Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Lee Hazlewood’s “The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood,” “Lee Hazlewoodism: Its Cause And Cure” And “Something Special”

There’s something unearthly cool about a Lee Hazlewood record—the “Hillbilly Shakespeare” and his cosmic twang were audio dynamite when coupled

February 7, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Emma Pollock, formerly of Scottish band the Delgados, is nine years into an exemplary, underrated solo career. (Of course, the

February 7, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

U.K. indie rocker Pete Astor has a voice like Robyn Hitchcock’s, placed high and front in the mix, and he

February 6, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Lucinda Williams is on a roll: 2014’s double album Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone was a late-career highlight,

February 5, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

It’s easy to forget that Dr. Dog used to be a seriously weird band. Most of its recent existence has

February 3, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Engineer/producer Bobby Harlow has said that White Fang collectively and “in all sincerity” hoped Chunks would ultimately “sound like a

January 31, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

After noise-rap upstarts/notable flakes Death Grips disbanded again without warning last summer—leaving Nine Inch Nails without an opening act for

January 27, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania