Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Flotation Toy Warning’s “The Machine That Made Us”

Although it fit in with woozy, beloved contemporaries such as Grandaddy’s Sumday and Sparklehorse’s It’s A Wonderful Life, Flotation Toy

February 4, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

There are bands with a bit of history, and then there’s Antietam. Tara Key and Tim Harris founded the band

February 3, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

When it was released on the ESP-Disk label in 1967 (on the same day as Sgt. Pepper no less), One

February 1, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Lucinda Williams has recently done some of the greatest work of her long career. Both 2016’s The Ghosts Of Highway

January 30, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Considering the results of the last presidential election and its attendant fallout, the times are ripe for a revitalization of

January 28, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

If 2014’s Morning Phase was surprising (and winning in every way) for its soft, supple melancholy—a distant cousin to Beck’s

January 27, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Neither as bracingly rude as the Sex Pistols nor as persuasively political as the Clash, the Jam didn’t translate Stateside

January 25, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Jeremy Enigk shouldn’t be a hidden gem. Not after four albums with the legendary Sunny Day Real Estate and a

January 24, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania