Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Sword’s “High Country”

The Sword delivers the gawd-damn goods every single time. We’re simple folk and we just want some heady, heavy, nerdy

September 2, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

2015 seems like a good time to be the Chemical Brothers. Their familiar flavor of broad-minded psychedelic techno is worming

September 1, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The Continental Drifters were one of the great coulda-woulda-shoulda bands of the ’90s. They came with a pedigree that included

August 30, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Hello? Yes, I’m standing alongside the Hume Highway outside Melbourne. We’re going to need an ambulance, stat. Send whatever driver

August 29, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

With his pointed folk sensibilities and his familial gospel thrust, this Olympia, Wash., singer/songwriter is always filled with good intentions

August 27, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Cocteau Twins was three albums and seven EPs into its career before its first U.S. release, The Pink Opaque, arrived

August 25, 2015 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania