Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Who Is She?’s “Seattle Gossip”
With ’90s nostalgia already in full swing among those who were too young for all-ages shows the first time around,

Essential New Music: Unsane’s “Sterilize”
Aside from existing and surviving through the trials and tribulations that follow being a band for 29 years, Unsane’s second

Essential New Music: The Who’s “Tommy Live At The Royal Albert Hall”
The endless retirement tour and the never-done 50th anniversary of the Who have been the butt of jokes ever since

Essential New Music: R.L. Boyce’s “Roll And Tumble”
Como, Miss.’s R.L. Boyce delivers in droves with “the most important, honest to God Hill Country blues record made since

Essential New Music: King Khan’s “Murder Burgers”
To not hear King Khan belting witty lyrics over perfectly trashy R&B, either with nine-piece gang the Shrines or laying

Essential New Music: Faith Healer’s “Try ;-)”
Cosmic Troubles, the 2015 debut from this Edmonton two-piece, charmed and arrested with its airy, ’60s-indebted jangle, casually perfect guitar

Essential New Music: The Jazz Butcher’s “The Wasted Years”
For a prolific musical project with nearly as many compilations as official releases, it makes sense that the Jazz Butcher—a.k.a.

Essential New Music: Circuit des Yeux’s “Reaching For Indigo”
Attempting to pin down the last decade of peerless music of ineffable inspiration and sound that has arrived behind the