Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Lily & Madeleine’s “Keep It Together”

Teenage sisters Lily (then 15) and Madeleine (then 18) didn’t expect much when they put up a homemade video of

At this point, Bob Mould has released more studio albums under his own name than with Hüsker Dü and Sugar combined,

Cincinnati quintet Wussy loves its drones—its Velvets, Feelies and Sonic Youths—as much as its Beatles, Stones and Who. Nevertheless, it’s

Hox is Edvard Graham Lewis of Wire and Swedish electronic musician Andreas Karperyd. They aren’t exactly strangers, having made several

Ah, Norway! Where the synthesizers never set and the northern lights twinkle like a great celestial arpeggiator. Thomas Moen Hermansen,

Birmingham, Ala., indie psych/folk mainstays Through The Sparks are anything but predictable. Tapping a vein equal parts New Order to

To amass 20 years in one cauldron or genre in this fickle mess of a music business deserves high praise

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania