Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Hans Reichel’s “Bonobo Beach”

Hans Reichel was a one-of-a-kind guy. Born in Germany four years after the end of World War II, he showed

August 26, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

“The past isn’t dead. It’s not even past.” When William Faulkner wrote those words in Requiem For A Nun, he

August 12, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The last couple years have been undeniably awful for a lot of people, but Joan Shelley’s experience was more complicated.

While musicians moved in and out of the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet throughout its existence, the ensemble’s 14-year run can

The compulsion to create is often linked to self-expression. But as anyone who has spent some time listening to classic

The impatient may read the name of this LP and ask, “Well, which will it be?” How does one reconcile

Songs From A Stolen Guitar is a series of reckonings. Across 10 songs, Simon Joyner sings about about things that

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania