Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Nightshift’s “Zöe”

One moment, Zöe sounds like it’s beaming in from a time when you could still buy rotary phones in stores.

The second law of thermodynamics is invaluable when you want to understand why things keep coming apart. But if you

Future Times was born of a dire present. Plankton Wat is the solo project of guitarist Dewey Mahood (ex-Eternal Tapestry, Galaxy

Not many people have yearned less for success than Fred Neil. Plenty of beatniks, folkies and hippies from the 1950s

The COVID virus may have owned 2020, but 2021 is the year of Don Cherry. The Oklahoma-born trumpeter, whose curious

February 26, 2021 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

People make records for a lot of reasons, and who are we to judge? Music lovers, that’s who we are,

February 17, 2021 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Forty years ago, Flying Nun Records released its first single. The Pin Group’s “Coat” imagined a world of sound and

February 10, 2021 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania