Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Chemical Brothers “Born In The Echoes”

2015 seems like a good time to be the Chemical Brothers. Their familiar flavor of broad-minded psychedelic techno is worming

September 1, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Continental Drifters’ “Drifted: In The Beginning & Beyond”

The Continental Drifters were one of the great coulda-woulda-shoulda bands of the ’90s. They came with a pedigree that included

August 30, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Deaf Wish’s “Pain”

Hello? Yes, I’m standing alongside the Hume Highway outside Melbourne. We’re going to need an ambulance, stat. Send whatever driver

August 29, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Noah Gunderson’s “Carry The Ghost”

With his pointed folk sensibilities and his familial gospel thrust, this Olympia, Wash., singer/songwriter is always filled with good intentions

August 27, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Cocteau Twins’ “The Pink Opaque”

Cocteau Twins was three albums and seven EPs into its career before its first U.S. release, The Pink Opaque, arrived

August 25, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Membranes’ “Dark Matter/Dark Energy”

These Blackpool musical anarchists burst upon Thatcher’s ’80s like an angrier, punkier colleague of Gang Of Four or PiL. ’Twas

August 23, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Miguel’s “Wildheart”

On misfit’s miscellany “what’s normal anyway,” Miguel Pimentel touchingly enumerates his internal contradictions: “too opinionated for the pacifists,” “too far

August 22, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania