Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Bob Dylan at the tail end of 2018 was a fascinating, irascible concept. Dylan at the circus selling his Heaven’s

To call an 11-to-17 disc dissection of Ray Davies’ flowery, lit-witty masterpiece “forensic” doesn’t quite say enough about how the

On his own and as half of Barn Owl, Jon Porras has tended to make instrumental music that's expansive and

Nearly 30 years (!?) after the ping-ponging pop-hop of Raw Like Sushi and its global hit, “Buffalo Stance,” Neneh Chery

Heather Leigh has been playing music on her own and with Charalambides, Tarpis Tula and Peter Brötzmann (among others) for

Just in time for your holidaze shopping, we bring you the best reissues and collections with which to stuff your

Philadelphia’s Restorations skipped 4996 LPs to get from 2014’s LP3 to LP5000. Listening to the new record, it’s easy to figure

Never mind the mythology that has grown up around garage rock. If you’re going to brew a high-octane mix of

Yowler is the solo project of Maryn Jones, who hails from MAGNET's hometown of Philly. Jones just released sophomore Yowler

Nathan Bowles never quite spells out the nature of his mistake, but it's clear that if you thought he was

Praise be to the Modern Harmonic for curating a sonic museum of the ethereal—at times otherworldly—sibling harmony, songwriting and unique

Hiljaisuus is the Finnish word for silence, and that’s one thing that you will not encounter across the two sides

There’s nothing quite like a good Sunday-morning record. Sunday is the day of existential dread, the day of anxiety over

Wherever the Necks find themselves, they’re all in. The Australian trio’s totally improvised concerts are direct responses to the room,