Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Albert Ayler’s “Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Foundation Maeght Recordings”

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

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

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

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