Category: 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

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

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

Matters of hierarchy often come to the fore when composers and classical ensembles represent themselves on an album cover. Who’s

Eli Winter is Chicagoan by choice, and you know what they say about the seriousness of converts. The guitarist moved

Bill Orcutt’s Music For Four Guitars is a bit like a favorite dish. It tasted great the first time, delicious

The last time that MAGNET checked in on Scottish singer/guitarist Alasdair Roberts, surveying the stylistic zigzags of his last few

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania