Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Robert Forster’s “Songs To Play”

The most dangerous card shark is the one who lets you think you’ve seen his hand. Songs To Play, Robert

September 8, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

These garage-dwelling skate punks were so gloriously unhinged on their debut, one couldn’t help but fear that they would rein

September 6, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

In the weeks before release, Dan Auerbach started describing Yours, Dreamily as “really experimental” and “extra weird.” Then the Black

September 5, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The Sword delivers the gawd-damn goods every single time. We’re simple folk and we just want some heady, heavy, nerdy

September 2, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

2015 seems like a good time to be the Chemical Brothers. Their familiar flavor of broad-minded psychedelic techno is worming

September 1, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The Continental Drifters were one of the great coulda-woulda-shoulda bands of the ’90s. They came with a pedigree that included

August 30, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Hello? Yes, I’m standing alongside the Hume Highway outside Melbourne. We’re going to need an ambulance, stat. Send whatever driver

August 29, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

With his pointed folk sensibilities and his familial gospel thrust, this Olympia, Wash., singer/songwriter is always filled with good intentions

August 27, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania