Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

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

On Living Theatre, their second album as Olden Yolk, Shane Butler and Caity Shaffer double down on the micro-focused methodology

Matthew Shipp is an obliging sort of guy. After every second or third album, he questions the point of making

Sometimes culture comes from the top down; when the Beatles, Steven Spielberg or Beyoncé have had something to say, people

Jessica Pratt has a thing for irreducible essences. Quiet Signs, her third LP, barely qualifies as a long player since

People get up to all sorts of dire shit in the desert. Desert Storm, the current war in Yemen, the

Before you accuse Sunwatchers of pulling any illegal moves, take a look at the Scott Lenhardt illustration that wraps around

The visibility afforded guitarist Bill MacKay by his recent run as Ryley Walker’s right-hand man might create the mistaken impression

Generally, revolutions are decisive acts of will, but not the one that Elena Setién has in mind. While the songs