Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Robert Pollard (high)kicks off his 101st full-length record—Guided By Voices’ 32-track, double-LP monolith August By Cake, released earlier this year,

There’s a portion of music about 10 minutes into the new Mineral Girls album that kind of locks in the

While Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer haven’t exactly been strangers—they’ve shared stages and haunted each other’s songs—the sisters’ solo careers

Do a web search for The Boffomundo Show and you’ll find yourself tempted by a rabbit hole deep enough to

With the cheerful absurdity of Here Come The Warm Jets and the harrowing, avant-glam pop of Taking Tiger Mountain (By

With 2011’s Kiss Each Other Clean and 2013’s Ghost On Ghost, Iron & Wine albums seemed to be on an

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood doesn’t get enough respect. Vocalist/bandleader Robinson is still distancing himself from the legacy of his old

Like the Feelies, the Telescopes have a doughnut for a timeline. They started out in 1987 as a promising psych-pop

Broken Social Scene albums have never been about raising the profiles of the group’s dozen-plus members. Though guitarist Kevin Drew

It’s no slight to claim that Painted Ruins contains strong trace elements of Radiohead circa OK Computer. Thom Yorke and

New Facts Emerge is the 32nd studio album by the Fall—an undeniable miracle, all things considered. And a micro-miracle inside

Good songs may be hard to write, but sometimes the music just flows. It often seems like this is the