Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Boris With Merzbow’s “Gensho”

Boris and Merzbow are such natural complements, it’s surprising they haven’t collaborated more. As on 2007’s live platter Rock Dream,

May 7, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Explosions In The Sky’s “The Wilderness”

Though they managed to distill and even popularize post-rock’s driving intensity and dramatic dynamics for millions of households with their

May 5, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Last Shadow Puppets’ “Everything You’ve Come To Expect”

The debut from the Last Shadow Puppets (Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner and best mate Miles Kane), 2008’s The Age Of

May 3, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Mike And The Melvins’ “Three Men And A Baby”

In the annals of lost rock albums, none could be as unassumingly murky as Mike And The Melvins’ 1999 sessions.

May 1, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Richmond Fontaine’s “You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To”

You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To is being touted as Richmond Fontaine’s farewell LP, and

May 1, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Tim Hecker’s “Love Streams”

“Obsidian Counterpoint,” the five absorbing minutes of electronic pinprick shimmers, airy flutish burbles and spongy, spasmodic shard-stabs that open Tim

April 30, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Charles Bradley’s “Changes”

On his 2011 debut LP, the then-62-year-old Charles Bradley recapped his hardscrabble life story with an impassioned plea (one of

April 30, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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