Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Don Cherry’s “Cherry Jam”

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

Loren Connors has dueted with many guitarists over the years, but he always presents them with the same challenge. The

February 5, 2021 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

How much does an album really matter? That all depends on who you ask. If you’re Neil Young, you have

January 28, 2021 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Photo by David Zukauskas This album may be a first encounter, but it’s by no means a first impression. Guitarist

January 22, 2021 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

When you need to respond quickly, you might let your fingers do the walking. Wendy Eisenberg has the sort of

January 4, 2021 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania