Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Smiths’ “The Queen Is Dead”

It’s not an exaggeration to suggest that Morrissey + Marr ranks right up there with Lennon/McCartney, the Glimmer Twins and

December 26, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Beatles’ “The Christmas Records”

Considering I’m writing this on the 37th anniversary of John Lennon’s death without realizing that it was the assassination’s destiny

December 25, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Cécile McLorin Salvant’s “Dreams And Daggers”

The irreproachably hip, fiendishly virtuosic Cécile McLorin Salvant continues her one-woman revitalization of the once-grand vocal-jazz tradition with another fine

December 24, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Dead Boys’ “Still Snotty: Young Loud And Snotty At 40”

1973 American punk rock was either the Rolling Stones in hell (Iggy And The Stooges circa Raw Power) or in

December 23, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: LCD Soundsystem’s “American Dream”

The phenomenal news is that the first LCD Soundsystem album in seven years sounds tremendously, magnificently like an LCD Soundsystem

December 21, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Cults’ “Offering”

Cults’ 2011 debut was a bracing cross-pollination of early-’60s girl-group sass and arty New York cool. The duo of Madeline

December 19, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Chris Bell’s “I Am The Cosmos”

If a pop masterpiece drops in the forest, does it make a sound? It took four years for “I Am

December 17, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania