Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Jim O’Rourke’s “Simple Songs”

It’s not as if Jim O’Rourke made easily digestible vocal records when he was part of the indie-avant pop milieu

The pleasantly cacophonous joy of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel is the unpredictable blessing and occasional curse of Mates Of

Evan Caminiti’s main gig is Barn Owl, a duo in which he helps concoct desert-scorched drones that are pierced by

With the promise of several new Major Lazer albums immediately following this, Peace Is The Mission is an opening salvo

The Welsh quintet’s second release goes down as easy as a mixtape on a ’90s spring day. Clocking in at

Better known to his mother as Jamie Smith, Jamie xx is essentially the one-man backline for London beat alchemists and

In Our Heads, Hot Chip’s last album, was a masterpiece: an ecstatic, heart-surging testament to the intertwined power of music,

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania