pere Ubu’s “The Architecture Of Language 1979-1982”
You don’t hear the terms “dada,” “avant-garde” and “punk” combined as much as you used to, but back in the
















