Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Como, Miss.’s R.L. Boyce delivers in droves with “the most important, honest to God Hill Country blues record made since

To not hear King Khan belting witty lyrics over perfectly trashy R&B, either with nine-piece gang the Shrines or laying

Cosmic Troubles, the 2015 debut from this Edmonton two-piece, charmed and arrested with its airy, ’60s-indebted jangle, casually perfect guitar

For a prolific musical project with nearly as many compilations as official releases, it makes sense that the Jazz Butcher—a.k.a.

Attempting to pin down the last decade of peerless music of ineffable inspiration and sound that has arrived behind the

Although it fit in with woozy, beloved contemporaries such as Grandaddy’s Sumday and Sparklehorse’s It’s A Wonderful Life, Flotation Toy

There are bands with a bit of history, and then there’s Antietam. Tara Key and Tim Harris founded the band

When it was released on the ESP-Disk label in 1967 (on the same day as Sgt. Pepper no less), One

Lucinda Williams has recently done some of the greatest work of her long career. Both 2016’s The Ghosts Of Highway

Considering the results of the last presidential election and its attendant fallout, the times are ripe for a revitalization of

If 2014’s Morning Phase was surprising (and winning in every way) for its soft, supple melancholy—a distant cousin to Beck’s

Neither as bracingly rude as the Sex Pistols nor as persuasively political as the Clash, the Jam didn’t translate Stateside