Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The title Ghosted is a bit of a red herring. It suggests absence, but the only time no one showed

Count on Keiji Haino to turn the task of naming an album into an act of myth-making that would cause

We live in a time of plague, war and upheaval. If Jozef Van Wissem was in a talking mood, he

Pity whoever has to award the title Hardest Working Person In Show Business. How could you narrow it down to

Vector 23, the seventh LP from multi-city rockers Joseph Airport, is the song cycle about infamous airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper

In/Out/In is not a “new” Sonic Youth archival release. Everything on it has been released before. Two tracks were on

Forty-one years ago, Roy Montgomery and his colleagues in the Pin Group helped launch a specular run of independently made,

The Incredible String Band’s truckload of instruments and Yes’s multi-necked guitars did each band’s appeal no harm; novelty begets intrigue

One possible upside of being a solo performer in these times is that you’re equipped to carry on in isolation.

The Silt Trio’s name clues you in to its relationship with history. The group churns layers of accumulated knowledge, mixing

For devoted, longtime fans of Pat Fish (a.k.a. the Jazz Butcher), The Highest In The Land could be a difficult

When people quip, “There must be a German word for that,” they’re asking for a multi-syllabic tongue-twister that’ll do the

Compared to the late 2000s and early 2010s, indie-rock album cycles have felt more like meeting up with old high-school

You can’t get around dealing with time when, like Jake Xerxes Fussell, you’re a second-generation folklorist. How much do you