Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Suuns’ “Hold/Still”

Some bands just aren’t into making friendly music. Montreal’s Suuns (pronounced “soons”) are one such example. Murky and dissonant, they

When Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam collaborated with Band Of Horses’ Ben Bridwell on last year’s Sing Into My Mouth,

The music on You’re Doomed. Be Nice reflects the album title, but Rob Crow’s new songs aren’t any more pessimistic

Electro-pop icons the Pet Shop Boys are still kicking after millions of albums sold and all these years of software

Apocalypse and dread have always wreathed the Renderers’ music, but it took a genuine disaster to set the stage for

It’s been nearly a decade since the Joy Formidable stormed out of Wales with an elephant gun full of shoegaze

James Szalapski’s Heartworn Highways, shot in 1974/1975 but released in 1981, is a jaw-dropping moment of prescient timing—a raw document

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania