Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Bitchin Bajas’ “Bajas Fresh”

It’s three years since this instrumental Chicago trio released its last proper album, but Bitchin Bajas has hardly been idle.

This album comes as a sad-yet-welcome surprise. Sharon Jones died in November 2016 after a recurrence of pancreatic cancer—although she

The 20th album in as many years from Oh Sees/Thee Oh Sees/the Oh Sees/OCS/etc. is what a late-night, fireside, gypsy-caravan

This reissue campaign for Manchester’s adventurous post-punk funkateers is probably more than a decade late for maximum impact. The kids

Langhorne Slim has a striking tenor that imbues his songs with an aching sense of melancholy and uncertainty. On Lost

Hüsker Dü’s historical trajectory follows a rather neat three-act arc: four years of woodshedding over a series of singles, one

Jason Lytle’s debut album (reissued here exclusively on vinyl to celebrate its 20th anniversary) gets overshadowed in the wake of

No less an authority than Mudhoney’s Mark Arm has called U-Men a relic of the “old, weird Seattle,” and this

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania