Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: White Heaven’s “Strange Bedfellow”

Strange Bedfellow is the second album by White Heaven, a band that was active in Tokyo from 1985 to 1997.

February 17, 2023 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Live long enough and you’re bound to build some confidence in what you know. But if you live that long,

February 10, 2023 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania