Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Half Japanese’s “Volume 3, 1990-1995”

Rock ‘n’ roll doesn’t get any better than this. Period. These three albums—1990’s We Are They Who Ache With Amorous

Even when a mere year separated the release of Low Cut Connie’s second album from its first, the energetic combo

Kristian Matsson is a musician who can hold a theater of thousands in rapt attention with just an acoustic guitar

Since 1994, the Danish indie rockers in Mew have found interesting and engaging ways to bend progressive rock into exotic

In an about-face to the insular world of American noise music, which he’d been the preeminent voice of for nearly

“So much that I can’t say to you,” Mark Kozelek croons on “Drop,” a raw, ethereal epic toward the end

With Foil Deer, Speedy Ortiz fully owns its style, quirks and neuroses on a level that would have been unimaginable

Recent chatter around the water cooler concerns the strides Tom Jenkinson has taken toward injecting harsher, more aggressive elements into

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania