Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Radiation City’s “Synesthetica”

With two couples comprising a five-piece lineup, we can only imagine the verbal bottle rocket-chucking that Radiation City bassist Matt

February 28, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

If Richard Hawley was more psychedelic story-weaver than twilight troubadour, or if Robyn Hitchcock had been separated at birth from

February 27, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The sound plied by Laser—the ethereally jumpy trio fronted by Reverie Sound Revue and ex-Broken Social Scene vocalist Lisa Lobsinger—isn’t

February 26, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The proposed shift from orchestral indie chamber pop to synthy electropop spurred Ra Ra Riot cellist Alexandra Lawn’s departure well

February 24, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Last we heard from them, the members of Animal Collective had decamped to their childhood hometown of Baltimore for Centipede

February 22, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Oh sure, this is hardly a perfect record by normal-folk standards, but it is a perfect Half Japanese record. And

February 21, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

In those moments of reckless abandon and unabashed displays of appreciation, metalheads will headbang, air-guitar or air-drum along to the

February 20, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania