Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Arcade Fire’s “Everything Now”

Arcade Fire’s tightest and tersest album since 2004’s Funeral is by far its least ambitious, and the band is cool

September 26, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Matt Pond and his ever-rotating gang of collaborators return with their 12th album, a melancholy song cycle that drifts down

September 24, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Doldrums, the brainchild of Montreal denizen Airick Asher Woodhead, exists in the odd confluence of rhythmic EDM, soulful indie pop,

September 23, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Shabazz Palaces' third album, Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star, is out July 14. Just as he did back in

September 20, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Warren Haynes has offered thinly veiled political statements within his catalog to this point, but it’s difficult to disguise them

September 17, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

As far as exercises in futility are concerned, encapsulating a five-disc, 80-plus-song boxed set in 150 words ranks alongside trying

September 16, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

“I don’t speak their lan-guage/I don’t even try,” Ryan McPhun sings on “Pram Gangs.” He’s reacting to fatherhood and feeling

September 14, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Sweet Apple has always done what side projects are designed to do: provide a busman’s holiday for its members (Dinosaur

September 10, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania