Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Isasa’s “Insilio”

The roads that lead to the style known as American Primitive guitar tend to wind, and the trips that practitioners

Problems, the first full-length from the Get Up Kids in more than eight years, pulls an excellent trick. Like the

Sparrow Steeple beckons. Follow that crooked finger and you’ll soon find yourself tumbling down the sort of rabbit hole that

On Living Theatre, their second album as Olden Yolk, Shane Butler and Caity Shaffer double down on the micro-focused methodology

Matthew Shipp is an obliging sort of guy. After every second or third album, he questions the point of making

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Sometimes culture comes from the top down; when the Beatles, Steven Spielberg or Beyoncé have had something to say, people

Jessica Pratt has a thing for irreducible essences. Quiet Signs, her third LP, barely qualifies as a long player since