Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Robert Forster’s “The Candle And The Flame”

Circumstances shape how art is made and how it’s perceived. So it is with the circumstances surrounding The Candle And

February 3, 2023 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

In name and sound, Furling feels like a record that makes sense of the last few years. After all, one

January 27, 2023 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

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

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania