Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: CP Unit’s “One Foot On The Ground Smoking Mirror Shakedown”

Any tool can be used for either good or ill, but in music, virtuosity is especially double-edged. The ability to

Photo by Dawid Laskowski AC/DC has performed “Back In Black” many times, but Joe McPhee, who was born before any

There are plenty of reasons why the Ex has been characterized as a punk band. There’s the group's roots in

February 27, 2020 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Echo Mine constitutes a new partnership, a farewell and a reunion. It's the name for a dance choreographed and performed

February 20, 2020 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

One quality that Paal Nilssen-Love has sustained across decades of work in improvised music is transparency. No matter who he

February 14, 2020 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Is any topic better suited to being rendered in a non-native language than love? You want to make yourself clear,

January 28, 2020 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Oval maneuvers in elliptical fashion between experimental and pop music. At one extreme, there’s methodology: Markus Popp (since 1995, the

January 22, 2020 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania