Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Roy Montgomery’s “Suffuse”

When the music business takes aim at you feet and says, “Dance,” some people cut a rug. Not Roy Montgomery;

August 20, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Listening to Foxing’s Nearer My God in broad daylight almost feels like you’re getting away with something. It’s a little

August 14, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Whitney Johnson is the sort of side person who makes any project sound better. For confirmation, check out her strings

August 10, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Whichever celestial body you apply it to, the morning star is that bright light you see in the sky just

Between his day job at a curator for the Alan Lomax Archive and his gigs accompanying Joan Shelley, Jim Elkington

The problem with drone rock is that sometimes a band bears down on the “drone” and forgets about the “rock.”

The binary name of this duo promises a focus on the essentials, and The Switch delivers. Singer/guitarist Kim Gordon and

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania