Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Morrissey’s “Low In High School”

Steven Patrick Morrissey has become such a crank and a curmudgeon that it’s hard to tell when he’s being intentionally

If purist audiences in 1965 were gobsmacked by folkie god and acoustic maestro Bob Dylan going loud and electric, imagine

The challenge of following up the heartbreak of 2015’s Vulnicura with the spiritually renewed Utopia sounds effortless in the nimble

Racism and homophobia suck, but it took balls to face them both in mid-20th-century America. Two words out of Jackie

After a decade of steady growth and the massive success of Out Of Time, R.E.M. was in an enviable spot—and

MASSEDUCTION earns its orange. St. Vincent’s biggest, boldest, best album isn’t gonna shill for your attention. It’s just going to

February 27, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

At what point does a piece of recorded music—in whatever brown paper or pixel-fabricated package it’s delivered in—pass beyond “product”

February 25, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

This year Butthole Surfers, the grey eminences of psych/punk, are set to release their first new music in 17 years,

February 24, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania