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Essential New Music: Graham Parker & The Rumour’s “Mystery Glue”

This is Graham Parker’s second album with the reunited backup band that gave his early albums so much fire and
Helio

Essential New Music: The Helio Sequence’s “The Helio Sequence”

The Helio Sequence has worked on a fairly panoramic screen over the past decade and a half, projecting its evocative
BeautyPill

Essential New Music: Beauty Pill’s “Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are”

On its first album in 10 years, D.C. band Beauty Pill takes a sledgehammer to boundaries and orthodoxies. Prior releases

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HalfJapanese

Essential New Music: Half Japanese’s “Volume 3, 1990-1995”

Rock ‘n’ roll doesn’t get any better than this. Period. These three albums—1990’s We Are They Who Ache With Amorous

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LowCutConnie

Essential New Music: Low Cut Connie’s “Hi Honey”

Even when a mere year separated the release of Low Cut Connie’s second album from its first, the energetic combo

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Essential New Music: The Tallest Man On Earth "Dark Bird Is Home"

Essential New Music: The Tallest Man On Earth “Dark Bird Is Home”

Kristian Matsson is a musician who can hold a theater of thousands in rapt attention with just an acoustic guitar
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Mew

Essential New Music: Mew’s “+ -“

Since 1994, the Danish indie rockers in Mew have found interesting and engaging ways to bend progressive rock into exotic

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R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania