Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Wheelhouse’s “House And Home”

House And Home signals the return of Wheelhouse—an improvising ensemble comprising saxophonist Dave Rempis, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz and bassist Nate

July 28, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: C Joynes & Mike Gangloff’s “Tom Winter, Tom Spring”

Some combinations are so natural that, in retrospect, you have to ask, “What took them so long to get together?”

July 21, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: We Contain Multitudes’ “Minako”

Aging punks, take note: Those veterans of post-hardcore reference point Bitch Magnet, guitarist Jon Fine and drummer Orestes Morfin, have

July 14, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Colin Andrew Sheffield’s “Serenade”

Some musicians need just the right instruments to create. Colin Andrew Sheffield is not picky that way. If you happen

July 11, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Derek Monypeny / Kevin Corcoran’s “Abacomancy”

Seeing, says a cliché from another century, is believing. If you saw Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran perform, you’d know

July 7, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Graden / Agnas / Landin / Bromander’s “Words Were Coming Out Our Ears”

Titles are often clues to an artist’s intentions, but Words Were Coming Out Our Ears may be more of a

June 20, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch’s “The Day The Angels Cried”

Trust a man whose ideal compositional form is the palindrome to reckon with this axiom: Everything comes back to where

June 6, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania