Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Killing Joke’s “Pylon”

We’re long past worrying whether a new Killing Joke album is going to compromise the integrity of the band’s post-2002

January 17, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The inaugural releases by AUM Fidelity were by the David S. Ware Quartet and William Parker’s Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra.

January 16, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

On one hand, A Sunny Day In Glasgow sounds like an elemental mash-up of Cocteau Twins, Sparks, the New Pornographers,

January 15, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Jungle Brothers may have come straight out the jungles of Harlem with what would ultimately become the template for the

January 13, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The tech industry's new-money piranhas haven’t gnawed all the weirdness out of San Francisco just yet. Consider Kelley Stoltz, whose

January 11, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Seriously? Why not? C'mon, honestly. What’s so terrible about tossing an egg out a third-story window, spilling ink on the

January 10, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC