Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Lake Street Dive’s “Side Pony”

Side Pony goes down very, very smooth. How smooth? Like an earworm—or maybe an earthworm—making its cool, moist way through

A trio made up of seasoned veterans within their respective musical fields, Nevermen is TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe,

Santi “Gold” White was my discovery of 2008, a new-wave fever dream of synth-happy pop and celebrity DJ support (in

You wouldn’t expect a band with that name to make this kind of expansive, hook-savvy music, but here we are.

February 28, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

With two couples comprising a five-piece lineup, we can only imagine the verbal bottle rocket-chucking that Radiation City bassist Matt

February 28, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

If Richard Hawley was more psychedelic story-weaver than twilight troubadour, or if Robyn Hitchcock had been separated at birth from

February 27, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania