Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Finn’s Motel’s “Fireworks Or Lightning”

We've championed Finn's Motel for years, and they've rewarded us—and you—with the outstanding new Fireworks Or Lightning (Victory Over Gravity).

If you don’t immediately recognize the name Jeffrey Alexander, you might still have crossed his path. Currently based in Philadelphia

“Pretty soon, the whole world is gonna go crazy.” Judging from the sample’s sound quality, those words, which usher in

Perhaps the most common running line about Godspeed You! Black Emperor is that its mighty, caustic brand of rock music

The New Bums aren’t that new. Singer/guitarists Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance, Comets On

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

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania