Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Joe Chambers / Kevin Diehl / Chad Taylor’s “Onilu”

In a time when it’s hard to know just who and what to believe, Onilu shows how easy it can

Sand City, the Gunn-Truscinski Duo’s debut album, was the culmination of a half-dozen years of occasionally public and frequently private

February 28, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Drip Edges singer/songwriter/guitarist Jeremy Scott—formerly of the Reigning Sound—is an avowed Bob Mould disciple, and that’s clearly evident as the

February 27, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

With Triecade, Steven R. Smith marks 30 years of mostly solitary music-making. Formerly a member of Thuja and Mirza (both

February 21, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Some might say that List Of Demands sounds like it was ripped from today’s headlines, but given the way things

February 14, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

In the liner notes to Öppet Två, Swedish reeds player Mats Gustafsson describes a moment in 1982 that gave focus

February 7, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

“I am not guilty of insanity/My brain was taken in a brain robbery.” So sings one of the pseudonymous members

January 31, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania