Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet’s “HausLive 4”
Bill Orcutt’s Music For Four Guitars is a bit like a favorite dish. It tasted great the first time, delicious

Essential New Music: Màiri Morrison & Alasdair Roberts With Pete Johnston & Friends’ “Remembered In Exile: Songs And Ballads From Nova Scotia”
The last time that MAGNET checked in on Scottish singer/guitarist Alasdair Roberts, surveying the stylistic zigzags of his last few

Essential New Music: Various Artists “Tsapiky! Modern Music From Southwest Madagascar”
About a month ago, producer/author Joe Boyd came to Chicago to promote his new book. And The Roots Of Rhythm

Essential New Music: Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love’s “Butterfly Mushroom”
If you die with unfinished business, there’s a good chance that means you were living right up to the end.

Essential New Music: The Ex’s “If Your Mirror Breaks”
In 1982, the Ex named its second album History Is What’s Happening. Four and a half decades since the band’s

Essential New Music: Dylan Golden Aycock’s “No New Summers”
Dylan Golden Aycock is generally identified as a guitarist, and with good reason. He’s an Imaginational Anthem alumnus, and while

Essential New Music: Hamlet’s “Light Under Repair”
Aficionados of dreamy, jangly guitar, particularly if it reminds old heads of the “college rock” of yore—like early R.E.M. or

Essential New Music: Sylvie Courvoisier / Mary Halvorson’s “Bone Bells”
Bone Bells is the third recording by Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and American guitarist Mary Halvorson. By dint of a