Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Jackie Shane’s “Any Other Way”

Racism and homophobia suck, but it took balls to face them both in mid-20th-century America. Two words out of Jackie

After a decade of steady growth and the massive success of Out Of Time, R.E.M. was in an enviable spot—and

MASSEDUCTION earns its orange. St. Vincent’s biggest, boldest, best album isn’t gonna shill for your attention. It’s just going to

February 27, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

At what point does a piece of recorded music—in whatever brown paper or pixel-fabricated package it’s delivered in—pass beyond “product”

February 25, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

This year Butthole Surfers, the grey eminences of psych/punk, are set to release their first new music in 17 years,

February 24, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

On the coattails of My Woman, Angel Olsen’s 2016 breakout LP, comes Phases, a collection of outtakes, b-sides and demos.

February 22, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Saicobab is the newest project of Yoshimio (a.k.a. Yoshimi P-We), who helms OOIOO and sings/drums in the Boredoms. Both Saicobab’s

February 20, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC