Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Pianos Become The Teeth’s “Wait For Love”

Pianos Become The Teeth aren’t suddenly all sunshine on Wait For Love, but they do feel somewhat lighter-chested. Continuing down

Have you ever said something and then, upon reflection, thought you could say it just a little better? Nowadays, the

For the past few years, Oakland’s Dick Stusso has been writing dark, apprehensive quasi-country scenarios, dwelling on the less savory

It’s difficult to really miss a band like the Get Up Kids. Sure, it’s been seven years since the band

Marisa Anderson’s devotions to music, social transformation and good old-fashioned adventuring have kept her on the road for a fair

Pre-release hype on the 12th full-length slab from these Boston kings of garage/R&B claimed it to be under the hypnotic

Oakland-based vocalist/ukuleleist Merrill Garbus is the most visionary white artist of the last decade, and such singular, hooky and uncomfortable

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania