Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Flo Morrissey’s “Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful”
No way is Flo Morrissey only 20 years old. Her voice is at least two decades older than that, the

Essential New Music: Sly & The Family Stone’s “Live At The Fillmore East October 4th & 5th 1968”
The double-vinyl version of this unreleased live set (curated by “Captain” Kirk Douglas of the Roots) is cute, but it’s

Essential New Music: No Joy’s “More Faithful”
No Joy was more or less a shoegaze revivalist when it got started, and so far, the band’s progression from

Essential New Music: Refused’s “Freedom”
Seventeen years after recording its classic The Shape Of Punk To Come, Refused is back and as vital as ever.

Essential New Music: Thee Oh Sees’ “Mutilator Defeated At Last”
I have no doubt that John Dwyer and the occasionally rotating crew of musicians he calls Thee Oh Sees are

Essential New Music: Ryan Adams’ “Live At Carnegie Hall”
According to William Blake, “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom … you never know what is

Essential New Music: Kinski’s “7 (Or 8)”
Continuing their film-buff aesthetic (band moniker plus the director their side project Herzog is named for—look it up if necessary)

Essential New Music: Jim O’Rourke’s “Simple Songs”
It’s not as if Jim O’Rourke made easily digestible vocal records when he was part of the indie-avant pop milieu