Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Sharon Van Etten’s “I Don’t Want To Let You Down”

One of Sharon Van Etten’s talents has always been her ability to make something seem bigger than it actually is.

This Brooklyn band refers to itself as “a country band travelling through space” or, when feeling particularly pretentious, “Johnny Cash

Returning after a seven-year hiatus from music, Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter Cynthia G. Mason has lost nary a step. Her new five-song

It would seem that Austin transplants Heartless Bastards have evolved into a band of unique focus—a smart, purposeful ensemble boasting

She had one of the most haunting, most arresting voices in all of American musical history, as immediately recognizable as

This is Graham Parker’s second album with the reunited backup band that gave his early albums so much fire and

The Helio Sequence has worked on a fairly panoramic screen over the past decade and a half, projecting its evocative

On its first album in 10 years, D.C. band Beauty Pill takes a sledgehammer to boundaries and orthodoxies. Prior releases

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania