Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Jonathan Wilson’s “Rare Birds”

Jonathan Wilson is very good at a lot of things. Emerging as an auspicious talent in an already crowded Southern

Pulse/Quartet’s one-sheet is bogged down in minutiae and erudite discussion of the theory and instrumentation constituting the halves of minimalist

Oh, what whimsy J.D. Wilkes can pack into a svelte 10-song solo debut. The Legendary Shack Shaker has outdone himself

Based on the strength and maturity of the fifth album from vocalist/bassist Shannon Shaw and her Clams, every studio session

One of the most singularly affecting musical voices (literal and figurative) of the last 35 years, Tracey Thorn has often

It’s a tough lot, being the flagship band on a willfully obscure record label, but Refrigerator’s never taken the easy

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania