Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Growing up Beatles-ish came with a dilemma when post-breakup solo excursions came to call: Which Mop Top would you most

In a career dotted with perverse gestures, Bob Dylan’s recent busman’s holiday as a jazz/standard crooner is, superficially anyway, among

The Wolf brothers, Yoni and Josiah (but mostly the former), were always the mopey children of the lo-fi, bedsit, folksy,

Wire turns 40 this year. Any band with that many years and its own migratory festival could easily settle for

Over the last half-decade, through collaborations with Jessie Ware, Solange, Frank Ocean, SBTRKT, Drake and others, Sampha Sisay has probably

As Xiu Xiu is anything and anyone that wobbly, quivering singer/sound-sculptor Jamie Stewart wants (David Lynch’s music to Twin Peaks,

Your enjoyment of Pure Comedy very strongly depends on what you expect from a Father John Misty album in 2017.

The members of Spoon are masters of playing what’s not there. They have explored how space can sharpen an arrangement

The first “proper” album from this precociously prolific Chicago trans-genre polymath places him (at least for the moment) in the

Punk promised that anyone could do it, but it was no wave that cashed the check. For a while in

Matt North has a résumé that includes stints as a standup comic, an actor on Curb Your Enthusiasm and a

Ben Chasny, the singer/guitarist/sole consistent member of Six Organs Of Admittance, is hardly the first musician to strive to avoid