Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Ariel Pink’s “Dedicated To Bobby Jameson”

L.A.’s Ariel Rosenberg gives great, ur-gauche pastiche; he remains a pop perfectionist and illusionist. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson reintroduces the

January 2, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Replacements’ “For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986”

Considered as the Replacements’ only professionally recorded full-length concert, For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986 would be noteworthy. Here’s the

December 31, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Dungen’s “Häxan-Versions By Prins Thomas”

While prog and dub are rarely discussed together, this album makes a pretty strong case for bridging the two aesthetics

December 30, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Jon Langford’s “Four Lost Souls”

Jon Langford releases albums at a feverish pace, whether under his own name or with one of his myriad bands,

December 28, 2017 / 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

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania