Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds (50th Anniversary Edition)”

Calling a record “important” is somewhat akin to being told to “eat your spinach.” Blecch. What about music that just

When you couple the chemistry and longtime friendship between guitarists/vocalists Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson (the pair’s roots go back

Absolute Loser is the first Fruit Bats record since 2011, which wouldn’t be such a big deal— Eric Johnson’s 2014

Though her career went supernova via the weird, wild, gloriously iconoclastic molecular restructuring of pop/rock on 1983’s landmark She’s So

It’s odd that, given his handful of high-profile collaborations, podcast theme compositions and fi lm work, Nick Thorburn’s main band,

This Leeds post-punk quartet grabbed me by the lapels almost immediately a few years ago with the release of its

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania