Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

It’s only appropriate. Some long-lost/for- gotten space-age recordings left behind by avant-garde jazz boffin Sun Ra are finally unearthed, and

Ecstatic Vision guitarist and founding principal Doug “Snake Sustaine” Sabolick spent (most of) 1998 to 2013 in the same essential seat

The Story was Brandi Carlile’s breakthrough second album, and the title track, written by her bandmate Phil Hanseroth, has turned

In 2007, while ghostwriting Waylon Jennings’ bio, producer Lenny Kaye heard Jessi Colter (Mrs. Jennings), sitting at the piano singing

Clipper ships were the FedEx of their day, the high-priced, high-speed shipping option for merchants who needed to get their

Jamaaladeen Tacuma, an original member of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, once said that the saxophonist’s theory of harmolodics—a place where

Long before Amazon’s takeover of the South Lake Union neighborhood caused Seattle to similarly ponder its existential fate, Singles emerged

Mark Lanegan has peppered the 33 years since his musical debut with equal amounts of wild abandon and measured wisdom.

Wavves have returned, minus the major label, with You’re Welcome, and if the endeavor has been working toward something, proper

It’s a crazy time, and chances are the song that’ll get the most attention here is the post-Trumpocalyptic “Delete And

Ray and Dave Davies, the estranged brothers from the Kinks, can’t escape one another. Whether by coincidence or coordinated marketing

For a band that makes intensely menacing music, the Black Angels are in a pretty comfortable position. The five-piece has