Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Guided By Voices’ “Welshpool Frillies”

After penning a review of 2018’s Space Gun—and compiling a well-received (sarcasm) ranking of Guided By Voices’ 25 LPs up

“Extinction is the rule,” Carl Sagan once wrote. “Survival is the exception.” Most of the time, that seems like a

The moment when it seems like you have nothing to lose can be a good time to strike a deal.

Jim O’Rourke’s passion for film has informed his music from the start. Cinematic notions of pacing and structure influence his

There’s a story that when Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton were on set making Batman, the former advised the latter

If Rhys Chatham hadn’t already done something with the name, Black Duck really should have been named Guitar Trio. Some

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Inside the first minute of “The Parasite,” which kicks of the digital and CD (but not LP) editions of The