Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
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Essential New Music: Jon Langford’s “Four Lost Souls”
Jon Langford releases albums at a feverish pace, whether under his own name or with one of his myriad bands,
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Essential New Music: The Smiths’ “The Queen Is Dead”
It’s not an exaggeration to suggest that Morrissey + Marr ranks right up there with Lennon/McCartney, the Glimmer Twins and
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Essential New Music: The Beatles’ “The Christmas Records”
Considering I’m writing this on the 37th anniversary of John Lennon’s death without realizing that it was the assassination’s destiny
Essential New Music: Cécile McLorin Salvant’s “Dreams And Daggers”
The irreproachably hip, fiendishly virtuosic Cécile McLorin Salvant continues her one-woman revitalization of the once-grand vocal-jazz tradition with another fine
Essential New Music: Dead Boys’ “Still Snotty: Young Loud And Snotty At 40”
1973 American punk rock was either the Rolling Stones in hell (Iggy And The Stooges circa Raw Power) or in
Essential New Music: LCD Soundsystem’s “American Dream”
The phenomenal news is that the first LCD Soundsystem album in seven years sounds tremendously, magnificently like an LCD Soundsystem
Essential New Music: Cults’ “Offering”
Cults’ 2011 debut was a bracing cross-pollination of early-’60s girl-group sass and arty New York cool. The duo of Madeline
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R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania
Essential New Music: Chris Bell’s “I Am The Cosmos”
If a pop masterpiece drops in the forest, does it make a sound? It took four years for “I Am
