Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Battles’ “La Di Da Di”

When Animal Collective gets the “post-Y2K Phish” tag, it’s more in reference to the group’s position as the house band

October 10, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Why Better Nature is billed as Silversun Pickups’ “most human music thus far” is something of a mystery. The slinky, dreamy Los

October 7, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The biggest stumbling block for a band like Lucero—which has sculpted and defined its own sound after what seems like

October 4, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Whitney Rose’s voice sounds like it’s coming out of a time machine in RCA’s Studio B in Nashville, circa 1960.

October 3, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Michael Benjamin Lerner has reached a career point where other artists might start to settle into their carved-out sound. Instead

October 1, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Quick recap: Hell finally froze over, and someone convinced Louise Post and Nina Gordon to start talking and writing together

September 29, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

These are halcyon days, kiddos! While most of the world seems to be falling apart at the seams, ready to

September 27, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC