Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Gunslingers’ “Supreme Asphalt Doser”

Calling your band Gunslingers is just asking for a world of trouble. Failure to deliver the badassery it implies practically

January 20, 2023 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

In Mike Gangloff’s galaxy, solo albums are like comets; they don’t come around very often, but when they do, they

January 9, 2023 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

If you try to drill down into the specifics of that frequently voiced complaint that music doesn’t sound like it

January 2, 2023 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

An Imaginal Abydos is the first album by Primordial Undermind in more than a decade. You might suppose that the

December 23, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Ibises is a trio of Chicago-based musicians who were not even a band yet when they played the gig that

December 16, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Across a couple of decades, Bill Nace has filled his dance card with a who’s-who of noise liberators. If you

December 2, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Musician, DJ, show organizer—Shelley Salant is the kind of person who makes scenes keep on happening. The southeastern Michigan music

November 18, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC