Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The problem with making timeless albums is that when you follow them with pretty good ones, they’re given short shrift. The

It’s been six years since the Coral’s last album and what seems like a lifetime since the U.K. music press

1978-era arty Brit-post-punks the Monochrome Set—clanging guitarist Lester Square and nasal vocalist Bid—should’ve been contenders. Their Muswell Hillbillies-era Ray Davies

Since her 1992 debut Dry, PJ Harvey avoided repeating herself. While only 2007’s piano-based White Chalk seemed constrained by a willful

When she performs in Montreal art-pop juggernaut Arcade Fire, violinist Sarah Neufeld is one of a dozen-odd voices struggling to

Watching Soul Asylum hawk liner note shout-outs, Skype drum workshops, private shows, “original Dave Pirner artwork” and slots on the

Between uncompromising releases and his Tone Filth label, Minneapolis’ Justin Meyers has spent the past 13 years spray-painting his name

Alabama’s own Dan Sartain, after spending most of his career mining the darker and more dangerous edges of garage-infused rockabilly,

Homemade capos and invented tunings aside, Glenn Jones continues his reign as king of American Primitive Guitar. While we’re sure

As you might imagine, the first solo album from the …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

For the last dozen or so years, Montreal’s Besnard Lakes have been making epic, progressive shoegaze pop that shines with

Welp, it’s official: I’ve fallen the fuck off. Ten years ago, if you had put a record like Sirens on

Like poor, sainted Billy Pilgrim, Paul Burch has come unstuck in time. He’s turned into Jimmie Rodgers—either that, or Rodgers

I am not about to go down in history as the guy who had the hubris to give a 60-CD