Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Like its immediate predecessors, 2013’s Lady From Shanghai and 2014’s Carnival Of Souls, Pere Ubu’s newest skates the line between

Much has been made of the British artist known to his family as Archy Marshall in the years between his

L.A.’s Ariel Rosenberg gives great, ur-gauche pastiche; he remains a pop perfectionist and illusionist. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson reintroduces the

Considered as the Replacements’ only professionally recorded full-length concert, For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986 would be noteworthy. Here’s the

While prog and dub are rarely discussed together, this album makes a pretty strong case for bridging the two aesthetics

Jon Langford releases albums at a feverish pace, whether under his own name or with one of his myriad bands,

It’s not an exaggeration to suggest that Morrissey + Marr ranks right up there with Lennon/McCartney, the Glimmer Twins and

Considering I’m writing this on the 37th anniversary of John Lennon’s death without realizing that it was the assassination’s destiny

The irreproachably hip, fiendishly virtuosic Cécile McLorin Salvant continues her one-woman revitalization of the once-grand vocal-jazz tradition with another fine

1973 American punk rock was either the Rolling Stones in hell (Iggy And The Stooges circa Raw Power) or in

The phenomenal news is that the first LCD Soundsystem album in seven years sounds tremendously, magnificently like an LCD Soundsystem

Cults’ 2011 debut was a bracing cross-pollination of early-’60s girl-group sass and arty New York cool. The duo of Madeline