Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Joy Formidable’s “Hitch”

It’s been nearly a decade since the Joy Formidable stormed out of Wales with an elephant gun full of shoegaze

James Szalapski’s Heartworn Highways, shot in 1974/1975 but released in 1981, is a jaw-dropping moment of prescient timing—a raw document

Boris and Merzbow are such natural complements, it’s surprising they haven’t collaborated more. As on 2007’s live platter Rock Dream,

Though they managed to distill and even popularize post-rock’s driving intensity and dramatic dynamics for millions of households with their

The debut from the Last Shadow Puppets (Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner and best mate Miles Kane), 2008’s The Age Of

In the annals of lost rock albums, none could be as unassumingly murky as Mike And The Melvins’ 1999 sessions.

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania