Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

One of the reasons Pissed Jeans is a great band that (whether you know it or not) has released its

Across three LPs, Real Estate has cemented its status as a hallmark indie act, not through some buzzworthy new style

For more than a decade, Norwegian-turned-New-Yorker Sondre Lerche explored confessional singer/songwriter reveries, Burt Bacharach-tinted chamber pop and the kitchen-sink gamut

Since 1992’s Honey’s Dead, the Jesus And Mary Chain’s records have followed a certain formula: Waves of corrosive guitar distortion

After a decade of fronting the Ettes, and a little time filling in for Neko Case in the New Pornographers,

Music journalists like to ask unanswerable questions, and one of the most popular queries in our stringbag briefcases is, “Why

James Mercer has always been something of an old soul. On the Shins’ immortal 2001 debut Oh, Inverted World, he

Craig Finn’s writing style is vivid, character-driven and aphoristic. It’s what’s made the Hold Steady so rewarding over the years:

He’s now well into his fourth decade as a recording artist, yet the Modfather shows no sign of resting upon

For the last decade, singer/guitarist Emma DeCorsey has lived the rock ’n’ roll life, with all its giddy highs and

England’s British Sea Power has been cranking out anthemic alt-rock since the turn of the century with consistent if somewhat

As if its perpetual revolving door of membership weren’t confusing enough, on album number 16, Brian Jonestown Massacre main man