Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Langhorne Slim’s “Lost At Last, Vol 1”

Langhorne Slim has a striking tenor that imbues his songs with an aching sense of melancholy and uncertainty. On Lost

Hüsker Dü’s historical trajectory follows a rather neat three-act arc: four years of woodshedding over a series of singles, one

Jason Lytle’s debut album (reissued here exclusively on vinyl to celebrate its 20th anniversary) gets overshadowed in the wake of

No less an authority than Mudhoney’s Mark Arm has called U-Men a relic of the “old, weird Seattle,” and this

Steven Patrick Morrissey has become such a crank and a curmudgeon that it’s hard to tell when he’s being intentionally

If purist audiences in 1965 were gobsmacked by folkie god and acoustic maestro Bob Dylan going loud and electric, imagine

The challenge of following up the heartbreak of 2015’s Vulnicura with the spiritually renewed Utopia sounds effortless in the nimble

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania