Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Ironic or not, Fancey’s vision of ’70s disco on Love Mirage is cheesy fun. On the one hand, Todd Fancey,

There is the “eBay value” of what you inherit; and then there is its emotional value to you. One could

Not since Public Image Ltd.’s Paris Au Printemps have a band, a city, a season and a cause (well, kind

For the past nine years, Cleveland native Dylan Baldi has been working out his lo-fi power-pop angst as Cloud Nothings.

After a long period of self-released soundscapes and studio leftovers, Guy Blakeslee returned last fall with his first official Entrance

Every 10 years, another generation discovers the Creation, via periodic reissues such as this. Beginning as another ’60s beat group

After a 25-year career that began with a Mercury Prize shortlisting and a Brit Award nod for best new band,

Scott H. Biram has got kind of a corny shtick on paper: the old one-man band, all grizzly and gruff,

Though some things change, others stay the same. Across 22 years and multiple incarnations, Douglas McCombs (also of Tortoise, Eleventh

"Indie rock” has become such an amorphous and broad category that it’s nearly meaningless. But you could do worse than

Eric Matthews didn’t invent chamber pop, but he certainly set an impossibly high bar with his 1995 debut, It’s Heavy

On Sorority Noise’s “A Portrait Of,” singer Cameron Boucher mumbles a little anecdote about what the afterlife might be like—“and