Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Gun Outfit’s “Out Of Range”
Call it cocaine country or “western expanse music,” but that lonesome quiver traded by Carrie Keith and Dylan Sharp is

Essential New Music: Laura Baird’s “I Wish I Were A Sparrow”
Music comes naturally to Laura Baird’s clan. She’s half of a sister act with Meg Baird, whom you probably know

Essential New Music: Lost Horizons’ “Ojalá”
Two decades after bootstrapping the insanely successful Bella Union label in the wake of Cocteau Twins’ 1997 split, that band’s

Essential New Music: Electric Wizard’s “Wizard Bloody Wizard”
Since the release of Dopethrone in 2000, Electric Wizard has remained the ruler of an overpopulated sub-genre of metal without

Essential New Music: Blake Hazard’s “Possibilities At Sea”
When last heard from, Blake Hazard was, in her own words, “adrift.” 2013’s The Eleanor Islands was a breakup album,

Essential New Music: Brooklyn Raga Massive’s “Terry Riley In C”
For years, sitarist Neel Murgai dreamed of recording Terry Riley’s In C. And why not? Besides being an avant-classical composer

Essential New Music: Nick Garrie’s “The Moon And The Village”
In 1969 Nick Garrie recorded The Nightmare Of J.B. Stanisla, a lush folk/pop album. When collectors discovered it in the

Essential New Music: John Davis & The Cicadas’ “El Pulpo”
John Davis stopped playing music in public for a while after quitting the Folk Implosion in 2000. He was still