Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Tania Chen With Thurston Moore, David Toop, And Jon Leidecker’s “John Cage: Electronic Music For Piano”

The title of Electronic Music For Piano isn’t the only paradoxical thing about it. The score, which updates an earlier

There’s a crystalline, cold Nordic purity running through First Aid Kit that, combined with a streak of melancholic, autumnal folk/pop

For a record constructed in such an unconventional, informal manner, Yo La Tengo's There’s A Riot Going On is surprisingly structural

Even after almost 35 years, Yo La Tengo still comes across—in the best sense of the word—as amateur. Not hardened

“Feeling” is more than just the name of a song for Young Jesus. It’s a statement of intent. For almost

Most bands have a discography you can chart on a timeline. Bardo Pond’s is more like a delta, with tributaries

What manner of madness is this, combining reviews of leather-jacket brooders Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with nice-guy indie-rock journeymen Buffalo

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania