Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

About a month ago, producer/author Joe Boyd came to Chicago to promote his new book. And The Roots Of Rhythm

If you die with unfinished business, there’s a good chance that means you were living right up to the end.

In 1982, the Ex named its second album History Is What’s Happening. Four and a half decades since the band’s

Dylan Golden Aycock is generally identified as a guitarist, and with good reason. He’s an Imaginational Anthem alumnus, and while

Aficionados of dreamy, jangly guitar, particularly if it reminds old heads of the “college rock” of yore—like early R.E.M. or

Bone Bells is the third recording by Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and American guitarist Mary Halvorson. By dint of a

Nearly 20 years separate In Space from Edith Frost’s last LP, It’s A Game. Where’s she been? Living life, moving

In a time when it’s hard to know just who and what to believe, Onilu shows how easy it can

Sand City, the Gunn-Truscinski Duo’s debut album, was the culmination of a half-dozen years of occasionally public and frequently private

Drip Edges singer/songwriter/guitarist Jeremy Scott—formerly of the Reigning Sound—is an avowed Bob Mould disciple, and that’s clearly evident as the

With Triecade, Steven R. Smith marks 30 years of mostly solitary music-making. Formerly a member of Thuja and Mirza (both

Some might say that List Of Demands sounds like it was ripped from today’s headlines, but given the way things

In the liner notes to Öppet Två, Swedish reeds player Mats Gustafsson describes a moment in 1982 that gave focus

“I am not guilty of insanity/My brain was taken in a brain robbery.” So sings one of the pseudonymous members