Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Bert Jansch’s “Live At The 12 Bar”

The late Bert Jansch was a master of the acoustic guitar, a Scotsman renowned within the British folk scene of

Take Bardo Pond’s side-long eff ort, “Screens For A Catch (Fur Bearing Eyes).” The Philadelphia-based psychedelic quintet’s ability to fill

Over the course of close to 50 albums, Richard Thompson has set the bar extraordinarily high, so high that even

Four vinyl reissues from the Fall cast a critical eye on Thatcher-era England They were named for a Camus novel;

Combining punk and bluegrass seems like a harebrained idea, but maybe not so far-fetched for a band that started performing

What a voice Sasha Siem has, and what a sense of melody. That’s easy to miss the first few times

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

When you christen yourself after a revered Leonard Cohen classic, much is expected, and the Old Ceremony has met and