Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Faith Healer’s “Try ;-)”

Cosmic Troubles, the 2015 debut from this Edmonton two-piece, charmed and arrested with its airy, ’60s-indebted jangle, casually perfect guitar

February 8, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

For a prolific musical project with nearly as many compilations as official releases, it makes sense that the Jazz Butcher—a.k.a.

February 6, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Attempting to pin down the last decade of peerless music of ineffable inspiration and sound that has arrived behind the

February 6, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Although it fit in with woozy, beloved contemporaries such as Grandaddy’s Sumday and Sparklehorse’s It’s A Wonderful Life, Flotation Toy

February 4, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

There are bands with a bit of history, and then there’s Antietam. Tara Key and Tim Harris founded the band

February 3, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

When it was released on the ESP-Disk label in 1967 (on the same day as Sgt. Pepper no less), One

February 1, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Lucinda Williams has recently done some of the greatest work of her long career. Both 2016’s The Ghosts Of Highway

January 30, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania