Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Matthew Shipp has often applied the word “cosmic” to his music. While there’s nothing at all spacey about his bold

Joseph Allred is on a roll. In the last year, he has released a CD-R, two tapes and three LPs

In the Old Testament, Absalom is a guy so good looking, popular and sure of himself that he gets away

Enhet För Fri Musik ("Unit For Free Music") is a quintet whose music will defy you to accurately date its

Maybe someone told you about a band you really need to hear. They’re three lifer musicians, and they play instrumentals

And you thought the cops were selling all that confiscated greenery. Nope, they’ve been holed up behind locked doors, dampened

In Ken Vandermark’s music, method matters. While the Chicago-based saxophone and clarinet player never performs like it doesn’t matter, each

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA The last Swans album, 2016's The Glowing Man, looked for a moment like it might really be

Rock 'n' roll is pretty easy to find around the globe, but it hasn’t been the global lingua franca for

Photo by Peter Gannushkin Whether you’re playing music or fighting for freedom, you have to be ready to go the

An "apsis" is the nearest or farthest point of a planet’s orbit. It’s a handy metaphor for the dynamics of

When Matt Valentine and Pat “P.G. Six” Gubler played together in Tower Recordings, they often seemed to represent opposing methodologies

“Hakawati,” the song that kicks of City Of Djinn’s self-titled second album, comes at you like a cavalry attack over

David Kilgour’s first album in five years confirms his enduring strengths as a singer, guitarist and composer, but it also