Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

An earlier review in these pages acknowledged that Buck Curran is steeped in guitar lore. Sometimes that manifests in pursuing

Modular synthesizers aren’t just instruments. They can be a way of life, with practitioners getting deeper into the circuits, erecting

Group Inerane was part of a wave of bands that reset the defaults for northwest African guitar music a couple

Originally released in 2004, The Well Of Memory faces a sterner test than most reissued albums by dint of nomenclature

The latest volume in Bulbous Monocle’s Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 reissue campaign vaults over the Matador years back to

Thirteen years separate The Collapse Of Everything from its predecessor, Survival & Resistance. The gap seems particularly notable since Adrian

Hyperboreal Trio came by its name honestly. Danish alto saxophonist Signe Emmeluth and Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten have both

Tight And Loose is an artifact of a time before San Francisco became a bedroom community for the tech empires.

House And Home signals the return of Wheelhouse—an improvising ensemble comprising saxophonist Dave Rempis, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz and bassist Nate

Some combinations are so natural that, in retrospect, you have to ask, “What took them so long to get together?”

Aging punks, take note: Those veterans of post-hardcore reference point Bitch Magnet, guitarist Jon Fine and drummer Orestes Morfin, have