Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Matchess’ “Sacracorpa”

Whitney Johnson is the sort of side person who makes any project sound better. For confirmation, check out her strings

August 10, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Whichever celestial body you apply it to, the morning star is that bright light you see in the sky just

Between his day job at a curator for the Alan Lomax Archive and his gigs accompanying Joan Shelley, Jim Elkington

The problem with drone rock is that sometimes a band bears down on the “drone” and forgets about the “rock.”

The binary name of this duo promises a focus on the essentials, and The Switch delivers. Singer/guitarist Kim Gordon and

Jonathan Wilson is very good at a lot of things. Emerging as an auspicious talent in an already crowded Southern

Pulse/Quartet’s one-sheet is bogged down in minutiae and erudite discussion of the theory and instrumentation constituting the halves of minimalist

Oh, what whimsy J.D. Wilkes can pack into a svelte 10-song solo debut. The Legendary Shack Shaker has outdone himself

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania