Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Spoon Everything Hits At Once: The Best Of Spoon (Matador)This compiles a dozen tracks spanning seven Spoon LPs and a

Thom Yorke ANIMA (XL)This nine-track LP was written by the Radiohead frontman, produced by Nigel Godrich and features several tracks

If you need some music made to order, guitarist Chris Brokaw is your man. He can play all the tricky

House And Land’s second album defies any notions of a sophomore jinx by topping its already impressive predecessor. The North

If humanity survives to reflect upon the current times, the middle of the 20th century will likely be seen as

Plenty of folks have latched onto the idea of making music that creates a movie in your mind, but few

Jake Xerxes Fussell has a storyteller’s voice. It's big and clear, and you won’t miss a word he sings. Warm

Elkhorn is a relatively young band, but it has a lot of history behind it. Electric guitarist Drew Gardner and

The members of Sonic Youth accomplished two things on July 4, 2008. First, they coaxed the Feelies out of retirement

Past outings prove that C Joynes is a well-traveled guy. The guitarist’s previous recordings have reflected this. His picking is

More often than not, girly mags and rom-coms tell young folk that courtship (and breakups) must involve some sort of

The roads that lead to the style known as American Primitive guitar tend to wind, and the trips that practitioners

Problems, the first full-length from the Get Up Kids in more than eight years, pulls an excellent trick. Like the

Sparrow Steeple beckons. Follow that crooked finger and you’ll soon find yourself tumbling down the sort of rabbit hole that