Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Grant-Lee Phillips’ “Widdershins”
Grant-Lee Phillips has now been making solo records for far longer than he served as the celebrated frontman of ’90s-era

Jack White: Schoolhouse Rock
Boarding House Reach not only shows off Jack White’s master’s-level skills as a musician but also lyrics that will make

Essential New Music: Jack White’s “Boarding House Reach”
Of the many would-be millennial “rock ’n’ roll saviors” kicking around in the early aughts, Jack White has done the

Essential New Music: Mary Gauthier’s “Rifles & Rosary Beads”
Where have all the soldiers gone? American battles once pitted brother against brother and accentuated the gap between parents and

Essential New Music: Keiji Haino + SUMAC’s “American Dollar Bill—Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look At Face On”
It had to happen. Keiji Haino has played with folk musicians and Faust, Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet and Merzbow. Sooner

Essential New Music: Inara George’s “Dearest Everybody”
The title of Inara George’s fourth solo album encapsulates the paradox of the music she makes. It’s breezy and delicate

Moby: The Second Comings
Moby offers further proof that Morrissey was right: William Butler Yeats is on our side Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing

Essential New Music: Moby’s “Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt”
The huge success of 1999’s Play has afforded Moby permanent artistic license, allowing him to be maddeningly unpredictable, to leap