Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: SAVAK’s “Human Error/Human Delight”

Part of the deal for rock ‘n’ roll fans is to be interested in, and often obsessed with, band minutiae.

Given a cursory look, the Trypes might’ve seemed like a just another hobby band. First formed in 1982, they were

There’s no mistaking jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler’s influence. The breadth and power of his tone on the tenor are unparalleled,

In 2005, with Guided By Voices freshly defunct, a group of Chicago musicians began playing shows as the Textbook Committee,

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

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

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