Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Iron & Wine’s “Beast Epic”

With 2011’s Kiss Each Other Clean and 2013’s Ghost On Ghost, Iron & Wine albums seemed to be on an

October 10, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood doesn’t get enough respect. Vocalist/bandleader Robinson is still distancing himself from the legacy of his old

October 8, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Like the Feelies, the Telescopes have a doughnut for a timeline. They started out in 1987 as a promising psych-pop

October 7, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Broken Social Scene albums have never been about raising the profiles of the group’s dozen-plus members. Though guitarist Kevin Drew

October 5, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

It’s no slight to claim that Painted Ruins contains strong trace elements of Radiohead circa OK Computer. Thom Yorke and

October 3, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

New Facts Emerge is the 32nd studio album by the Fall—an undeniable miracle, all things considered. And a micro-miracle inside

October 1, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Good songs may be hard to write, but sometimes the music just flows. It often seems like this is the

September 30, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

A new Randy Newman album is an event, something that only comes around once a decade. His latest begins accordingly,

September 28, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania