Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
The Velvet Underground’s John Cale: Some Velvet Morning
John Cale talks about his VU past and future Rather than being a man of rumination after 50 years in
Essential New Music: The Velvet Underground’s “The Velvet Underground”
Save for the rarity of its “lost” 1969 sessions, another repackaging of Lou Reed and John Cale’s now-canonical, dry-icy, holy-terror
Essential New Music: Grant-Lee Phillips’ “Widdershins”
Grant-Lee Phillips has now been making solo records for far longer than he served as the celebrated frontman of ’90s-era
Jack White: Schoolhouse Rock
Boarding House Reach not only shows off Jack White’s master’s-level skills as a musician but also lyrics that will make
Essential New Music: Jack White’s “Boarding House Reach”
Of the many would-be millennial “rock ’n’ roll saviors” kicking around in the early aughts, Jack White has done the
Essential New Music: Mary Gauthier’s “Rifles & Rosary Beads”
Where have all the soldiers gone? American battles once pitted brother against brother and accentuated the gap between parents and
Essential New Music: Keiji Haino + SUMAC’s “American Dollar Bill—Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look At Face On”
It had to happen. Keiji Haino has played with folk musicians and Faust, Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet and Merzbow. Sooner
















