Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Silversun Pickups’ “Better Nature”

Why Better Nature is billed as Silversun Pickups’ “most human music thus far” is something of a mystery. The slinky, dreamy Los

October 7, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The biggest stumbling block for a band like Lucero—which has sculpted and defined its own sound after what seems like

October 4, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Whitney Rose’s voice sounds like it’s coming out of a time machine in RCA’s Studio B in Nashville, circa 1960.

October 3, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Michael Benjamin Lerner has reached a career point where other artists might start to settle into their carved-out sound. Instead

October 1, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Quick recap: Hell finally froze over, and someone convinced Louise Post and Nina Gordon to start talking and writing together

September 29, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

These are halcyon days, kiddos! While most of the world seems to be falling apart at the seams, ready to

September 27, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The target audience for Elitism For The People, Pere Ubu’s vinyl archival boxed set of studio and live work from

September 26, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

There are those who would contend that all of Glen Hansard’s musical accomplishments have been cut and tailored from the

September 24, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania