Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: David Bazan’s “Blanco”

Since shelving Pedro The Lion a decade ago and then loudly renouncing Christian doctrine on 2009’s solo Curse Your Branches,

August 14, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Some records just show up at the right time. Almost precisely four years after her angsty alterna-popper Anxiety, Pip Brown’s third

August 14, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

This pairing is long overdue. Christian Fennesz and Jim O’Rourke have been tourmates and co-participants in the laptop collage trio

August 13, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Ambient music is less about memorable hooks than standout moments, and few practitioners in the ambient/experimental game have produced more

August 13, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

There are two distinct to this Brooklyn-based band’s fifth album, with a dividing line drawn by “We Need A Word”— where

August 11, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Metaphorically speaking, septuagenarian rocker Neil Young is his own grandpa. For the last half-century, Young has made music that sounds

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania