Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Various Artists “Tsapiky! Modern Music From Southwest Madagascar”

About a month ago, producer/author Joe Boyd came to Chicago to promote his new book. And The Roots Of Rhythm

If you die with unfinished business, there’s a good chance that means you were living right up to the end.

In 1982, the Ex named its second album History Is What’s Happening. Four and a half decades since the band’s

Dylan Golden Aycock is generally identified as a guitarist, and with good reason. He’s an Imaginational Anthem alumnus, and while

Aficionados of dreamy, jangly guitar, particularly if it reminds old heads of the “college rock” of yore—like early R.E.M. or

Bone Bells is the third recording by Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and American guitarist Mary Halvorson. By dint of a

Nearly 20 years separate In Space from Edith Frost’s last LP, It’s A Game. Where’s she been? Living life, moving

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania