Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
Essential New Music: J. Roddy Walston And The Business’ “Destroyers Of The Soft Life”
A great deal can befall a man in a mere four years; degrees and diplomas can be earned in such
Essential New Music: Torres’ “Three Futures”
It’s no wonder that former PJ Harvey bandmate and producer Rob Ellis has chosen to work with Mackenzie Scott (a.k.a.
Essential New Music: The Weather Station’s “The Weather Station”
Tamara Lindeman may have a clear-toned, country-tinged voice that’s liable to swoop, Joni Mitchell-like, from murmuring conversational tones into airy,
Essential New Music: Various Artists “Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973”
The angura (“underground”) movement in Japan’s 1960s/1970s arts scene was, like the West’s counterculture, created by children whose parents’ generation
Essential New Music: Stars’ “There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light
“I don’t believe people ever change/But I change,” Torquil Campbell sings on There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light single
Essential New Music: Wolf Parade’s “Cry Cry Cry”
Seven years after taking an extended break, Wolf Parade returns with another album full of potential anthems. Inspired in part
Essential New Music: Dhani Harrison’s “IN///PARALLEL”
After 17 years of working on the periphery of the music business (e.g. RZA, Prince, his trio with Joseph Arthur
















