Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Animal Collective’s “Time Skiffs”

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

February 4, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

January 26, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Savage Republic first convened in the early 1980s. Original guitarist Bruce Licher and a shifting array of musicians shook up

January 20, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

A title like New Spells immediately raises the question, what happened to the old ones? Ava Mendoza’s latest solo album

January 14, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

When Arnold de Boer isn’t singing and playing guitar with the Ex, he records under the name Zea. Untethered from

January 5, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The pandemic has precipitated plenty of shut-in recording projects, mostly involving some degree of solitary activity. Poor Boy On The

December 29, 2021 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Depending on your perspective, Just Like Jim is a tale of comfort or caution. Your prized possessions may not only

December 21, 2021 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC