Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Through The Sparks’ “Transindifference”

Birmingham, Ala., indie psych/folk mainstays Through The Sparks are anything but predictable. Tapping a vein equal parts New Order to

To amass 20 years in one cauldron or genre in this fickle mess of a music business deserves high praise

“Untitled Melancholy Song"—that could be the working title of two thirds of the songs in Elliott Smith’s catalog. On Heaven

Find me a person who hasn’t somehow experienced the bubblegum-flavored majesty of the Cars and I’ll show you someone who’s

It’s a story repeated throughout the ages: Band records bitchin’ debut—a collection of the best parts of its creative existence—and

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Boston’s Quilt is not blessed by age or geography to possess a legitimate claim on the ability to channel ’60s