Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Hot Chip’s “Why Make Sense?”

In Our Heads, Hot Chip’s last album, was a masterpiece: an ecstatic, heart-surging testament to the intertwined power of music,

Drawn from Leonard Cohen’s Herculean world tour of 2012-’13, this rather humbly titled live disc feels like just that—a postcard,

Franz Ferdinand and Sparks want to pump you up The idea of Franz Ferdinand and Sparks together in the studio is

One of Sharon Van Etten’s talents has always been her ability to make something seem bigger than it actually is.

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

This Brooklyn band refers to itself as “a country band travelling through space” or, when feeling particularly pretentious, “Johnny Cash

Returning after a seven-year hiatus from music, Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter Cynthia G. Mason has lost nary a step. Her new five-song