Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Prurient’s “Frozen Niagara Falls”

In an about-face to the insular world of American noise music, which he’d been the preeminent voice of for nearly

“So much that I can’t say to you,” Mark Kozelek croons on “Drop,” a raw, ethereal epic toward the end

With Foil Deer, Speedy Ortiz fully owns its style, quirks and neuroses on a level that would have been unimaginable

Recent chatter around the water cooler concerns the strides Tom Jenkinson has taken toward injecting harsher, more aggressive elements into

For a band that titles its album No Control, Turbo Fruits really seem to have their shit together. We’re loath

Bill Fay’s second album since his comeback enlarges on themes, lyrical and musical, that have been part of his work

Roxy Music’s staggering canon gets the deluxe vinyl treatment The half-speed mastering and the lovely packaging of its original sleeves—these

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania